Scores hurt as powerful quake hits Japan

A powerful earthquake rattled northern Japan, injuring more than 100 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of households.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the yesterday’s temblor, which had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, struck shortly after midnight, local time, at a depth of about 65 miles near the coast of Iwate, 280 miles north east of Tokyo.