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Earthquake paralyzes Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido
An earthquake has paralyzed Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island, killing eight residents. Power is cut to 3 million households. Trains and mobile phone networks are idle. The jolt follows a typhoon over western Japan. Japan mobilized 20,000 rescue workers on Hokkaido on Thursday after being wracked by a magnitude-6.7 earthquake just south of Sapporo, Hokkaido island’s main…
