Major Earthquake hits Japan: magnitude 6.7 near the west coast of honshu

This is some breaking news about a major earthquake that has hit near Honshu in Japan; the release was made by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center.

They said that an earthquake occurred with a magnitude of 6.7 at 7:13 PM MDT, Jul 15, 2007 (Jul 16 at 10:13 AM local time in Japan) near the west coast of Honshu, about 245 km (155 miles) NNW of TOKYO or 70 km (45 miles) WSW of Niigata.

Some details may change as this has only just happened, you can get additional data and further analysis from the link below.
Read details via earthquake.usgs