31.   The quakes occurred near a popular seaside resort where Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Russian President Boris Yeltsin held talks over the weekend.

32.   The quake occurred in January of that year.

33.   The quake occurred just before darkness, and information was still being compiled early Tuesday, she said.

34.   The quake occurred in Kushiro on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, the agency said.

35.   The quakes occurred in the province of Irian Jaya, the most remote of the quake-prone Indonesian archipelago.

36.   The Taiwan quake occurred along a reverse-strike fault.

37.   Though low-magnitude quakes occur regularly throughout Spain, the Basque region is rarely affected.

38.   He said that when the quake occurred, most people were at home and many victims may have died as their houses collapsed.

39.   A vertical quake occurs when seismic plates grate up and down against each other.