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Friday, October 20, 2017

Earthquake at 6.1 magnitude strikes off the coast of Japan Thursday Oct 19,2017



An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck off southern Japan on Thursday Oct 19,2017, the United States Geological Survey said.

The quake struck 424 miles off Japan's island of Kyushu at a depth of 6.2 miles, the agency said.

There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

This comes two weeks after a similar earthquake, at 6.3 on the Richter scale, hit 180 miles east of Iwaki, south of Fukushima, Japan.

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