Houses engulfed in landslide after powerful quake hits Hokkaido
REUTERS | The Asahi Shimbun
September 6, 2018 at 08:00 JST
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A road in Sapporo is cracked on Sept. 6. (The Asahi Shimbun)

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.7 on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido caused a landslide that engulfed houses early on Thursday, injuring and trapping a number of people and cutting power in several areas.

A landslide along a long ridge in the rural town of Atsumi could be seen in aerial footage from public broadcaster NHK. Some 10 people had been taken to hospital with injuries, one of them serious, it said.

There were widespread power outages and blocked roads, NHK said, but no early reports of deaths. A man suffered cardiac arrest after falling down the stairs, local media reported.

The quake, which struck at 3:08 a.m., posed no tsunami risk, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. The U.S. Geological Survey said it struck some 68 km southeast of Sapporo, Hokkaido's main city.