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A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, leaving at least 36 people dead. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. A magnitude six
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  point eight earthquake strikes Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, leaving at least
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  thirty six people dead. On the twenty eighth of July
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  twenty twenty six, at approximately sixteen hours, twenty seven minutes
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  and fifteen seconds jst an earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture in
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  southern Japan with a magnitude of MWW six point eight
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  at a depth of ten kilometers. At least thirty six
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  people were killed and dozens more were injured. The Japan
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  Meteorological Agency has officially named the earthquake the twenty twenty
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  six Kumamoto Earthquake. Kumamoto Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan
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  located on the island of Kshu. Kumamoto Prefecture has a
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  population of one six hundred eighty three one hundred and
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  fifteen and has a geographic area of seven four oh
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  nine square kilometers. Kumamoto Prefecture orders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north,
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  Oita Prefecture to the northeast, Miyazaki Prefecture to the southeast,
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  and Kagoshima Prefecture to the south. Kumamoto is the capital
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  and largest city of Kumamoto Prefecture, with other major cities
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  including Yatsushiro, Amakusa, and Tamana. Kumamoto Prefecture is located in
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  the center of Kyushu, on the coast of the Ariake Sea,
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  across from Nagasaki Prefecture, with the mainland separated from the
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  East China Sea by the Amakusa Archipelago. Kumamoto Prefecture is
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  home to Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan
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  and among the largest in the world, with its peak
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  one five hundred ninety two meters above sea level. That's
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  it for now. See the episode notes for Wikipedia sources
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  and licensing. Thank you.