Images from a supermarket and the streets of Aomori Prefecture, after a major earthquake rocked Japan's northern coast late Monday, with the country's meteorological agency recording several tsunami waves reached the shoreline and local media reporting injuries. <br /><br />The magnitude 7.6 quake — which struck off Misawa on Japan's Pacific coast — reportedly forced residents to flee their homes and left thousands of people without power. <br /><br />NHK / AFP
