A fresh earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale struck the north-east coast of Japan on Monday morning, just over a couple of weeks after a magnitude 9 quake and accompanying tsunami devastated the region.
The quake struck at about 07:23 local time some 67 miles east of the port city of Sendai, which has already been devastated by the earlier quake and tsunami. There have been no reports of immediate causalities or damages from the latest quake.
Though the quake prompted a warning of possible tsunami of 18 inches in the Miyagi prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency later lifted that advisory.
The latest quake comes after a powerful earthquake of 8.9-magnitude struck north-east of Japan on March 11, triggering a tsunami that killed thousands and caused extensive damage across the northern regions of the country. Japan has been struck by dozens of aftershocks since then.
The March 11 quake and tsunami left at least 10,000 people dead and destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of homes. Japanese authorities have since expressed fears that more than 18,000 people may have been killed in the disaster.
Japanese government has announced that it would cost up to 25 trillion yen ($309 billion) to reconstruct the country in the wake of the devastation. The estimate is about six per cent of Japan's economic output in 2010 and is expected to lower the country's growth by at least 0.5 per cent this year.
In addition to the widespread damages caused by the quake and the tsunami, Japan is also struggling to avert a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, located some 140 miles north of Tokyo.
The plant's cooling system collapsed soon after the disaster struck, causing the reactors at the plant to overheat. The plant has already been rocked by a series of explosions since then, prompting fears of a nuclear meltdown.
Engineers have since restored power connection to the plant and are presently attempting to activate the plants equipments for cooling down the reactors to avoid a nuclear meltdown. They are also trying to prevent radiation leaks at the badly-damaged plant.
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