TOKYO, Japan - Immediately after Typhoon Roke buffeted Tokyo with strong winds and rain, resulting in the deaths of at least six people, a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Wednesday just an hour after.The earthquake struck northeastern Japan just south of Fukushima, where an earthquake and tsunami crippled a complex of nuclear plants in March, according to ABC News.
The powerful typhoon made landfall in the main island of Japan, forcing the evacuation of more than a million people.- Police and local media reported that the six people were dead or missing after being swept away by rivers swollen with rains from Typhoon Roke. Nearly 260,000 households in central Japan were without electricity, and authorities called for more than a million people to be evacuated in central and eastern Japan.
The storm, packing sustained winds of up to 144 km/h, made landfall in the afternoon near the city of Hamamatsu, about 200 kilometres west of Tokyo.- The centre of the fast-moving storm passed just north of the capital early Wednesday evening, and headed toward the northeastern region of Tohoku devastated by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake.
- The typhoon grazed the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, where engineers are still struggling with small radiation leaks due to tsunami damage. They expressed relief that Typhoon Roke's driving winds and rains caused no immediate problems there other than a broken security camera.
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said just over one million people have been ordered or advised to evacuate across the country due to fear of flooding or mudslides triggered by the typhoon.The city of Nagoya temporarily called off an evacuation warning for 880,000 people when swelling in a major river subsided, but officials said the warning could be reissued if conditions warranted.
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