Small tsunami hits Japan’s remote Izu islands after importance five.9 earthquake

A tsunami of 50 cm (1.6 toes) reached Hachijo island, one of the Izu islands, approximately 40 minutes after the earthquake
TOKYO: Japan’s remote Izu islands south of Tokyo have been hit via a small tsunami on Tuesday without a instant reviews of harm, after a significance-five.Nine earthquake occurred near an unpopulated island farther south inside the Pacific Ocean.

A tsunami of fifty cm (1.6 ft) reached Hachijo island, one of the Izu islands, about forty mins after the earthquake, in keeping with the Japan Meteorological Agency.
No harm from the tsunami or the earthquake has been confirmed, public broadcaster NHK mentioned.

The meteorological enterprise formerly said citizens of Izu and Ogasawara islands ought to be prepared for a tsunami as excessive as 1 m (three.3 toes) hitting the coast.

No most important tremor changed into determined for the reason that earthquake passed off undersea near the unpopulated Torishima island about six hundred km (370 miles) south of Tokyo, the agency delivered.

The Izu islands, together with the even extra faraway Ogasawara islands farther south, have approximately a dozen inhabited islands and a combined population of about 24,000 as of closing year, consistent with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which covers the regions.