July 24, 2008 06:52am
AT least 43 people were taken to hospital for injuries after a powerful earthquake struck northern Japan early today, officials said.
The injuries were reported in and around the city of Hachinohe in Aomori prefecture, near the epicentre of the earthquake, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale.
"The number of injuries related to the earthquake in the region has now risen to 43," a spokesman for the National Police Department in Tokyo said, adding that all the injuries were not serious.
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