Magnitude-7.1 quake kills one, injures over 250 in Japan

Tokyo - At least one person died and more than 250 were injured in a magnitude-7.1 earthquake that struck north-eastern Japan overnight, news reports said Friday.
Local officials had reported four people had been killed but later said two of the four deaths were not related to the quake. The fourth case was being investigated, Jiji Press agency reported.
The Meteorological Agency said the epicentre of the quake, which took place at 11:32 pm (1432 GMT) Thursday, was at a depth of about 40 kilometres off Miyagi prefecture.
The agency revised the magnitude down from an initial reading of 7.4.
Thursday's quake was believed to be an aftershock of the March 11 magnitude-9 quake that struck the same region. It was the biggest aftershock of the strongest quake ever recorded in Japan, the agency said.