Strong quake shakes summit city
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Costa Ricans are clearing up after a strong earthquake hit the country on Saturday killing at least four people. Hundreds of houses were damaged and major highways were cracked in the magnitude 6.2 quake, centred 48km (30 miles) south-west of San Jose.
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TOKYO - Two deaths and more than 90 injuries were reported after a strong earthquake rattled northwestern Japan Saturday. The 6.8 magnitude tremor toppled several houses in rural Niigata prefecture, about 250 kilometres north of Tokyo.
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A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.6 hit Manila in the Philippines overnight, the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake center in Golden, Colorado reported on Friday.
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A 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook the crater at Mount St Helens yesterday, the strongest quake at the volcano since mid-October. US Geological Survey scientists said they did not believe a major eruption was
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck near Parkfield last Tuesday [Sept. 28] at 10:15 am and lasted more than 10 seconds.
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rattled homes east of Mount Rainier on Saturday night, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported.
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Two blasts rocked an unused government facility overnight, damaging the compound&#39;s wall, witnesses said Friday, sparking security jitters ahead of a regional summit.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of  5.9 jolted northern Japan Monday in the latest aftershock to  hit a region struck by a deadly tremor last month.
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A strong earthquake rattled the Tokyo area early Wednesday, injuring nearly two dozen people, jarring buildings and temporarily disrupting train service, officials and media reports said.
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A minor earthquake with a magnitude of 3.4 shook portions of downtown San Francisco and nearby Berkeley on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.
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TAIPEI - The strongest quake to hit Taiwan in five years shook the capital yesterday, causing tall buildings to sway and shutting down the subway system for an hour during the lunch rush.
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A strong earthquake shook northern Chile early Sunday in the same region where a temblor killed at least two people last month, but authorities reported no new deaths or serious damage.
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 shook northern Japan on Thursday in the same region that was hit by a deadly tremor last month, scaring local residents, many of them still in evacuation centers.
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A strong earthquake hits Tokyo, shaking the Japanese capital for more than a minute.
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck along the Sam Andreas fault Tuesday morning. The quake hit in an area known as California&#39;s earthquake capital.
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An earthquake strikes Costa Rica during an Ibero-American summit killing at least four people.
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A major earthquake shook western Indonesia Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site. The preliminary magnitude was listed at 7.6.