to shake.

Authorities in Japan issued a tsunami alert, but later lifted it.

The Pacific tsunami warning centre said no widespread alert had been generated.

Tohoku-Electric Power Co said power supply has been cut to some 220,000 households in Iwaki city, Fukushima prefecture, and other municipalities following the earthquake.

Media reports said a car had been buried in a landslide set off by the quake and several people injured in separate incidents, but this could not immediately be confirmed.

The quake hit at 5.16pm (6.16 AEST), as Prime Minister Naoto Kan prepared to deliver a live address to the nation on Monday to mark one month since Japan’s worst quake in recorded history.

He postponed the speech and urged emergency workers to do all they could to save lives in the aftermath of theGive an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters and they will type the works of Shakespeare. Give 100,000 monkeys a single Game Boy running Pokemon Red and what you have is a brilliant social experiment.

Twitch Plays Pokemon " uses Twitch.tv to live stream an emulated version of Pokemon Red that is played by translating messages sent in Twitch's chat system to commands on the virtual Game Boy. Post "left" to the chat, and 20 to 40 seconds later (due to the lag) the player moves left. Likewise with other commands. What's incredible is that after tens of thousands of players have sent thousands of messages every minute to the game, they have made significant headway: battles won, gym badges awarded, and Pokemon trained. Even in