Strong Japan quake leaves thirty-nine out of action, hits fashionable holiday resort

In city Prefecture´s far-famed Hakuba Village -- a preferred holiday resort that hosted a part of the 1998 Winter Olympic Games -- several homes were toppled and destroyed, native authorities aforesaid. Bird´s-eye footage by public broadcaster NHK showed homes reduced to debris.
Around thirty individuals were at bay within the folded village homes shortly when the quake, however were all saved, Jiji Press aforesaid.
The meteorologic agency warned robust aftershocks might still occur within the returning week.
TOKYO: a powerful half dozen.2 magnitude earthquake in central Japan left thirty-nine individuals out of action, seven seriously, and destroyed homes in a very fashionable holiday resort, the govt. aforesaid Sunday.

The quake affected at ten:08 pm standard time (1308 GMT) Saturday at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) at the geographical point, within the north of city Prefecture, northwest of national capital, consistent with the North American nation geologic Survey.There was no injury to the seven nuclear reactors at the sprawling Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in close Niigata prefecture as they need been off-line since 2011.