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A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 06:54:25 (UTC) on Wednesday, February 27, 2008,  in the Bonin islands region,   35 km  SE of Chichi-shima, Bonin Islands, Japan, at a depth of 47.1 km.

Location     26.835°N, 142.422°E

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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 14:04:34 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 25, 2007,  near the  East coast of Honshu, Japan,   100 km  ENE  from Sendai, Honshu, Japan, at a depth of 49.9  km.

Location     38.502°N, 141.969°E

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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 13:51:38 (UTC) on Monday, November 26, 2007,  near the  East coast of Honshu, Japan,   73 km (46 miles) ENE (64°) from Iwaki, Honshu, Japan, at a depth of 39 km.

Location     37.350°N, 141.646°E


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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 12:58:29 (UTC) on Tuesday, July 31, 2007,  in the Bonin islands region,  356 km WNW from Chichi-shima, Bonin Islands, Japan, at a depth of 505 km.

Location     28.345°N, 138.893°E

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A huge earthquake occurred off Jyo-chuetsu, Niigata Prefecture (60 kilometres south-west of the city of Niigata), at about a depth of 17 kilometres at 10:13 a.m. on July 16, 2007 Japan Standard Time (All the following dates and times in this release are Japan Standard Time.) The earthquake was named the 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu Offshore Earthquake.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) analysed observation images acquired by the Advanced Land Observing Satellite Daichi (ALOS) on July 19 and confirmed the pattern of diastrophism.
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The attached image  shows diastrophism by processing the image data taken by one of the Daichi onboard sensors, the PALSAR, at 10:13 a.m. on July 19.

Credit JAXA


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The impact of a strong quake Monday in northwestern Japan caused the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant -- the world's largest to leak water containing radioactive materials, a company spokesman said.
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Water containing some radioactive materials leaked from a nuclear power plant in Japan after a strong earthquake on Monday, a spokesperson for the firm running the facility said.
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A strong magnitude 6.8  earthquake occurred at 14:17:34 (UTC) on Monday, July 16, 2007,   in the Sea of Japan,  145 km  WNW of Fukui, Honshu, Japan, at a depth of 315.6 km.

Location     36.785°N, 134.850°E

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A strong magnitude 6.7  earthquake occurred at 01:13:28 (UTC) on Monday, July 16, 2007,  near the west coast of Honshu,  65 km SW of Niigata, Honshu, Japan, at a depth of 55.4 km.

Location     37.574°N, 138.440°E

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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 jolted islands off Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
A tsunami warning was issued for waves about 50 cm, the agency said, adding that the waves were thought to have reached some shores already.

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