Sunday 16 June, 2019
With still many unaccounted for one news agency says the death toll is expected to rise above 1,000 people.
Reports that scientists had established a link between the activities of the sun and moon with the today’s Pacific tsunami have been dismissed by Irish astronomers.
In video: how tourists and the residents of Japan experienced today’s earthquake.
Cities, towns and farmland seriously damaged by the 8.9 magnitude quake today, which then triggered tsunami.
Officials at the Department of the Taoiseach and Department of Foreign Affairs have so far made no official comment on the matter.
Indonesia and Guam have both lifted their tsunami warnings, after waves of just 10 centimetres hit the eastern Indonesian coast.
Weather centres around the Pacific rim show trajectory of deadly wave.
A volcano has erupted in Indonesia, just hours after an earthquake in Japan created a Pacific-wide tsunami.
People in the areas affected by the Pacific tsunami have uploaded photographs on social networking sites.
THE DEATH TOLL in the Japanese earthquake disaster now stands at 60, the Kyodo News Agency has reported.
Of the fatalities, 26 people died in Iwate Prefecture as a result of the quake or in the tsunami, while one or more deaths were reported in prefectures including Fukushima, Miyagi, Tokyo, Ibaraki, Chiba, Kanagawa and Tochigi.
The Pacific tsunami has hit Taiwan causing minimal damage – it is due to hit the vulnerable Indonesia islandssoon.
Map shows how shallow the focus of earthquake is – red and orange spots denote shocks less than 25km from the surface.
The low lying Pacific islands may be swept over as a powerful tsunami hits the region – meanwhile Indonesia is bracing itself, as warnings indicate it will be the first area to be hit after Japan.
AT LEAST 26 people have now been reported dead in today’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake, which struck off the northeast coast, sparking a massive tsunami, according to Japan’s meterological agency. Three of the dead were crushed to death when their houses collapsed in Ibaraki prefecture, Al Jazeera reports.
Emergency services are fighting at least 44 fires across the country.
Meanwhile, a small tsunami is expected to hit Indonesia in the next hour. More to come.
CCTV footage records Sendai airport being submerged by the tsunami.
Map shows the extent of earthquake activity – the bigger the square, the bigger the quake.
A 10 metre high tsunami has struck north-eastern Japan after a massive earthquake.
TODAY IS FATHER’S Day, a day where we can all collectively appreciate who our dads are, or who they were.
It can often be commercialised and an expensive day for some; others may feel they want to think of their father in their own way, without pressure to do so.
This morning we’re asking, will you be marking Father’s Day in some way?
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