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Strong quake rocks Tokyo region hours after 6.8 off-shore tremor - Magda Hassan - 14-03-2012 A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has hit the Tokyo region. There are no reports of damages yet following the recent quake.Earlier, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan which led the national meteorological agency to issue a tsunami advisory, which was later canceled.Tsunami waves measuring up to 20 centimeters were observed in some areas of Hokkaido and Aom [URL="http://rt.com/news/japan-quake-tokyo-tsunami-557/"]http://rt.com/news/japan-quake-tokyo-tsunami-557/[/URL] Strong quake rocks Tokyo region hours after 6.8 off-shore tremor - Peter Lemkin - 14-03-2012 Magda Hassan Wrote: Japan is, has been and always will be [in time spans of humans] very seismically active! It is no accident that the deepest ocean trench is just offshore of Japan. The two plates are colliding and one is subducting below the other - causing earthquakes and volcanoes. No place for nuclear plants and just about the most regularly hit place by tsunamis [a Japanese word] in the world - Indonesia probably second. Strong quake rocks Tokyo region hours after 6.8 off-shore tremor - Bernice Moore - 16-03-2012 http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/314733/20120315/japan-earthquake-2012-tokyo.htm Japan Earthquake 2012: Tokyo At Risk For Major Disaster In Near Future |