New magnitude 7.1 earthquake off Japan

The U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed that there has been a 7.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sendai, Japan.

The quake, originally measured as magnitude 7.4, was registered at 11:32 p.m. local time.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter is 41 miles east of Sendai, Japan, and 72 miles northeast of the country's beleaguered Fukushima nuclear complex. It shook buildings as far away as Tokyo, some 200 miles from the epicenter, the BBC reported.

A new tsunami warning issued for northeastern Japan has since been lifted, news agencies reported.

TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, said no new damage has been seen at the Fukushima nuclear complex.

Japan has been struggling to recover from last month's devastating magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has killed more than 10,000 people, with many thousands more missing. The much larger March 11th quake is the largest in Japan's recorded history.

(Map of new magnitude 7.1 earthquake epicenter that struck off the coast of northern Japan April 11, 2011: BBC.)