Victims buried alive in Japan quake
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A series of powerful earthquakes has killed at least 18 people and injured more than 800 people in northern Japan. The first quake struck on Saturday in Niigata prefecture, 200km north of Tokyo, followed by strong aftershocks.
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Japan resumed rescue efforts at first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the area where the country's deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 23 people and injured more than 2,000 at the weekend.
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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&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 21 people.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 12,000 people huddled in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake flattened homes, killing nine elderly people, injuring around 1,000 and triggering a leak of contaminated water from a nuclear plant.
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A three-year-old girl buried in the rubble of an earthquake-triggered landslide in northern Japan was declared dead yesterday, the day after rescuers pulled her younger brother alive from the wreckage.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Rescuers who saved a toddler  buried for four days by Japan's deadliest earthquake in a  decade were unable perform a second miracle for his sister on  Thursday, as close to 100,000 people remained in makeshift  shelters.
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Rescue workers search for survivors of a strong earthquake in central Japan which killed nine people.
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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.
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Strong aftershocks have continued to hit Japan two days after 24 people died in the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in almost a decade.
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that have hit the Niigata region, the Meteorological Agency said. A series of smaller quakes followed. No tsunami. hospital after being buried in a landslide and six people who were hurt slightly by parts of a wall that collapsed.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Japan resumed full-scale rescue  efforts at first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the  area where the country's deadliest earthquake in nine years  killed at least 23 people and injured more than 2,000.
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A three-year-old girl buried in the rubble of an earthquake-triggered landslide in northern Japan was declared dead Thursday, a day after rescuers pulled her younger brother alive from the wreckage.
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Up to 20 people have been found still alive after being buried under the rubble of a building that collapsed 10 days ago in the devastated town of Real in the northern Philippines.
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Rescue workers dug decomposed corpses from ruined homes and hotels in this tsunami-devastated town Thursday, and a mass burial was held for some of the 547 people killed by the waves.
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TOKYO - Tens of thousands of people have moved to emergency shelters after a series of earthquakes in Japan killed at least 19 people and injured as many as 1,800.
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OJIYA: Some 100,000 weary survivors of Japan&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade have bedded down for a third night in makeshift shelters or slept outside as a series of strong aftershocks raised fears of another big tremor.
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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.