INQUIRER.net: 5.5-magnitude quake strikes off Japan — USG

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5.5-magnitude quake strikes off Japan — USG Dec 29th 2012, 22:20 TOKYO-- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake hit at depth of 40 kilometers (25 miles) at 11:59 pm (1459 GMT Saturday), about 123 kilometers east of the northern city of Sendai, the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of damage. A powerful 7.3-magnitude undersea quake off the northeast coast earlier this month triggered a one-metre-high tsunami but no reports of fatalities. In March last year a devastating earthquake and tsunami in the same area left some 19,000 people dead or missing and crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the world's worst atomic disaster i... Keep on reading: 5.5-magnitude quake strikes off Japan — USG Media files: japan-map.jpg (image/jpeg)

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