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A powerful earthquake has struck near the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, a day after a tremor there killed at least nine people.The magnitude-7.1 quake at a depth of 10km (6 miles) hit at 01:25 on Saturday (15:25 GMT on Friday). A number of smaller quakes followed.A tsunami warning was issued, but has now been lifted.Japan is regularly hit by earthquakes but stringent building codes mean that they rarely cause significant damage.Thursday's magnitude-6.2 quake caused shaking at some places as intense as the huge earthquake that hit the country in 2011, Japan's seismology office said.That quake sparked a huge tsunami and nuclear meltdown at a power plant in Fukushima.