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An earthquake of the magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale struck Kumamoto in the south part of Japan late at night on 14 April, leaving 9 people dead and more than 1,000 injured. This tremor, however, turned out to be just a foreshock of a still larger quake of the magnitude of 7.3 that occurred before the dawn on 16 April, which has additionally killed at least 20 people (as of this reporting). The area has been since experiencing hundreds of aftershocks, and some 70,000 people are reported to
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Kumamoto: Search and rescue operation ongoing for earthquake victims | peace winds JAPAN
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An earthquake of the magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale struck Kumamoto in the south part of Japan late at night on 14 April, leaving 9 people dead and more than 1,000 injured. This tremor, however, turned out to be just a foreshock of a still larger quake of the magnitude of 7.3 that occurred before the dawn on 16 April, which has additionally killed at least 20 people (as of this reporting). The area has been since experiencing hundreds of aftershocks, and some 70,000 people are reported to
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