Strong quake shakes Japan's Fukushima

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook north-east Japan's Fukushima prefecture, home to a crippled nuclear power plant, early Sunday, but there was no risk of tsunami, seismologists said. Local police said they had no immediate reports of casualties or major damage from the tremor which hit at 3:54am (1854 GMT Saturday), although they were still collecting information.
The quake was centred around 100 kilometres (60 miles) south-south-east of Fukushima city, Japan Meteorological Agency and the US Geological Survey said, at a depth of about 40 kilometres.