Strong quake jolts north Japan, one death reported


  • World
  • Saturday, 14 Jun 2008

TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 jolted northern Japan on Saturday, with Japanese media reporting one person killed in a landslide and four badly hurt.

The quake, at 8:44 a.m. (2344 GMT), was centred in a rural area around 300 km north of Tokyo, where buildings were rocked by the tremor.

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