Strong earthquakes rattle western Japan, triggering tsunami waves
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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.
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An earthquake shook central and western Japan at 8:29 am local time. The magnitude was 6.4, NHK Television said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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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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A strong earthquake shook western Japan on Sunday, injuring at least two people, news reports said. There were no immediate reports of damage.
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A series of powerful earthquakes, one measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, rocked northwestern Japan, mainly in the Niigata Prefecture, Saturday evening, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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A strong earthquake jolted northwestern  Japan on Monday, injuring dozens of people, destroying some  houses and causing a fire at a nuclear power plant, Japanese  media and officials said.
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TOKYO Oct 23, 2004 - Several strong earthquakes shook northwestern Japan within a span of several minutes Saturday, toppling homes, causing blackouts, cutting water and gas and derailing a bullet train.
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A moderate earthquake shook western Japan  on Tuesday, two days after over 40 people were injured when two  strong quakes hit the region.
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AN earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale hit western Japan this morning, just hours after another strong quake rocked the area.
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Tokyo (dpa) - Two earthquakes with magnitudes of 6.9 and 7.4 hit western Japan Sunday night, injuring at least 38 people and causing more than 6,000 people to evacuate for fear of tidal waves, police and firefighters said Monday.
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SEVERAL strong earthquakes shook north-western Japan within a span of minutes last night, toppling homes, causing blackouts, cutting water and gas services, and derailing a bullet train.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- A strong earthquake shook Japan's northwest coast Monday, setting off a fire at the world's most powerful nuclear power plant and causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea _ an accident not reported to the public for hours.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the open-ended Richter scale shook western Japan on Sunday and officials issued tsunami warnings, broadcaster NHK reported.
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Japan lifted a tsunami warning that was  issued for a group of islands south of Tokyo on Wednesday after  a strong earthquake off its eastern coast.
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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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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit northwestern Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings in Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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TOKYO : A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted western and central Japan, following two major tremors at the weekend, the meteorological agency said.