Local media said most of the injured were elderly people tripping in panic as walls cracked and goods fell off shelves. 
	No tsunami warning was issued. 
	The epicentre was registered just south of Kobe, where a magnitude-7.2 quake killed more than 6,400 people in 1995.//DPA 
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