Japan earthquake leaves 40 injured
"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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