TOKYO (AP) — Japan has issued tsunami alerts and urged evacuations following a series of earthquakes that started a fire and trapped people under rubble on the west coast of its main island. The earthquakes started on Monday afternoon, with one having preliminary magnitude of 7.6, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV warned torrents of water could reach as high as 5 meters, or about 16.5 feet, and urged people to flee to high land or the top of a nearby building as quickly as possible. People are trapped in buildings that collapsed in the quake, authorities said, and a fire has broken out in the city of Wajima.