Powerful earthquake rocks Japan weeks from disaster anniversary

A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima, Japan earlier today just weeks before the 10-year anniversary of the deadly 2011 tsunami.

The 7.3-magnitude quake was felt strongly in Tokyo, but a tsunami warning has not been issued.

There are reports of about 50 people injured and almost one million homes are without power.

The quake struck near the epicentre of a 2011 earthquake which triggered a tsunami and killed over 18,000 people.

That tsunami caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - the world's most severe nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told reporters that evaluations were underway, including of the region's nuclear plants.

[Source: BBC]