Japan on Monday expanded the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

A magnitude 7.1 tremor shook buildings in Tokyo and a wide swathe of eastern Japan on Monday evening, triggering a small tsunami alert.

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Tokyo: Japan was rattled by a magnitude-7.4 aftershock and tsunami warning on Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast.

A magnitude-7.1 aftershock, one of the strongest since the devastating earthquake of March 11, struck Japan on Thursday 215 miles (345 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo, resulting in warnings of a possible tsunami.

The quake was measured at a depth of about 25 miles and struck about 11.32 p.m.

The threat of a nuclear accident adds to Japan's misery after tsunami waves set off by a giant earthquake take their toll.
A TRULY three-dimensional natural disaster, partly traceable to man's imperfect mastery over the atomic world, struck high-tech Japan on March 11, tragically exposing the limitations of human civilisation itself.

The three dimensions were those of a horrific offshore earth

THE massive earthquake of March 11 that wreaked widespread devastation over a 500-kilometre-long stretch of the eastern, or Pacific, coastline of Japan is the largest-ever recorded in Japanese history. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred at 05-46 UTC/GMT (2-46 p.m.

After carrying out a complete review of its coastal nuclear sites in the wake of the tsunami-afflicted nuclear crisis in Japan, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has decided to set up tsunami alarms at all these sites that would link them up with relevant agencies including the Navy.

It may be recalled that such a network of tsunami alarms was set up after the Indian experience, which will

Tokyo/Fukushima: As Japan grappled with its worst atomic crisis in decades, premier Naoto Kan on Thursday said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant must be scrapped as radiation seeping into sea tested 4,385 times the legal limit, but authorities ruled out expanding the evacuation zone.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the Japanese capital, in the first trip by a world leader here s