Japan City Struck By New Earthquake

Powerful earthquake hits southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, day after a tremor there killed at least nine peopleThe quakesa magnitude 7.1 (4.4 miles) at a depth of 7km and a 7.4 at a depth of 40km (25 miles)came in quick succession, officials said.A tsunami warning has been issued.Japan is regularly struck by earthquakes but stringent building codes mean that they rarely cause significant damage.Thursdays magnitude-6.2 quake caused shaking at some places as intense as the huge earthquake that hit the country in 2011, Japans seismology office said.That quake sparked a huge tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima.The post Japan City Struck By New Earthquake appeared first on Nigerian News from Leadership News.
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