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Workers At Fukushima Plant Evacuate As Quake Near Russia Sparks Tsunami Alert

Workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan were evacuated Wednesday after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake off Russia's far east triggered tsunami warnings around the Pacific.

Workers At Fukushima Plant Evacuate As Quake Near Russia Sparks Tsunami Alert
Passers-by watch a television broadcast of a tsunami warning, outside a gaming shop in central Tokyo.

Workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan were evacuated Wednesday after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake off Russia's far east triggered tsunami warnings around the Pacific.

"We have evacuated all workers and employees" at the Fukushima Daiichi plant -- which went into meltdown after being hit by a tsunami in 2011 -- a spokeswoman for plant operator TEPCO told AFP, adding that "no abnormality" had been observed at the site.

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