7.4 quake hits near Japanese islands

By Donna Clark | December 21, 2010 |

The quake hit at 2:19 am local time (1719 GMT Tuesday) 95 miles east of Chichi-shima in Japan’s remote Bonin island region and at a shallow depth of just 14 kilometers. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage but a tsunami one foot hit the island chain, according to Japanese television broadcasts..The meteorological…

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