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The American California and Oregon coasts are just now being upgraded to *warning* from *watch*. That means evacuations will be starting -- the buoy systems are not giving us happy data.
The original quake is currently assessed at 8.9 -- the fifth strongest in recorded history. Earlier estimates were a bit lower. The first aftershock was 7.something.
I have friends and distant relatives in several locations near Sendai and that region -- but I hope everyone over there got as much warning as they could.
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