The previous record was an 8.6-magnitude earthquake that struck near the Chubu Region near southwestern Honshu on October 28, 1707, that may have killed 5, 000 people, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.
Near the region of Naranjo, sprawling urban developments have taken over some of the best coffee land since then.
Four plants in northern Japan, including the Central Motor Plant, are near the region where the tsunami and earthquake impacted most severely.
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There was an interesting article in one of the American papers the other day saying that they thought that premiums would go up something near the region of 25 per cent over the next few years.
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The clash happened on 17 January in the Afar region near the border with Eritrea.
We later learned that networks had also been blocked in Bannu and the Lakki Marwat districts, both near the Waziristan region.
The Tech Coast Angels, named for the high-tech region near southern California's beaches, has branches in San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange County.
In Yemen, Ahmed Issa majored in French at Dhamar University, near his home region of Wasab, in the central western part of the country.
Dale Cortman prepared to lead a large supply convoy across Garmsir District, which had long been a lawless region near the border with Pakistan.
Preparations for today's assault on a rural desert region near Samarra began in February, with intelligence leads gathered by Iraqis and fleshed out by Americans.
Officials were scrambling over the weekend to repair the Iraq-Turkey pipeline in order to restore exports from the northern oil fields near the Kurdish region.
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Located in the Elysium Planitia, a region near the Martian equator, the network of tunnels has long been obscured by volcanic activity on the plains above.
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Investigators in this military shipyard region near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay have been asking two basic questions: Was the Bounty fit to sail in rough weather?
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The AP reported they the brothers were originally from the Russia region near Chechnya, and lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, attending local Cambridge schools.
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That the end is near in a region once inhabited by some of our earliest ancestors (Australopithecus walked these very river banks) is only one reason to visit the Omo now.
Islamist rebels are believed to have retreated to the Ifoghas mountains - a desert area in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria - after being forced from northern population centres in recent weeks.
Wine harvests can begin as early as the end of August in the hot Val di Cornia region near Suvereto, and even the last holdouts in Bolgheri are usually done by mid-October, the roads free of congestion once more.
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) The hunt for al-Qaida-linked militants in a mountainous region near Tunisia's borders with Algeria in recent days has raised alarm that the birthplace of the Arab Spring has become the latest battleground for violent jihadis.
The border region near Homs on the Syria side is strategic because it links Damascus with the coastal enclave that is the heartland of Syria's Alawites and is also home to the country's two main seaports, Latakia and Tartus.
Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, notes that Ukraine does have a potential separatist issue in Crimea, its narrowly connected peninsula in the Black Sea, but says that problem has been largely diffused by giving the region near autonomy.
Jean Monnet, a brandy merchant from Cognac, in southern France, and Robert Schuman, the French foreign minister, a lawyer from the disputed region near the French-West German border, worked together on the "Schuman Plan, " which Schuman proposed on May 9, 1950.
In 1966, he bought the property near Kazan, the region's capital, and built the bunker as a religious school, it said.
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The US says it is continuing to bomb a suspected al-Qaeda compound in the Khost region, near the border with Pakistan.
She also suggests investors look away from Germany to other parts of core Europe at companies which have sales outside of the region at near 40% or above.
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Hendley: We created a partnership with Zakat (a U.S.-based Muslim charity), and right now we're actively working in two camps in the northwestern region, near border areas between Syria and Turkey.
The groups opposed to the deal - including Amra Bangali, Jana Jagaran and Jana Chetana - held a 24-hour strike in the plains near the Darjeeling hill region to protest against the deal.
Three weeks ago, three soldiers were killed when they hit a mine near Douentza in the central region.
Moroccan armed forces are reported to have launched an attack on a protest camp near the capital of the region, Laayoune.
Five thousand inhabitants of Nanhua country in Yunnan Province had no choice but to leave their homes in mountainous areas and set up camp near streams in a lowland region.
The first plant is to be built in the desert region of Mathania, near Jodhpur.
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