On that fateful day, a series of tremors with the magnitude of 6 on Richter scale began at 1:59pm local time until the monstrous 7.44 quake finally hit at 5:02pm. The meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency issued a warning for 0.5 to 2-meter high tsunami waves predicted to make landfall 20 minutes later. The agency revoked the warning at 5:36pm based on the ‘observation of the official onsite’ who reported that the waves had e