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TOKYO, March 20 (Xinhuanet) -- A 75-year-old woman
was killed and about 400 people received treatment in hospitals following a 7.0
magnitude earthquake in the southwestern Kyushu island on Sunday, Kyodo News
reported.
The woman died after being trapped underneath a
collapsed wall,the report said.
The earthquake, which hit at around 10:53 a.m.(0153
GMT), registered a maximum intensity of lower 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of
7 in Fukuoka City and southern Saga Prefecture.
The Japan Meteorological Agency lifted a tsunami
warning at noon.
The focus of the earthquake was 9 kilometers below
sea level inthe Japan Sea, about 70 km off the Shimonoseki city in the Yamaguchi
Prefecture.
An aftershock warning of a maximum magnitude of 6 has
been issued.
Airports of the Fukuoka city and Nagasaki city have
resumed operations after being closed shortly.
The local bullet train services also have almost
fully resumed.
The quake was the strongest tremor to hit Kyushu
since May 1997,the agency said. Enditem |