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                    Quake Recovery Efforts Continue in Japan

   by VOA News

   Hundreds of rescue workers are combing through rubble as dazed
   residents in southern Japan work to restore normalcy to their
   quake-stricken region.

   Some 1,600 soldiers have joined nearly 2,000 police officers and 1,300
   firefighters to recover from an unusually powerful earthquake Thursday
   that toppled buildings, killed at least 9 people and injured more than
   800 others, according to government spokesman Yoshihide Suga.

   One bright spot was the televised overnight rescue of a baby who was
   carried out of the debris of a collapsed home.

   Aftershocks
   More than 100 aftershocks have occurred since the 6.5-magnitude
   earthquake struck near the city of Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu,
   about 1,300 kilometers southwest of Tokyo.

   A Kumamoto official said about 44,000 people spent the night in
   shelters after fleeing their homes.

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   As rescuers continue to search wreckage for possible survivors,
   officials said the death toll was unlikely to rise significantly.

   Water service has been disrupted in some areas, forcing residents to
   haul water from local offices to their homes.

   Suga said there are no apparent abnormalities at nearby nuclear
   facilities. The epicenter of the quake was about 120 kilometers
   northeast of the only operating nuclear plant in the country.

   Most of Japan's other nuclear reactors remain offline after a 9.0
   magnitude earthquake in 2011 that triggered a huge tsunami.
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