Strong quake hit Hokkaido Island, Japan
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TOKYO - The northern Japanese Hokkaido Island has been stroke by a strong magnitude 7 earthquake. The authorities are warning the local population of the possible powerful tsunami that can take place in the coastal areas.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake flattened houses in northwestern Japan on Monday, killing at least six people, forcing the evacuation of thousands and sparking a small fire at the world's biggest nuclear power plant.
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A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's northern island of Hokkaido early Monday, injuring at least 13 people, swaying buildings and triggering a small tsunami wave that reached the shore.
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A strong earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, seismologists said on Wednesday.
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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 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 &#151; an accident not reported to the public for hours.
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NAGAOKA, Japan  - 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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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude 5.8 jolted northern Japan on Monday, public broadcaster NHK said. The quake, at 11:16 a.m. (9:16 p.m. EST), was also felt in Tokyo.
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 shook northern Japan early Friday. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
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A strong earthquake rocked northern Japan today near the area where the countryâs deadliest quake in a decade struck last month.
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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 Monday, Japanese media said, quoting the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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Strong aftershocks shook northern Japan on Sunday after the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 18 people and injured some 1,500 as houses collapsed, roads crumbled and rail tracks buckled.
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A strong earthquake struck off the coast of central Japan Monday, collapsing houses, triggering small tsunami waves and setting off a fire at a nuclear power plant.
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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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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake killed at least four people in Japan on Monday, injured more than 400, flattened houses and started a small fire at the world's largest nuclear power plant, Japanese media and officials said.
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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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OJIYA, Japan  - Dozens of aftershocks shook  northern Japan on Sunday after a powerful earthquake killed at  least 17 people and injured nearly 1,000 as houses collapsed  and landslides devastated a village, stranding hundreds.