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A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s northeastern coast on Saturday without causing a tsunami risk, Japanese authorities and the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS) said.
The earthquake occurred at 10:27 local time (01:27 GMT) at a depth of 47 kilometers in the Pacific off Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, not far from the epicenter of the 2011 earthquake that caused a large tsunami, killing over 18,000 people
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