Workers at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in northern Japan earlier this month. Reports say Saturday's quake shook buildings at the plant. Photo: EPA Workers at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in northern Japan earlier this month. Reports say Saturday's quake shook buildings at the plant. Photo: EPA
Workers at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in northern Japan earlier this month. Reports say Saturday's quake shook buildings at the plant. Photo: EPA
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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits Japan’s Honshu island

US Geological Survey measures quake at 5.9 and reports say the strike shook buildings at the site of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant but no tsunami warning issued

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Reuters in Tokyo

Updated: 2:54pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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Workers at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in northern Japan earlier this month. Reports say Saturday's quake shook buildings at the plant. Photo: EPA Workers at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in northern Japan earlier this month. Reports say Saturday's quake shook buildings at the plant. Photo: EPA
Workers at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in northern Japan earlier this month. Reports say Saturday's quake shook buildings at the plant. Photo: EPA
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