Four people died after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan struck off the northern Japanese coast on Wednesday.
Today, residents in Fukushima and Miyagi are cleaning up their homes. Fixing fallen furniture and appliances back into place and scooping up broken dishes and windows.
At a hotel in Yabuki town in the Fukushima prefecture, where its wall was broken, its front door thrown out of place, and its dishes broken, employees were starting to clean up.
The Japan Meteorological Agency lifted its low-risk advisory for a tsunami along the coasts of Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures on Thursday.
Tsunami waves as high as 30 centimetres
Tsunami waves as high as 30 centimetres reached shore in Ishinomaki, about 390 kilometres northeast of Tokyo.
The agency upgraded the magnitude of the quake to 7.4 from the initial 7.3, and the depth from 60 kilometres below the sea to 56 kilometres.
The region is part of an area devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami 11 years ago that caused nuclear reactor meltdowns, spewing massive radiation that still makes some parts uninhabitable.
7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters on Thursday morning that four people died during the quake and the cause of their deaths are being investigated, while 107 others were injured.
A man in his 60s in Soma city died after falling from the second floor of his house while trying to evacuate, and a man in his 70s panicked and suffered a heart attack, Kyodo News reported earlier.
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