A strong quake hit near Sakhalin island on Thursday, killing two people in a Russian fishing village and generating small tsunami waves that hit northern Japan. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4, struck at 0238 GMT on the southern tip of Sakhalin, just north of Japan, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency. Viktor Beltsov, a spokesman for the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, told The Associated Press that one woman died and two others were injured when the roof of a Palace of Culture collapsed in the small port town of Nevelsk. A man in Nevelsk died of a heart attack.