TOKYO, March 12, Kyodo
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck a wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan including Tokyo on Friday, triggering dozens of fires and a massive tsunami that swept away houses, cars and ships and killed hundreds of people.
The 2:46 p.m. earthquake on March 11 was the strongest recorded in the quake-prone archipelago by the Japan Meteorological Agency, the governmental agency said, with its magnitude surpassing the 7.9 registered in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Tokyo and its vicinity, which killed more than 100,000 people.
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Live coverage of Japan’s earthquake provided at “TV Japan” cable channel
24 hours Japanese programming channel “TV Japan” will be unscrambled until March 17 to provide a live news coverage of the earthquake and tsunami disaster affecting the Northern part of Japan since early Saturday morning in Japan time.
All news coverage on TV Japan is delivered directly from NHK aka Japan Broadcasting Corporation.
Detailed information about the temporary free access to the TV Japan channel can be seen on the website: www.tvjapan.net
Announced by NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc.