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Sunday, February 07, 2010 TOKYO: Japan's Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami warning for several small islands after a strong earthquake shook an area off the country's southern coast. The agency says the earthquake hit at 3:10 p.m. (0610 GMT) and registered magnitude 6.6. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at 6.4. The Japanese agency says the tsunami is expected to be about 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) high. There were no immediate reports of damage. Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. In1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake in the western port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 LISBON: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday hundreds of kilometres off Portugal's Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, US and Portuguese geologists said.The US Geological Survey said that the quake struck 445 kilometres (277 miles) south of the islands at a depth of 10 km at 4:41 pm (1841 GMT), but it was not felt in the region.The remote islands form a quake-prone Portuguese archipelago located some 1,500 kilometres from Lisbon and are home to some 240,000 Azoreans. "The event was not felt in the region," said the Azores's volcanic and seismic activity institute, CIVISA.