TSUNAMI IS EXPECTED TO HIT SOUTHERN JAPAN

TOKYO – Japanese officials issued a tsunami warning Sunday for several small islands after a strong earthquake shook an area off the country's southern coast.

• The Meteorological Agency said the earthquake hit at 3:10 p.m. (0610 GMT) and registered magnitude 6.6. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it at 6.4. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
• The Japanese agency said the tsunami was expected to be about 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) high.
• The quake hit 69 miles (110 kilometers) off the southern coast of Miyakojima island, in southern Japan, at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers), it said.
• The small island is about 1,120 miles (1,800 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo.
• Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. In 1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake in the western port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people.

Source: AP