Tokyo: The magnitude-6.5 earthquake that battered Kumamoto Prefecture on Thursday evening was centred in an area that a government committee had warned could be the location of a major quake. Experts suggest more large ones could occur there.
The earthquake, which registered a maximum 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7, possibly was triggered by movement in part of a long, active fault running through central Kyushu.
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