Quake Rocks Tokyo, Nearby Areas

Tokyo, Aug. 23 (Jiji Press)--A major earthquake occurred in Ibaraki Prefecture early Sunday morning, rocking eastern Japan areas including Tokyo. The quake with an estimated magnitude of 5.9 occurred in southern Ibaraki at a depth of some 70 kilometers around 2 a.m., recording a seismic intensity of lower 5, the fifth-highest level on the Japanese scale, in some areas in the prefectures of ...

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