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Rare Ground Rupture Caught on Camera in Kumamoto Quake

Kumamoto, Aug. 24 (Jiji Press)--A security camera in Kumamoto Prefecture has filmed the moment an earthquake in the southwestern Japan prefecture caused the ground to rupture and rise, marking only the second time in the world the phenomenon has been confirmed on video. The footage is "extremely valuable for analyzing the mechanism of earthquakes," Ryusuke Imura, an associate professor of g...

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