A strong earthquake killed one person and injured at least 160 in central Japan on Sunday, demolishing houses, buckling roads, triggering landslides and cutting off water supplies to thousands of homes.
More than 1 300 people evacuated to shelters after 44 houses collapsed and about 200 others, mostly wooden with heavy tile roofs, were seriously damaged by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake, which struck at 9.42am (0h42 GMT), officials and media said. The focus of the quake - which was also felt in Tokyo - was 11km below the seabed off the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, about 300km west of Tokyo. |