5.6 QUAKE SHAKES JAPAN

TOKYO: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook northeast Japan early yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, two days after a powerful tremor triggered a tsunami near the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. There were no risks of seismic waves or immediate reports of damage from yesterday’s quake, which struck at 6.23am off Fukushima prefecture some 210km northeast of Tokyo, authorities said. The quake did not cause any fresh problems at the Fukushima facilities, public broadcaster NHK cited the plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power as saying. – AFP