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Today's earthquake biggest in Japan's modern-day
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March 11, 2011, Friday
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THE 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck northeastern Japan today is the biggest one that ever observed by the Japanese Meteorological Agency, reported Kyodo news agency.
The strength of the powerful quake that struck Japan at 2:46 pm local time surpasses the 7.9 registered in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake which hit the Kanto region centering on Tokyo, and 7.3 in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake which devastated Kobe and its vicinity, the governmental agency said.
The Kobe quake on January 17, 1995, killed 6,434 people and injured some 44,000, while destroying about 105,000 houses and damaging about 535,000 others while the Great Kanto Earthquake hit Tokyo and six surrounding prefectures in the Kanto region on September 1, 1923, killing 91,000 people and leaving 13,000 others unaccounted for, Kyodo said.
The strength of the powerful quake that struck Japan at 2:46 pm local time surpasses the 7.9 registered in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake which hit the Kanto region centering on Tokyo, and 7.3 in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake which devastated Kobe and its vicinity, the governmental agency said.
The Kobe quake on January 17, 1995, killed 6,434 people and injured some 44,000, while destroying about 105,000 houses and damaging about 535,000 others while the Great Kanto Earthquake hit Tokyo and six surrounding prefectures in the Kanto region on September 1, 1923, killing 91,000 people and leaving 13,000 others unaccounted for, Kyodo said.
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