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Tsunami warnings lifted across the Pacific allowing millions to return home

A man prepares to surf from Heisaura Beach in the city of Tateyama in Chiba prefecture after the tsunami advisory was lifted in Japan on Thursday [Philip Fong/AFP]

Japan’s weather office has lifted a tsunami advisory imposed a day earlier, becoming one of the last countries to rescind the emergency order after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit Russia’s Far East.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a statement lifting the advisory on Thursday, as fears of a deadly disaster subsided across the Pacific, including the United States’s West Coast and several Latin American countries, allowing millions to return to their homes.

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