08/04/2011 10:17
Aftershock shakes north-east Japan
A powerful aftershock has struck north-east Japan, a month after a violent quake led to a devastating tsunami, BBC reported.
Emergency crews said two people died and about 100 more were injured.
The reports said it had a magnitude of 7.4.
Water leaked out of spent fuel pools at the Onagawa nuclear plant in northeast Japan, but there was no change in the radiation levels outside the plant, operator Tohoku Electric Power said on Friday, according to Reuters.
It said water sloshed out of spent fuel pools in the plant's No.1, No.2 and No.3 reactors which had been shut down after the 9.0 magnitude quake on March 11, and had also leaked in three other locations in the No.3 reactor complex.