Japan Earthquake Kills 5, Leaves 9 Missing as 50,000 Homes Lose Power
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 29
Japan Earthquake Kills 5, Leaves 9 Missing as 50,000 Homes Lose Power
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 29
Summary
Five people were confirmed dead and nine workers remained missing after the 6.8-magnitude quake hit Kumamoto on Tuesday, with rescue crews searching a collapsed paper-mill chimney in Yatsushiro.
More than 350 people were treated at hospitals as nearly 50,000 households lost power and 140,000 lost water, while about 300,000 residents were told to evacuate.
3,600 military personnel, 20 aircraft and hundreds of outside responders were deployed as JR Kyushu halted trains, Kumamoto airport shut its runway and mobile networks suffered outages.
More than 60 aftershocks have already been recorded, and the weather agency warned of another week of strong tremors and landslides from the shallow quake.
Despite shindo 7 shaking, relatively few buildings collapsed, reflecting stricter quake-resistant standards in a region still marked by the 2016 Kumamoto disaster.