Japan quake leaves dozens missing as rescuers search collapsed mall
A powerful earthquake struck Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture, collapsing part of a shopping mall and leaving workers missing. Rescue teams face damaged infrastructure, continuing aftershocks and extreme heat.
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A powerful earthquake struck Japan’s southern island of Kyushu at 4:27 p.m. Tuesday, reaching the maximum 7 on the country’s seismic-intensity scale in parts of Kumamoto Prefecture. Japan’s weather agency put the preliminary magnitude at 7.1 and the depth at roughly 16 kilometers.english Authorities ordered about 300,000 people to evacuation centers as fires, blackouts and structural damage were reported across the region.aljazeera +1
The most urgent operation centered on Aeon Mall Kumamoto in Kashima, where the second floor partly collapsed after an explosion. Between 20 and 30 employees were unaccounted for, while emergency crews pulled several people from the wreckage and took them to hospital.npr Police said about 200 people had evacuated before the blast, but its cause remained under investigation.theguardian +1
Damage spreads across transport and utilities
One person was confirmed dead after a house collapsed in Yatsushiro, and hospitals in Kumamoto and Yatsushiro received scores of injured people. A smokestack also fell at a Nippon Paper Industries plant, leaving several workers unaccounted for, while a freight train derailed and overturned at Yatsushiro Station without injuring its driver.nbcnews +1
About 48,000 households lost electricity and more than 10,500 lost water service. JR Kyushu suspended bullet and local trains, all remaining domestic flights from Aso Kumamoto Airport were canceled for the day, and a shifted bridge left part of the Minami-Kyushu Expressway impassable.english Mobile service was disrupted by power and transmission failures, and stone walls at Kumamoto Castle crumbled.theguardian
Nearby manufacturers moved to protect staff and equipment. TSMC said personnel at its Kumamoto plant were safe after evacuation and structural checks, while Sony and Fujifilm also cleared workers from local sites.aljazeera Honda expected its Kumamoto factory to remain shut until Wednesday evening, and Toyota halted work at three plants in Fukuoka.english
Aftershocks and extreme heat complicate the response
Tsunami advisories for the Ariake and Yatsushiro seas were lifted within two hours. Regulators reported no abnormalities at the Sendai and Genkai nuclear plants, and radiation readings around them were unchanged.npr +1 Hundreds of soldiers were deployed as local police and firefighters continued life-saving searches.aljazeera
The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that similarly intense shaking could recur over the next several days. More than 60 aftershocks had already been recorded, and officials cautioned that landslide danger could persist for about a week.theguardian Forecast temperatures of at least 35 degrees Celsius in Kumamoto add heatstroke risk for evacuees and rescuers.english
The disaster struck a prefecture still marked by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence, which killed about 270 people. That history, combined with damaged roads, interrupted communications and continuing tremors, leaves the initial casualty picture vulnerable to rapid revision as crews reach the hardest-hit sites.npr +1
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