IWAKI, Japan—More than 100 people were injured and trains halted over a wide swathe of northeastern Japan on Sunday after the region was jolted by a major earthquake in the same area as the 2001 Fukushima quake that set off a tsunami nearly 10 years ago. The 7.3 magnitude quake struck shortly before midnight Saturday and cracked walls, shattered windows and set off a landslide in Fukushima, the area closest to the epicentre. The quake shook buildings in the Japanese capital Tokyo hundreds of miles away. Though hundreds of thousands of buildings lost electricity just after the quake, which struck at 11:08 p.m. local (14:08 GMT), by the next morning power had been restored to most. Several thousand households remained without water, though, and residents lined up with plastic jugs to receive water from trucks. At least 104 people were injured, NHK national television said, including several who suffered fractures, …
IWAKI, Japan—More than 100 people were injured and trains halted over a wide swathe of northeastern Japan on Sunday after the region was jolted by a major earthquake in the same area as the 2001 Fukushima quake that set off a tsunami nearly 10 years ago. The 7.3 magnitude quake struck shortly before midnight Saturday
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