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Residents wait in line to receive tarps to cover the damaged roofs of their homes before the rain starts in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 15. (Naoko Kawamura) SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Preparedness is everything in a major earthquake as residents learned the hard way a decade ago. But their efforts in the years since have clearly paid off. When the destructive shaking arrived in the middle of the night on Feb. 13, Yoshimasa Imada, 55, immediately decided to react and told himself, “I will protect my family this time around.” He started preparing to go to a nearby evacuation center...

Many homes in the prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima were still without water Monday and railway connections remained disrupted as residents worked to restore order yet again.

The number of people injured by a powerful earthquake in northeastern Japan two days earlier rose to

Tokyo, Feb. 14 (Jiji Press)--A powerful earthquake that mainly hit the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan on …

Aerial footage taken on Feb. 14 shows landslides and other damage caused by the earthquake in Fukushima Prefecture. (Masahiko Endo) More than 100 people were injured in a magnitude-7.3 earthquake that struck on Feb. 13 in the same Tohoku region that was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami 10 years ago. As of 9 a.m. on Feb. 14, at least 102 people in seven prefectures, including Fukushima and Miyagi, were confirmed to have been injured in the quake that occurred the previous night, triggering widespread blackouts, local authorities said. No deaths wer...