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Several bullet train services linking Tokyo to northern and northwestern Japan were suspended.

The earthquake, which left fissures 3 feet wide in the ground along the coast, hit shortly after 10 a.m. local time and was centered off Niigata state. Buildings swayed 160 miles away in Tokyo. Sirens wailed in Kashiwazaki, a city of about 90,000, which appeared to be hardest hit.

Four women and three men -- all either in their 70s or 80s -- were killed, according to the National Police Agency in Tokyo and NHK, which reported more than 800 people were hurt. There were no immediate details on the eighth reported death.

Japan's Meteorological Agency measured the quake at a 6.8 magnitude. The U.S. Geological Survey, which monitors quakes around the world, said it registered 6.7. Near midnight Monday, another 6.8-magnitude quake hit off Japan's west coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

asso said a state patrolman told him to evacuate, adding, "I started to panic a little bit. I was just hoping that was the end of it."

A company statement said the leak had stopped and that there had been no "significant change" in the seawater under surveillance and no effect on the environment.