3 dead, over 180 injured after M7.4 quake hits northeastern Japan

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake off northeastern Japan late Wednesday left three people dead and more than 180 injured across 12 prefectures, and caused a high-speed shinkansen to derail.Workers on Thursday rushed to repair damage to railway tracks after the derailment, while about 34,000 homes in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures, where the temblor was strongly felt, remained without water.The Self-Defense Forces were dispatched for disaster relief in Fukushima and Miyagi to provide water service in areas where supply has been disrupted.A Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train derailed between …READ FULL ARTICLE