The quake was centered in Iwate, a sparsely populated area around 300km north of
At least four people were buried in a landslide at a hot spring resort in Kurihara city in hard-hit Miyagi prefecture, TV Asahi reported, though it was unknown whether they were dead.
Three more were missing at a work site after another landslide in Kurihara, Kyodo news agency said, adding that more than 100 people were hurt.
Water containing a small amount of radiation leaked within a Tokyo Electric Power Co nuclear power facility in the region, but there was no leakage outside, a spokesman for
The energy released by the quake was far less than in the case of the magnitude 7.9 earthquake that hit southwestern
Earthquakes are common in
In October 2004, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck the
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