A powerful earthquake struck central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and sparked a small tsunami along the coast.The magnitude-6.9 quake struck at 9:42 a.m. local time off the north coast of Ishikawa prefecture (state), Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The agency issued a tsunami warning urging people near the sea to move to higher land.
A small tsunami measuring 6 inches hit the shore 36 minutes later, the agency said. The warning was lifted after about an hour.
Lower intensity aftershocks struck the region throughout the afternoon. A temblor with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 hit at 6:14 p.m., but there was no tsunami danger, the agency said.
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