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nine killed, over eight hundred fifty injured in deadliest Japan quake since Fukushima (PHOTOS, Movies)
A man in his 60s and a woman in her 50s have been pronounced dead at a hospital in Kumamoto City. Earlier, two more deaths have also been confirmed: one person was killed after being crushed by a collapsing building, the other died in a fire that broke out after the quake.
More than eight hundred fifty people have reportedly been injured in the quake with at least four hundred being treated at local hospitals, NHK said.
There is presently no information on whether any Russian residents are among the injured, Tass news agency reports, citing the Russian Embassy in Japan.
The quake hit at 9:26 p.m. local time (12:26 GMT), eleven kilometers (7 miles) east of the city of Kumamoto. It had a depth of ten kilometers (6.Two miles).
An aftershock measuring Five.7 struck the region about forty minutes after the quake, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a separate tremor measuring Five.9 struck a duo hours later.
La classique scène de la pancarte d’un bureau de chaîne télé qui vibre. #Kumamotopic.twitter.com/jiAwfUmqEp
Mashiko, a village close to the epicenter, suffered the worst harm, with over twenty buildings ruined and several fires reported. The rescue operations are presently underway, with some four hundred defense coerces personnel deployed to help look through the debris during the night.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters that the government intends “to do our utmost and carry on with life-saving and rescue operations across the night.”
Local police said they received reports that several people were trapped under collapsed houses, NHK reported. They also said that several traffic lights lost power after the quake.
“Papers, files, flower vases and everything fell on the floor,” Kasumi Nakamura, an official in the village of Nishihara, located near the epicenter, said.
He said the rattling began puny but then grew violent, lasting about thirty seconds.
The situation at the apartment building of a friend in #Kumamoto after M6.Four quake. pic.twitter.com/XHmA9wR9kB
Some 16,500 households were left without electrical play and 38,000 homes had no gas supplies, Reuters reported, citing Japanese Kyushu Electrical Power Co Inc. Some high-speed trains were halted as a precaution.
Meantime, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority said there were no irregularities at three nuclear plants on the southernmost island of Kyushu and nearby Shikoku.
The USGS put the quake at a 6.0 magnitude.
The Japan Meteorological Agency originally issued a tsunami warning, but later canceled it.
