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Thu, Mar 15, 2012

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A seismologist points to a graphic showing an earthquake at a monitoring centre in Taipei. A small tsunami hit Japan's northeastern coastline on Wednesday, officials said, after a strong earthquake rocked the region almost exactly a year on from the country's worst post-war natural disaster
A seismologist points to a graphic showing an earthquake at a monitoring centre in Taipei. A small tsunami hit Japan's northeastern coastline on Wednesday, officials said, after a strong earthquake rocked the region almost exactly a year on from the country's worst post-war natural disaster

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