Tsunami Warning Lifted; Waves Reach Japan, Russia (ap)

Houses are flooded in seawater in a section of Kesennuma, northern Japan on Sunday Feb. 28, 2010. Japan, fearing the tsunami could gain force as it moved closer, put all of its eastern coastline on tsunami alert Sunday and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas to seek higher ground as waves generated by the Chilean earthquake raced across the Pacific at hundreds of miles (kilometers) per hour. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP – The tsunami from Chile’s deadly earthquake hit Japan’s main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. Hawaii and other Pacific islands were also spared.

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