Page last updated at 10:20 GMT, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:20 UK The Japanese city of Sendai had a lucky escape from Tuesday's earthquake, police and medical officials have said. No one died and only a few people were seriously injured in the magnitude 7.2 quake, which happened off the coast of northern Japan on Tuesday morning. Sendai was the worst hit by the tremor, but, even there, life was b