Several strong earthquakes hit northwestern Japan; 7 dead, 500 ...
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A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks rattled northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 700 as buildings crumbled, two trains were derailed and roadways were torn apart.
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A strong earthquake jolted the  northwestern Japanese area of Niigata on Monday, the Japanese  Meteorological Agency said. The preliminary magnitude was 6.6.
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A magnitude 5.7 earthquake rocked northern Japan late Thursday, weeks after a powerful tremor killed 39 people and injured thousands more.
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A powerful earthquake has rocked northern Japan, injuring 13 people, in a new sign of seismic activity a month after the country&#39;s deadliest tremor in a decade.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 and several aftershocks hit northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 250 while knocking
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TOKAMACHI, Japan  - A powerful earthquake and  strong aftershocks rocked northern Japan, killing at least six  people, injuring more than 500 while knocking out power and  phone services and forcing thousands to evacuate, media said.
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Japan&#39;s northern prefecture of Niigata, struck on Saturday by the country&#39;s deadliest temblor since 1995, was today rocked by fresh earthquakes strong enough to sway buildings in Tokyo.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - A series of earthquakes and aftershocks rattled northern Japan yesterday, killing at least 13 people. More than 700 were injured as buildings crumbled, a bullet train derailed and roadways were torn apart.
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A strong earthquake tremor has shaken northern Japan days after several quakes killed at least 31 people.
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TOKYO - Two strong earthquakes, one magnitude 6.9 and the second magnitude 7.3, rattled western Japan within hours of each other Sunday night, injuring 14 people, shaking buildings in Tokyo and triggering tsunami waves.    Damage and injuries appeared to be limited because both quakes were far off Japan's coast, and the region shaken most strongly by them was a sparsely populated rural area, Wakayama, 280 miles west of Tokyo...
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake flattened houses in northwestern Japan on Monday, killing at least seven people, and sparking a small radiation leak and fire at the world's biggest nuclear power plant.
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A strong earthquake jolted northwestern Japan on Monday, injuring more than 190 people, destroying houses and sparking a fire at a nuclear power plant, Japanese media and officials said.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted northern Japan on Wednesday in the same region where the country's deadliest quake in a decade killed at least 31 people and injured more than 3,400 five days ago.
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An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale hit central Japan Sunday evening after a M6.8 quake hit western Japan five hours earlier, NHK television reported.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the open-ended Richter scale shook western Japan on Sunday and tsunami warnings were issued, broadcaster NHK reported.
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 hit a wide area of Japan&#39;s northernmost main island of Hokkaido early on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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TOKYO : A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale has injured 13 people in northern Japan in a new sign of seismic activity a month after the country&#39;s deadliest tremor in a decade.