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Powerful earthquake rattles Japan

By Motoko Rich TOKYO — A large earthquake shook a broad area across eastern Japan late Saturday (13) night, with its epicentre off the coast of Fukushima, near where three nuclear reactors melted down after a quake and tsunami nearly 10…
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December 26 in History

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake) occurred at 07:58:53 in local time (UTC+7) on December 26, with an epicentre off the west…
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