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Police officers clean the debris from an earthquake in Uwajima, Ehime prefecture, western Japan

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A firefighter walks through the rubble and wreckage of a burnt-out marketplace following earthquake in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024.

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Japan is prone to earthquakes due to its geography along the active Pacific Ring of Fire, where multiple tectonic plates converge and interact.

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residents in the Japanese city of Soma taking refuge at an evacuation centre and of damages inside a home after a powerful overnight earthquake rattled large parts of Japan.

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Products are scattered at a convenience store in Fukushima, northern Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2022, following an earthquake.

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