Death toll from Japan earthquakes reaches 24
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A strong aftershock measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted north Japan&#39;s Niigata Prefecture Monday morning, leading the death toll from the three major quakes that hit the
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A strong earthquake jolted northwestern Japan on Monday, killing at least two people, injuring more than 200 and flattening houses, Japanese media and officials said.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Thousands of weary and frightened  residents in northern Japan were spending a second night in  shelters, cars or in the open Sunday after Japan's deadliest  earthquake in nine years killed at least 21 people.
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Japan was hit by strong aftershocks after 21 people died and more than 900 were injured in powerful earthquakes that struck within days of the country's worst typhoon in a quarter-century.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake killed at least three people in Japan on Monday, injured more than 500, flattened houses and started a small fire at the world's largest nuclear power plant.
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Rescue workers pulled 24 survivors from the wreckage of a mountain village in Taiwan Thursday after a torrent of mud and rock triggered by a typhoon buried the area, leaving 15 people feared dead.
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NAGAOKA, JAPAN - An earthquake shook Japan on Wednesday as rescuers dug out members of a family buried alive during a weekend earthquake.
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A powerful earthquake, followed by strong aftershocks, has rocked a wide area of Japan, causing at least two deaths and more than 100 injuries.
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OJIYA, Japan, Oct 24  - Overturned cars, crumbled homes and shattered roads greeted rescue workers Sunday after Japan&#39;s deadliest earthquake in almost a decade stunned residents used to bearing through the nation&#39;s frequent tremors.
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Strong aftershocks are still shaking northern Japan after the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 24 people.
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AFTERSHOCKS were felt in Japan last night, two days after the countryâs deadliest earthquake for nearly a decade claimed at least 23 lives.
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Japan yesterday began the task of clearing up after the biggest earthquake in almost a decade left 21 people dead and more than 2,000 injured.
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At least 18 people are believed dead and more than 14 hundred injured from an unprecedented series of powerful earthquakes in northern Japan.
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The quake, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, occurred 20km underground in Niigata prefecture, some 200km northwest of Tokyo. 23 October, and 39 people have died as a result of that.
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At least four people were killed andmore than 200 others injured in a series of powerful earthquakes in northwestern Japan, mainly in the Niigata Prefecture, on Saturday evening.
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An earthquake with a preliminary  magnitude of 5.6 shook northern Japan on Monday in the same  area where the country's deadliest quake in nine years killed  at least 23 people two days ago and injured more than 2,000.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade as the death toll jumped to 31.