(1)Major quakes jolt Hokkaido

KUSHIRO, Japan - Grave stones at a cemetery in Kushiro, Hokkaido, collapse after two powerful quakes, one with a preliminary magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter scale, jolted Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido on Sept. 26.

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