Deadly aftershocks rattle Japan

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Tokyo (CNN) - at least six people were killed, as an earthquake magnitude 6.4 Japan struck Tuesday morning, said a local fire department.

The six were killed when a landslide triggered by the quake said fire brigade of the city three houses in Iwaki, buried. Three people were rescued and taken to the hospital, and fire, which officials who believed an unknown number of others, to catch are to save, the Department said.

The earthquake in about 8:08 am Tuesday (7:08 pm Monday ET), according to the US Geological Survey, coined. He had a depth of about eight miles (8 km) and was centered East-Southeast of Tokyo about 77 km.

Monday night, one person was killed in Iwaki and several others were caught when a powerful 6.6 earthquake, landslides triggered said the fire brigade. It was exactly a month after the country's devastating 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami.

One-month anniversary of the disaster

The earlier quake was about 100 miles (164 km) northeast of Tokyo, and about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of the verkrüppelten nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi in accordance with the US Geological Center survey.

The landslides in Iwaki buried three houses. Police in Fukushima Prefecture initially reported that four people have been caught. The fire brigade of Iwaki said later more than four people have been caught, but the exact number was unclear.

Authorities were trying to rescue them. Their condition was not immediately known, was announced by the police.

The earthquake caused a tsunami.

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Workers at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi, which has suffered under cooling leaks since earthquakes and tsunami, briefly evacuated on 11 March but soon in their efforts to the troubled plant cool resume problems and radiation.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan delayed a planned press conference due to an earthquake, his Office said. The Government wants to handle the immediate emergency before with a press conference, the Office said.

The Tokyo electric power company said 220,000 households and businesses in Fukushima without power after Monday's quake were.

The "nuclear Renaissance" was not the

Japan was killed hit earthquake and subsequent tsunami, at least 13,116 people with hundreds of aftershocks since the March 11. More than 14,000 remain missing.CNN's contributed Junko ogura on this report

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