Six Missing After Landslide

Six people were reported missing Friday after an earthquake triggered a landslide in a resort area near Tokyo that has been rattled by more than 8,600 quakes in a week.

Friday’s quake had a magnitude of 5.6, the strongest to hit the Izu peninsula 60 miles south of Tokyo. It was followed about an hour later by another 4.8-magnitude jolt.

Firefighters and police were searching for six people reported trapped on Kozu Island, about 110 miles south of Tokyo.

The Izu peninsula, a hot spring resort, lies on a key tectonic plate near an active undersea volcano that erupted in 1989 causing no major damage.