Jul

25

Quake in Northern Japan Injures

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After quake, rescue team searched for injured people. The earthquake in northern Japan that left more than 100 people injured, some of them seriously.

The 6.8 Richter-scale quake struck just after midnight on the mountainous northern tip of Japan’s main island of Honshu, shattering windows and triggering landslides that blocked key roads on the Pacific coast.

According to latest report, near about 110 people were injured. Police said that 15 of them were in serious condition, some having broken bones as the quake threw them to the ground.

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Jun

14

7.0 scale earthquake jolts Japan

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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 that rocked northern Japan on Saturday has killed two people, the government’s top spokesman said.

Chief government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura said, “As per report two deaths at this moment, one in Ichinoseki and another in Fukushima prefecture, where a man was killed in a landslide while fishing,”

The quake at 8:44 am (2344 GMT) was centered in a rural area around 300 km (190 miles) north of Tokyo.

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