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Strong earthquake jolts Japan Sun Apr 15, 7:37 AM ET

04.17.07 (10:50 am) [edit]

A rental shop employee tries to gather CDs scattered on the floor, following a powerful earthquake, in Kameyama city, Mie prefecture, central Japan, Sunday, April 15, 2007. A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 jolted central Japan on Sunday, slightly injuring two people, damaging houses and a 400-year-old castle, police and officials said. There was no danger of a tsunami, the Meteorological Agency said. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

TOKYO - A moderate earthquake jolted central Japan on Sunday, injuring at least five people, damaging houses and a 400-year-old castle, police and officials said.The 5.4-magnitude quake hit at 12:19 p.m. local time and was centered in Mie prefecture, about 200 miles southwest of Tokyo, theU.S. Geological Survey said.About six hours later, a magnitude-4.5 temblor believed to be an aftershock struck the area, Japan's Meteorological Agency reported.

A woman and a man suffered minor head and shoulder injuries at a roadside restaurant in Kameyama city when part of a ceiling fell on them. Elsewhere in the Mie province, three people received minor leg and arm injuries, prefectural official Yoshihisa Ito said.

The quake also caused part of a stone wall to collapse at the more than 400-year-old Kameyama Castle, but nobody was injured, according to local police. Several houses were partially damaged.

Authorities briefly suspended high-speed bullet trains and other train services and closed roads to perform safety checks, but transport services quickly resumed, Ito said.

Sunday's temblor was not related to a pair of fairly powerful quakes Saturday — one near a remote island in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo and another one off the northeastern coast of Ibaraki, meteorological official Kazumitsu Yoshikawa said.

In March, a magnitude-6.9 quake in northwestern Japan killed one person and injured more than 200 others.

Japan sits atop four tectonic plates and is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. In 1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake killed 6,433 people in the western city of Kobe.

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03.18.07 (5:57 pm) [edit]

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03.10.07 (8:28 pm) [edit]

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03.06.07 (9:50 am) [edit]

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02.27.07 (9:31 am) [edit]

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