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A strong earthquake has shaken Taiwan, damaging buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on Japanese islands.
Officials initially cautioned that waves might reach 16 feet after the New Year's Day quake. At least three deaths have been reported.
Norio Kimura shares the heartbreaking story of losing his 7-year-old daughter after the 2011 earthquake in Japan's Tohoku region.
The quake hit near Fukushima, where buildings shook violently.
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Although the hospital wasnt hit by the tsunami, the sight of the city from the top floor completely changed in front of her eyes as 1,522 households were swallowed by the waves.
Twenty-one beaches on the Pacific coast of Peru were contaminated.
New Zealand and Australia each sent military transport planes that were carrying water containers, kits for temporary shelters and generators.
Unlike other tsunamis that have hit disaster-prone Indonesia following large earthquakes, Saturdays big waves blasted ashore at night without warning.
The agency's website is dormant and it's operating with a skeleton crew, according to documents.
Waves hit the coast around the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra on Saturday.
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