Asia rattled by 2 strong quakes

TOKYO, Japan - Two strong earthquakes rattled Asia on Thursday, triggering alerts for a tsunami that harmlessly lapped Japan's northern coast and another in Indonesia that didn't materialize but briefly sent residents fleeing to high ground. The more powerful of the quakes, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0, hit off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido at a depth of about 12 miles, the country's... [read full story]