Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a new tsunami warning for the entire East Coast, following the declared immediately after the earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale happened this afternoon. The new alert was issued at 03:20 local time (12:20 hours from Mexico) and warns against "important" tsunami in the provinces of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the most affected by the earthquake, which caused hundreds of dead and missing.
Minutes later, another earthquake, of 6.6 magnitude on the Richter scale, occurred in the province of Nagano, with its epicenter in the city of Niigata. There a possible tsunami could bring waves over three feet, while in the extreme southeast of the archipelago is warning waves up to two meters.
Since the occurrence of the devastating earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, there have been constant aftershocks, up to 60 in the evening on Friday. Over a thousand people may have died from the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, according to estimates by the local agency Kyodo, after official sources indicate that at least 800 thousand homes have been destroyed in the province of Fukushima.
In the city of Sendai, about 350 kilometers north of Tokyo, the local authorities that have been found between two and three hundred dead bodies on the coast, while the official count speech, for now, 133 dead and 531 missing. While search efforts continue at dawn in the northeastern provinces, the government has sent a team to the Fukushima nuclear plant, where the earthquake caused problems with the ventilation system of the plant.
Although the government said the quake did not produce any radioactive leakage, the level of radioactivity in the building that houses the turbine of a reactor is high, as the pressure. The Japanese Minister of Economy, Banri Kaieda, said it is possible that in the current leakage can occur, but insisted that in any case be small.
Nearly three thousand people have been evacuated near the center, to which Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, is scheduled to visit early in the morning on Saturday and visited the devastated areas. 
Minutes later, another earthquake, of 6.6 magnitude on the Richter scale, occurred in the province of Nagano, with its epicenter in the city of Niigata. There a possible tsunami could bring waves over three feet, while in the extreme southeast of the archipelago is warning waves up to two meters.
Since the occurrence of the devastating earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, there have been constant aftershocks, up to 60 in the evening on Friday. Over a thousand people may have died from the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, according to estimates by the local agency Kyodo, after official sources indicate that at least 800 thousand homes have been destroyed in the province of Fukushima.
In the city of Sendai, about 350 kilometers north of Tokyo, the local authorities that have been found between two and three hundred dead bodies on the coast, while the official count speech, for now, 133 dead and 531 missing. While search efforts continue at dawn in the northeastern provinces, the government has sent a team to the Fukushima nuclear plant, where the earthquake caused problems with the ventilation system of the plant.
Although the government said the quake did not produce any radioactive leakage, the level of radioactivity in the building that houses the turbine of a reactor is high, as the pressure. The Japanese Minister of Economy, Banri Kaieda, said it is possible that in the current leakage can occur, but insisted that in any case be small.
Nearly three thousand people have been evacuated near the center, to which Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, is scheduled to visit early in the morning on Saturday and visited the devastated areas.
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