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A police officer controls traffic during a power outage following an earthquake in Tokyo, Japan. File photoTOKYO, Mar 17The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the northeast of Japan increased to three people, 194 people received injuries of varying severity, NHK TV channel reports. Earlier it was reported about two dead and 135 injured. A powerful earthquake occurred on March 16 in northeast Japan at 23.36 local time time (17.36 Moscow time). Its magnitude was originally estimated at 7.3, but was then revised to 7.4. The source lay at a depth of 57 kilometers in the Pacific Ocean near Fukushima Prefecture. Immediately after the earthquake, a tsunami threat was declared. Waves up to 20-30 centimeters high reached the coast of Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. The tsunami threat was completely removed by 0500 March 17 local time (2300 March 16 Moscow time). As of 09:00 Thursday, 20 repeated earthquakes of magnitude above 2.5 occurred in the region. As RIA Novosti was told at the Russian Embassy in Japan, there is no information about the affected Russians.There is no data on Russians affected by the earthquake in JapanAccording to the latest data, power outages are still observed in 135.7 thousand households served by Tohoku Electric Power, and in 24.7 thousand households served by TEPCO . More than 4,000 households in the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima remain without water supply. As a result of tremors, a highway in the city of Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture, was damaged. The road surface in Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture was also damaged. A low-rise residential building collapsed in Fukushima Prefecture. A rock collapsed onto a highway near Sendai Castle in Miyagi Prefecture. A powerful earthquake did not lead to emergency situations at nuclear power plants located in the region. In Japan, the operation of the cooling system at the Fukushima-2 nuclear power plant was restored