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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EVC" data-source="post: 17414045" data-attributes="member: 125973">6.2 quake hits central Japan, flattens housesTOKYO: A strong 6.2 magnitude  earthquake struck central Japan late on Saturday (Nov 22), the US  Geological Survey said, causing houses to collapse and injuring at least  20 people, three seriously.The quake struck at 10.08pm local  time (9.08 Singapore time) at a depth of 10km at the epicentre, in the  north of Nagano Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, according to USGS.Television  footage showed flattened wooden houses, a mudslide blocking a road and  books toppled from shelves. Twenty-one people were trapped under debris  but have since been rescued, Kyodo news agency said, citing police.The Japan Meteorological Agency measured the quake at magnitude 6.8. No tsunami alert was issued."It's  quite a strong earthquake for an inland one," an official at the  Japanese agency told a midnight press conference. "We are worried about  the extent of damage to houses and buildings," he said, adding that  residents should also be on alert for possible landslides as mountainous  areas were the hardest hit.The quake toppled at least five  houses in Hakuba Village, Nagano Prefecture, local police said, injuring  two residents. No further details were immediately confirmed.According  to reports on public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo said 21 residents were  temporarily trapped under the houses but all of them, including the  injured people and a two-year-old toddler, were rescued. Electricity was  cut off in around 1,600 households.Nagano police said  several people sustained minor injuries in the quake. But police and  municipal officials said they were still scrambling to collect  information as they were operating in the dark.Yoshihide  Suga, the top spokesman for the central government, told reporters that  Tokyo was doing its best to get hold of the overall damage. "We'd like  to ask people in the affected areas to help each other and act calmly,"  Suga said in a televised remark.More than 20 aftershocks hit  Nagano following the first big strike Saturday. The meteorological  agency warned strong aftershocks could still occur in the coming week.  "It is fully possible that houses already damaged by the main quake  could be dealt further blows by aftershocks," the official at the press  conference said.There was no damage to any of the seven  nuclear reactors at the sprawling Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in  neighbouring Niigata prefecture as they have been off-line since 2011.  Other nuclear plants were also intact.Japan is hit by around a  fifth of the world's powerful quakes every year and sits at the  conjunction of several tectonic plates. A strong tremor revives memories  of the 9.0 earthquake in Mar 2011, which triggered a tsunami that  sparked the Fukushima atomic plant disaster and left 18,000 people dead  or missing.           - AFP/al/ec</blockquote>

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