Earthquakes Shake Japan

Tokyo, Nov 15 (Prensa Latina) Another earthquake, the third in three days in a row, shook the southern island of Kyushu, in Japan, on Sunday, according to the Hawaii-based United States Geological Service.

It was a 5.7-magnitude tremor in Richter's scale and was located 151 kilometers from the city of Kagoshima and 26 kilometers deep.

A 5.2-magnuture earthquake was reported in the Japanese archipelago on Saturday, 230 kilometers east of the city of Ofunato, in the prefecture of Iwate, at a depth of 16.1 kilometers.

On Friday, a seven-magnitude earth tremor was reported 159 kilometers from the city of Makurazaki, where authorities issued a tsunami warning.

Japan is on one of the most seismically active regions in the world, the so-called fire belt of the Pacific Ocean.

Seismologists say that thousands of earthquakes are reported every year in that part of the planet as a result of the subsoil's accommodation.

www.plenglish.com