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On September 25, 2003, the 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan. The year's #1 song was "In da Club" by 50 Cent. Jackson Merrill, Xavi Simons, Xavier Worthy would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · September 25, 2003
The 2003 Tokachi earthquake, known in Japanese as the 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake , occurred off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan on 26 September at 04:50 local time. 3 on the moment magnitude scale, making it the most powerful earthquake of 2003, as well as one of the most intense earthquakes to hit Japan since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
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2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.
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The 2003 Tokachi earthquake, known in Japanese as the 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake , occurred off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan on 26 September at 04:50 local time. 3 on the moment magnitude scale, making it the most powerful earthquake of 2003, as well as one of the most intense earthquakes to hit Japan since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
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