A powerful 6.9 magnitude quake rattled northern Japan Sunday evening, followed by several aftershocks, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

Japan experienced two small tsunamis on Sunday minutes after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake jolted a Northern Pacific region affecting parts of the nation.

Northeastern Japan is prone to earthquakes, including a triple disaster of a quake, tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, just south of Iwate, in March 2011, that killed nearly 20,000 people, ...