PHOTOS: Powerful earthquakes rattle Japan

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Friday, April 15, 2016
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A resident walks by a collapsed house in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
AP Photo/Koji Ueda

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck southern Japan early Saturday, barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the same region and killed nine people.


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