Strong Earthquakes Rattle Western Japan
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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 the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Sunday. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
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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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At least three strong earthquakes struck northwest Japan on Saturday, collapsing homes, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of residents, derailing a ``bullet&#39;&#39; train, and shaking buildings across Tokyo.
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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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Strong aftershocks rattled western Japan early today after two powerful earthquakes last evening injured 38 people. Meanwhile, a powerful typhoon hit Japanâs southern islands, injuring 21 people, and the
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A strong earthquake shook the ground of northern Japan Wednesday, following a string of quakes and aftershocks that started over the weekend and killed 31 people.
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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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Three strong earthquakes shook northwestern Japan within a span of minutes on Saturday, rocking buildings hundreds of kilometres away in Tokyo.
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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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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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A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 hits north-western Japan, triggering small tsunami waves.
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A second strong earthquake measuring 7.3 on the open-ended Richter scale hit western Japan on Sunday evening, just hours after the region was rocked by a similarly intense quake, public broadcaster NHK 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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The two offshore quakes on Sunday- the first with a magnitude of 6.9 followed by a 7.3-magnitude temblor five hours later - were felt most strongly in sparsely populated areas in south-western Wakayama prefecture, about 450km west of Tokyo.
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Residents of western Japan were warned of  possible aftershocks on Monday after two strong earthquakes the  previous day but authorities said the tremors were not directly  linked to a cycle of major seismic activity that hits the  region every century or so.
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A strong earthquake jolted northwestern Japan on Monday morning and caused buildings in the capital Tokyo to sway. The Meteorological Agency said small tsunamis as high as 20 inches were believed to have hit coasts in the area.