Replica of 6.6 degrees near Fukushima

New York. .- The United States Geological Survey (USGS, for its acronym in English) has reported on Tuesday an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 degrees on the Richter scale in the sea near the coast of Honshu, the island Japan's largest. It is the third strong earthquake has occurred in the last two and a half hours near the epicenter of 9 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, according to the USGS.

The other two were 6.6 and 6.4 degrees and are the most intense earthquakes of the many that have occurred in that area after that triggered the tsunami.

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