Japan earthquake kills 21, injures 1,500
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A series of severe earthquakes in northern Japan left 21 people dead, more than 1,500 injured and at least 7 missing, the Kyodo news reported Sunday.
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TOKAMACHI, Japan, Oct 26  - The death toll from powerful quakes in central Japan has risen to 26 with 2,500 people injured and three still missing, police said Tuesday.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 and a series of big aftershocks rocked northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring dozens while triggering landslides and knocking out power.
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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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A SERIES of powerful earthquakes, including an initial tremor measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, has killed 15 people and injured more than 700 people in central Japan.
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The death toll from the powerful earthquakes that rocked Japan over the weekend jumped to 31 on Tuesday as four people, mostly elderly, died from strokes or cerebral hemorrhages due to stress of their ordeal.
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At least four people were injured, news reports said, but no damage was immediately reported. A quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit western Japan shortly after 7pm (2000 AEST), followed five hours
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OJIYA, Japan  - A powerful earthquake and strong  aftershocks rocked northern Japan, killing at least 14 people,  injuring more than 700 and knocking out power and phone  services to at least 278,000 homes, media said.
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TOKYO  - A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaid, injuring 13 people, the Meteorological Agency and police said.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 12,000 people prepared for a second night in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake the previous day killed nine people, injured more than 1,000 and triggered radioactive leaks from a nuclear plant.
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Japan was on edge after powerful earthquakes left 17 people dead or missing, injured hundreds and derailed a bullet train for the first time in history, within days of the country's worst typhoon in a quarter century.
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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.
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At least 21 people have been killed and dozens missing and feared drowned after a tsunami triggered by a huge earthquake struck Malaysia&#39;s northern coast, officials say.
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A magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck just off the northwestern Japanese coast Monday morning, knocking down several small buildings and resulting in at least 20 injuries, authorities reported.
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TOKYO -- Rescue workers airlifted residents out of isolated villages and sifted through wreckage for earthquake survivors yesterday, a day after a series of strong temblors hit northwest Japan, killing at least 21 people and injuring more than 1,500.
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A powerful earthquake in Japan has struck the exact same region where at least 31 people were killed and more than 3400 injured five days ago.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Thousands of weary and frightened  residents of northern Japan were spending a second night in  shelters, cars or in the open on Sunday after Japan's deadliest  earthquake in nine years killed at least 21 people.