Japan records 1.3-metre tsunami: official data

A tsunami 1.3 metres (4.3 feet) high reached a port in Japan’s northern Iwate prefecture at 1:52 pm (0452 GMT), Japan’s weather agency said.

The Japan Meteorological Agency kept its tsunami alerts that waves of up to three metres (9.8 feet) were expected along Japan’s Pacific coast, after a magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.