A girl huddles her dog outside her house, after strong earthquakes hit Ojiya in northern Japan, October 24, 2004. Thousands of weary and frightened residents of northern Japan prepared to spend a second night in shelters, cars or in the open on Sunday after Japan's deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 20 people. More than 1,500 were injured when a 6.8 magnitude quake and a series of powerful aftershocks struck rural Niigata, some 250 Km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, on Saturday, setting off landslides, wrecking houses and buckling railway tracks. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama KM/LA