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Tsunami hits Japan after strong quake, nuclear plant briefly disrupted

Several thousand people along the coast evacuated or were told to evacuate. A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a tsunami that hit the same region devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011. The earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo, had a magnitude of 7.4, the Japan Meteorological Service said, and was centered off the […]