She then planted them in fields in Miyagi.

然后将其种入宫城县稻田中。

Japan's meteorological agency says the quake struck off Miyagi Prefecture with a depth of 50km.

日本气象厅表示，地震发生在日本宫城县附近海域，震源深度为50公里。

Salt-tolerant rice would, though, be of much wider use than just restoring the paddies of Miyagi prefecture and its neighbours, the worst-affected part of the country, to full productivity.

耐盐大米的作用不仅仅是还原日本受伤害最大的宫城县内和附近的稻田。

The resulting specimens will then be sorted and the best (ie, those that have flourished in the saline soils of Miyagi's paddies) selected for crossbreeding, in order to concentrate desirable mutations into reproducible lines of plants.

为了使种子变异充分，并且适于种植生产，在宫城县盐地生长得最好的部分将再进行杂交培育。

The quake prompted the Meteorological Agency to issue a 1-meter tsunami warning to the Pacific coast of Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, but the warning was lifted Thursday morning, after only relatively small tsunami waves were observed.

地震发生后，日本气象厅向福岛县、宫城县沿海地区发出海啸警报，预计海啸高度为1米。3月17日上午，海啸警报被全部解除，解除前观测到的海啸高度相对震级来说不算高。