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Japan earthquake leaves 40 injured

India Blooms News Service | | 23 Nov 2014, 09:30 pm
Tokyo, Nov 23 (IBNS): At least 40 people were injured in Prefecture after an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale hit central Japan on Saturday, media reports said on Sunday.

"Injuries, including broken bones suffered by a man and a woman, were reported mostly in the city of Nagano and Hakuba village, while more than 450 people spent the night in evacuation shelters in the vicinity, following a quake with a revised magnitude of 6.7 that struck at 10:08 p.m. Saturday," Kyodo News reported.

It said, " No damage was reported at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in neighboring Niigata Prefecture, according to the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co."

The epicentre of the quake was located at 36.7 degrees northern latitude and 137.9 degrees eastern longitude at Nagano-ken Hokubu region, the Japan Meteorological Agency had sad on Saturday.

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