Powerful Quake Injures 243 in Northern Japan

World | September 26, 2003, Friday // 00:00
Powerful Quake Injures 243 in Northern Japan A worker starts clearing the floor scattered with books that fell from the shelves at a book store in northern Japan, after a big earthquake struck Friday morning. The earthquake rocked the island of Hokkaido and injured 243 people. Photo by AP

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido early Friday, injuring more than 243 people, knocking out power, derailing a train and touching off an industrial fire. There were no immediate reports of deaths directly caused by the quake in the hours following the tremor that forced the evacuation of some 41,000 people and left some 16,000 homes blacked out. The meteorological agency said tsunami as high as 3 feet hit the city of Kushiro, about 510 miles north of Tokyo. There were no reports of damage. The quake struck at 4:50 a.m., cracking roads, capsizing fishing boats and causing the roof of a local airport to partially cave in.

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