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| Earthquake hits off Japan’s east coast as country braced for monster typhoon | |
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| A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck off the east coast of Japan’s main Honshu island as monster Typhoon Hagibis is set to make landfall in the middle of the country. | |
| Japan’s Meteorological Agency reported that the quake hit at 6.22pm local time. It struck at a depth of 59.6 km and its epicenter is 55 kilometres south southeast of Katsuura in Chiba prefecture, the US Geological Survey reports. | |
| More than 1.6 million people have already been ordered to evacuate parts of Honshu as Typhoon Hagibis barrels towards the center of Japan. | |
| The violent storm, set to be Japan’s worst in 60 years, has already claimed its first victim as a man was killed when a vehicle toppled over in heavy winds in Chiba, east of Tokyo, NHK News reports. | |
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