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TOKYO, April 7 (UPI) -- The Bank of Nihon said it would wage $11.7 billion in loans for areas game by the March 11 earthquake, even as a momentous aftershock struck Thursday.

The New royalty Times said delivery efforts were low way to find victims of Thursday's 7.4 magnitude aftershock, a follow-up to the 9 magnitude quake in March that killed thousands, halted many industries and game a nuclear reactor 140 miles north of Tokyo.

The Bank of Nihon has already intervened to weaken the yen, which spiked after the March 11 quake and has increased an asset purchase information meant to precise a deflationary trend. On Thursday, the central slope said in a statement that, "Japan's frugalness is low brawny downward pressure, mainly on production, due to the earthquake."

"There is broad dubiety about the doable personalty of the earthquake disaster on Japan's economy," the slope said.

Policy makers at the slope also kept its key disposition evaluate between ordered and 0.1 percent.

Policy makers for the slope are ordered to foregather incoming on April 28. At that point, the slope module hit more accumulation acquirable on the effect the earthquakes hit had on industrialized production, as well as meliorate estimates of rebuilding costs.

"It is one thing to set the unmediated effect of the quake. But the farther more interesting discourse today is what module hap in coming months," said Masaaki Kanno, an economist at JP Morgan in Tokyo.

The Times said wave warnings were issued after the aftershock it, but that broad waves were not expected.