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Residents of a remote island chain in southwestern Japan have been evacuating as earthquakes continue, and a second group has now left.

A magnitude 5.1 quake shook Akusekijima, part of the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, early Monday morning. It registered a lower 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of zero to 7.

Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on Thursday, the latest of more than 1,000 recent jolts to hit the area.

A total of 46 evacuees left Akusekijima and Kodakarajima aboard a ferry Sunday morning after a series of strong earthquakes rocked the Tokara chain islands in the village of Toshima, Kagoshima ...

Akusekijima Island in the Tokara island chain is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter in this April 2008 file photo. (Mainichi/Takeshi Noda) TOKYO -- An earthquake swarm has hit close to ...

In Akusekijima, the seismic impact reached a significant 6-lower on Japan's 7-point intensity scale. Meanwhile, nearby Kodakarajima experienced a 3 on the scale, with tremors of varying strengths ...