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Japan has suffered a number of aftershocks since the devastating New Year's Day quake, which rattled the the Noto Peninsula on Honshu, Japan's largest and and most populous island

A woman in her 90s was found in the wreckage of a two-storey building in the town of Suzu, days after the 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Japan Sea coast on Monday, flattening towns on the remote Noto peninsula

Aftershocks continued to shake Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas just one day after a magnitude 7.6 caused widespread devastation to the area on Monday afternoon

Video and images on social media showed flattened houses, shoppers thrown to the ground by the tremendous seismic force and roads cracked to pieces after an enormous 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Japan today

Japan's Meteorological Agency said the rumble struck in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture just outside Tokyo at around 14.42pm local time (06.42am GMT)

Footage of the catastrophe shows an entire ocean climb 132ft in the air before coming crashing back down on residential areas in Fukushima Prefecture, which is around 160miles northeast of Tokyo

The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe was triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck the shores of Japan in 2011, creating towering tsunami waves that battered the plant