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Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known as “Baby 81” is now a 20-year-old dreaming of higher education

Basant was born during the Tsunami calamity in the year 2004 in National Zoological Park, New Delhi, and was brought to Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad as part of animal exchange programme in 2009.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake registered magnitude 7.1 and was centred in waters off the eastern coast of Japan's southern main island of Kyushu at a depth of about 30 kilometres (18.6 miles).

A red alert for tsunami has been issued after the earthquake.

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Between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Monday, tsunamis of a smaller scale were also observed along the east coast

Central Japan may experience earthquakes with maximum intensity on its seven-tier scale system in the coming week, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Monday.

Torrents of water could reach as high as 5 meters and authorities urged people to flee to high land or a top of a nearby building as quickly as possible, according to NHK.

The Japan Meterological Agency reported quakes off the coast of Ishikawa and nearby prefectures shortly after 4 p.m., one of them with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6.

The earthquake struck at 10:37 p.m. at a depth of 32 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey

The JMA, as per Xinhua news agency, stated that the tsunami may reach up to one meter in Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, and the prefectures of Kochi, Chiba, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima.

A major mock tsunami exercise titled ‘IOWave23’ along the Indian Ocean was conducted by Hyderabad-based INCOIS in collaboration with NDMA in which three major countries including Australia, India and Indonesia participated.

The earthquake occurred at 10:52 a.m. local time at a depth of 50 km, and was epicentred at off Ibaraki at a latitude of 36.5 degrees north and a longitude of 140.8 degrees east.

7.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the country's Kermadec Islands region with a depth of 49 km at 12:41 p.m. local time, Xinhua news agency reported.

“Based on historical earthquake and tsunami data, Tsunami Threat does not exist for India. INCOIS will monitor sea level changes near the epicentral region and report in case of tsunami threat,” INCOIS in its special bulletin said.

Tokyo: A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory and plunging more than 2 million homes in the Tokyo area into darkness. The region is part of northern Japan that was devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami 11 years ago […]

New Delhi: The Government of India extends immediate relief assistance of USD 200,000 to support relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction efforts in the Kingdom of Tonga in the wake of Tsunami, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed on Tuesday. “As a close friend and partner under the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) and as […]

Hyderabad: In the early hours of Tuesday, an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 on the Richter scale hit Flores Sea in Indonesia, roughly 4,300 km away from the Bay of Bengal. Within minutes of Indonesia issuing a local Tsunami warning, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Sciences (INCOIS), the Hyderabad-based Indian tsunami warning agency issued a […]

Japan’s decision to release over one million tonnes of contaminated water from its destroyed nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has upset many

A video footage showed sea waters with the height of less than one metre entering coastal areas in Maluku Tengah district, triggering panic among residents.