China removes tsunami warning
March 12th, 2011 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANIBeijing, Mar.12 (ANI): China has removed a tsunami warning after huge waves caused by a massive earthquake in Japan were reduced to less than 50 centimeters by the time they reached Taiwan.
Following the 8.9 magnitude quake that rocked Japan’s Honshu Island on Friday, China’s National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC) had issued a tsunami warning .
The center said it had decided to remove the tsunami warning considering the continuously abating height of waves before reaching the coast, Xinhua reports.
Liu Jie, a researcher with the China Earthquake Network Center said that the crustal movements of the earth had been active recently but, judging over a period of time, they were in a normal condition.
He said: ” Based on our research, the earth crust entered a comparatively active period after the earthquake in Indonesia in 2004.”
A 5.8-magnitude earthquake had hit Yingjiang China’s Yunnan Province on Thursday.
Denying any direct connection between the two earthquakes, Liu said: ” Japan lies on the Pacific Plate while Yunnan is on the Eurasian Plate,” adding that since scientific documents of earthquakes can only be traced back to a 110 years, the data does not provide help to scientists worldwide to reach a uniform understanding of the earthquake cycle. (ANI)
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