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Aftershocks rattle quake-hit Japanese island
A series of aftershocks rattled Japan's southern Kyushu island, two days after a powerful earthquake left one dead and more than 700 injured, officials said.
Sunday's quake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, damaged 780 homes and 63 roads and triggered at least nine landslides in the region, a police official said.
Since Sunday's quake, the Meteorological Agency said it recorded 13 aftershocks measuring above 4.0 on the Richter scale in areas on Kyushu.
Close to midnight overnight, an aftershock with a magnitude of 4.6 struck Kyushu with its epicenter located off the coast of Fukuoka. Its focus was about 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level, an agency official said.
Sunday's quake was the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since a magnitude-6.8 quake rattled the Niigata region, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Tokyo on October 23, leaving 40 people dead.
The Niigata disaster was the deadliest in quake-prone Japan since January 17, 1995, when 6,433 people died after a pre-dawn temblor in the western port city of Kobe. |
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