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Japan conducts national earthquake drill

September 1, 2011
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A street on Ginza shopping district is blocked during a disaster drill which was held on the assumption that an inland earthquake happened on National Disaster Prevention Day in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011
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Japan has conducted its first national earthquake drill since March 11 when an earthquake and tsunami left over 20,000 dead and triggered a nuclear crisis in Fukushima. Disaster Prevention Day is an annual drill to train for a potentially deadly magnitude 7.3 quake scenario in Tokyo. It is held to commemorate the anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed over 140,000 in 1923. AFP