One person dead in Japan after quake - TV

Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:09pm EDT
 
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TOKYO, June 14 (Reuters) - One person was killed in a landslide after a strong earthquake in northern Japan on Saturday, Japan's TV Asahi reported.

The landslide occured in Iwaki City in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, after a shallow quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 jolted the region at 8:44 a.m. (2344 GMT).

 

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