Saturday 16 April 2016

Another earthquake hits Japan killing 29 and injuring over 1,500 people


At least 29 people have been killed and at least 1,500 injured in the second earthquake to hit Japan in two days. The powerful earthquake rocked the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto in the middle of the night, a day after an earlier tremor killed nine people. The magnitude-7.3 quake hit at a depth of 10km (six miles) at 01:25 on Saturday (15:25 GMT on Friday) in Kyushu region. At least three people died and hundreds were injured. A village has been evacuated after a dam collapsed, media reports say. A tsunami warning was issued, and lifted some 50 minutes later. Japan is regularly hit by earthquakes but stringent building codes mean that they rarely cause significant damage. This new earthquake in Kyushu was much bigger and hit a wider area than the one that struck Kumamoto on Thursday night, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.



Thousands of people have fled on to the streets and into parks - where they are huddled under blankets looking dazed and afraid, our correspondent says. But there are numerous reports of people trapped inside buildings, including at least 60 inside an old people's home. Japan's nuclear authority said the Sendai nuclear plant was not damaged.

2 comments:

  1. good to know the casualty was reduced sue to proper planning

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