Strong Quake Jolts Northwestern Japan
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A strong earthquake jolted northwestern Japan on Monday morning, flattening dozens of wooden houses, and triggering small tsunamis.
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: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rocked northern Japan today near the area where the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in years struck last month.
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TOKYO - A strong earthquake Thursday shook buildings and swayed trees in a northern Japan region still recovering from last month&#39;s magnitude 6.8 quake, the Meteorological Agency said.
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An earthquake measuring about 7.3 on the  Richter scale shook western Japan on Sunday, the second strong  quake to hit the area in five hours, and evacuations were  ordered as tsunamis approached the coast, NHK television said.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of  5.9 jolted northern Japan on Monday in the latest aftershock to  hit a region struck by a deadly tremor last month.
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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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TOKYO - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude 7.0 has jolted the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. Japan&#39;s Meteorological Agency warned the quake could create a tidal wave off the eastern shores of the island.
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NAGAOKA, JAPAN - An earthquake shook Japan on Wednesday as rescuers dug out members of a family buried alive during a weekend earthquake.
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A powerful earthquake with a preliminary  magnitude of 6.0 jolted northern Japan on Wednesday, national  broadcaster NHK said. The quake was also felt in Tokyo.
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NAGAOKA, JAPAN - Another strong earthquake rocked northern Japan early Wednesday, just hours after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the area already devastated by a severe weekend quake.
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A strong earthquake hit western Japan and surrounding areas Sunday evening, with weather officials issuing tsunami warnings to Mie and Wakayama prefectures.
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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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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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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 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 measuring 6.6 hits north-western Japan, triggering small tsunami waves.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Strong aftershocks shook northern  Japan on Sunday after the country'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.