AP Top News at 9:08 p.m. EST

By AP
Monday, February 15, 2010

AP Top News at 9:08 p.m. EST

Tsunami spares US, takes aim at Japan

HONOLULU — With a rapt world watching the drama unfold on live television, a tsunami raced across a quarter of the globe on Saturday and set off fears of a repeat of the carnage that caught the world off guard in Asia in 2004. The tsunami delivered nothing more than a glancing blow to the U.S. and South Pacific, but Japan was still bracing for a direct hit and waves up to 10 feet high. Scientists worried the giant wave could gain strength as it rounds the planet and consolidates.

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