Quake in Japan roils New Year's Day as people flee, houses collapse

Japan's New Year's Day was roiled by a powerful quake in the central part of the country as locals ran for their lives and huddled together in the cold on Monday, while houses flattened, leaving some trapped beneath the rubble in what marked a dire start to the year."I'm glad that I'm alive somehow," Sumie Higashi, an 85-year-old in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, said as she recalled the tense moments following the magnitude-7.6 quake that hit the Noto Peninsula, which also triggered tsunami warnings along the Sea of Japan coast areas.She was in her bedroom when she heard a loud noise and the …READ FULL ARTICLE