A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook Japan’s northeastern coast on Wednesday night, rattling areas devastated by the 2011 quake and plunging more than 2mn households in Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures into a power blackout.
The quake was felt strongly in Tokyo where buildings swayed for over a minute. State broadcaster NHK said a high-speed bullet train carrying 96 passengers had been derailed, but that there had been no injuries.
The initial quake was followed by a powerful aftershock, and the country’s meteorological agency warned of more to come. At around 1am on Thursday, reports of a small number of injuries began to emerge from cities and towns in the affected area.
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