At least 1 dead, dozens injured as M7.4 quake hits northeastern Japan

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit off northeastern Japan late Wednesday, leaving at least one person dead and dozens injured and causing a high-speed shinkansen train to derail.<READ HERE FOR UPDATES>The 11:36 p.m. quake also prompted the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue a 1-meter tsunami warning to the Pacific coast of Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, but the warning was lifted Thursday morning after only relatively small tsunami waves were observed.Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters early Thursday that there have so far been no abnormalities found at nuclear plants in …READ FULL ARTICLE