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Nhk has some more information - looks like the areas hardest hit will have been hit by now, with 3m high waves:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/weather-disaster/tsu...





No, estimated height has nothing to do with actual measurements

Can you elaborate?

Yes. The Japan Meteorological agency has a piss poor machine learning model that basically defaults to predicting 3 meters wave every time there is an earthquake in the sea and in the end it's usually a few dozens of centimeters. They lost all credibility by crying wolf every single time.



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