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To: maceng2 who wrote (261882)	9/25/2003 5:44:17 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 436258

Strong earthquake (this report has richter magnitude of 6.2.. pb) Rocks northeast Japan TOKYO–A second strong earth-quake hit northeastern Japan on Saturday morning, causing at least one landslide, halting trains and prompting power outages, public broadcaster NHK said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. But NHK said there had been at least one landslide causing damage to three houses, and heavy rains the night before meant there was a danger of more. Weaker aftershocks were also being felt. NHK said the earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale and hit with an intensity of around six on the Japanese scale of seven in some areas of Miyagi prefecture in northeastern Japan, about 300 km (190 miles) north of Tokyo. About 130,000 homes were without electric power, NHK said. The quake, which could be felt in Tokyo, came just hours after another strong trembler jolted the same area. That quake, which hit shortly after midnight, measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. There had been no reports of casualties or serious damage. “As compared to the previous one, the tremor was weaker,” said a local official in the town of Matsuyama near the epicenter. “The town has been hit by a power outage,” he added. A meteorological agency official had said earlier that there were no links between Saturday’s initial earthquake and the so called Miyagi-oki earthquake, which has hit the region cyclically about every 30 to 40 years and last struck in 1978, killing 28 people. “Ties between this earthquake and the hypothetical major earthquake that could occur off the coast of Miyagi prefecture can be ignored,” Noritake Nishide was quoted by Kyodo as saying. Kyodo said the first earthquake had caused blackouts in some areas, stopped some trains and caused parts of highways to close. Kyodo also said four people were injured in Miyagi. Miyagi was hit by a powerful earthquake in late May that measured 7.0 on the Richter scale and left more than 100 people injured. That earthquake was of about the same magnitude as a devastating earthquake in the western Japanese city of Kobe eight years ago, which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and left 6,430 dead. --Reuters manilatimes.net