Hundreds of thousands still without power in northeast Japan after deadly earthquake
Hundreds of thousands of people in northeast Japan remain without power more than 10 hours after a powerful earthquake that killed at least four people.
A powerful earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.3, struck Japan's northeast coast on Wednesday, shaking buildings as far away as Tokyo, where it left hundreds of thousands without power, and reviving memories of a devastating quake 11 years earlier.
According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, at least four people died in the quake, and 94 others were injured.
Although Japanese officials said they expected most of homes will have supply restored later in the day, some 24,270 households serviced by Tohoku Electric Power Co in northeast Japan remained without electricity by 10:00 a.m. local time on Thursday.
Television footage showed the walls of a department store building collapsing to the ground and shards of glass scattered on the streets near the main train station in Fukushima City, about 60 kilometers west of the coastline.
"I heard the ground rumbling. Rather than feeling scared, I immediately remembered the Great East Japan Earthquake," said an official in the emergency department of the local government of Ishinomaki.
But no abnormalities were seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the cooling systems failed after the 2011 disaster, according to the plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
Japan sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
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