Earthquakes in Japan kill 4
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A series of earthquakes, the largest measuring 6.8 on the Japanese scale, have hit northern Japan, killing at least four people and injuring more than 400.
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STRONG aftershocks jolted central Japan today after thousands spent a night in shelters following the country&#39;s deadliest quake in nearly a decade that left 24 people dead.
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Four Britons are dead and thousands more are stranded in south and east Asia after an earthquake sent massive waves flooding across the region.
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An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, and a series of aftershocks rocked central Japan on Saturday, killing at least 10 people including four children, officials and reports said.
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A SERIES of powerful earthquakes, including an initial tremor measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, has killed 15 people and injured more than 700 people in central Japan.
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A shock with a magnitude of 8.4 hit the region last night after over a dozen people were killed in earthquakes yesterday.
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Tokyo - Still reeling from a 6.8-level earthquake, Japan&#39;s northwestern Niigata prefecture was hit by another strong quake on Sunday afternoon measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale as the death toll from the previous hours rose to at least 22.
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Japan&#39;s main northern island of Hokkaido was jolted late on Monday by a new powerful earthquake registering 6.9 on the Richter scale, lightly injuring four people, days after a tremor of similar magnitude.
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TOKYO - A pair of powerful earthquakes struck western Japan today, rattling several major cities and triggering tsunami waves. There are reports at least four people are injured, but no damage reports yet.
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale has jolted Japan&#39;s main northern island of Hokkaido. Four people have been slightly injured by the quake, which struck below the ocean just east of the island&#39;s tip.
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Four Britons were confirmed dead after Asian countries were hit by massive tidal waves triggered by a earthquake, the Foreign Office said.
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A SERIES of powerful earthquakes in central Japan, including an initial tremor measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, have left 20 people dead or missing and injured 1000 others, officials and news reports said.
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NAGAOKA, Japan  - A strong earthquake with a  preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted northern Japan on  Wednesday, in the same region where a major quake killed at  least 31 people and injured more than 3,400 five days ago.
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 and  several powerful aftershocks rocked northern Japan on Saturday,  killing at least four people and injuring more than 400 while  knocking out power and phone services, media said.
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A powerful earthquake in Japan has struck the exact same region where at least 31 people were killed and more than 3400 injured five days ago.
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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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TOKYO : A woman and two young children buried for four days after a deadly earthquake in central Japan have been pulled alive from the rubble Wednesday as another powerful temblor rocked the region.