KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - A 6.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan's northwest coast on Monday, killing at least five people and injuring more than 500. The area was plagued by a series of aftershocks, the strongest of which was magnitude 5.8.
The quake flattened hundreds of buildings and triggered a fire at a nuclear power plant.
Five people in their 70s and 80s - four women and one man - died after being crushed when buildings collapsed on them in the quake, said Takashi Morita, a spokesman for the National Police Agency in Tokyo.
"I was so scared - the violent shaking went on for 20 seconds," Ritei Wakatsuki, an employee of convenience store Lawson, told The …
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