TOKYO, June 14 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked rural northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least two people, with media reporting as many as 10 missing including several buried alive at a hotspring hit by a landslide.

The quake, at 8:43 a.m. (2343 GMT Friday), was centred in Iwate, a sparsely populated area around 300 km (190 miles) north of Tokyo. More than 100 aftershocks also jolted the area.

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