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/ 25 March 2006

Quake in central Japan kills one, hurts over 160

A strong earthquake killed one person and injured at least 160 in central Japan on Sunday, demolishing houses, buckling roads, triggering landslides and cutting off water supplies. More than 1 300 people evacuated to shelters after 44 houses collapsed and about 200 others, mostly wooden with heavy tile roofs, were seriously damaged by the 6,9 magnitude earthquake.