Police officers search for missing people on the coast line in Namie, near the striken TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant on March 11, 2013
Hong Kong (AFP) - A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's Fukushima prefecture early on Saturday morning, the United States Geological Survey said.
The moderate quake hit 34 kilometres (21 miles) east of coastal Namie city in Fukushima prefecture, where a devastating quake-tsunami in March 2011 sparked a nuclear disaster and caused massive damage.
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