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Fishermen's wharf at Saikaiminato port damaged by quake

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - A wharf for fishing boats at Sakaiminato port, shown in this Oct. 7 photo, was damaged by a powerful quake that shook wide areas of western Japan the previous day. The magnitude-7.3 quake hit at 1:30 p.m., injuring more than 100 people in nine prefectures in western Japan. It registered upper 6 on the Japanese intensity scale of 7 in Sakaiminato and Hino in Tottori Prefecture. In terms of magnitude, it was stronger than the Great Hanshin quake of Jan. 17, 1995, which registered 7.2 and killed more than 6,000 people, mainly in Kobe and its vicinity. Kobe is about 200 km from the focus of the Oct. 6 quake.