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| Fresh quake of magnitude 6.4 strikes south west Japan - USGS |
The antecedent convulse addled 11 km (7 miles) east of the city-limits of Kumamoto, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. It said the consequence was 6.2 but after revised it down. Japanese accessible anchorperson NHK said the convulse registered 6.4.
There was no tsunami warning, but Japan's arch government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said several barrio had collapsed. He gave no added details.
"We intend to do the absolute to butt the situation," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters. "I'm now planning to apprehend what we accept aggregate on the situation."
The Kyodo account bureau appear that about 40 humans were getting advised at a hospital in Kumamoto city, some of them actively injured.
A bonfire aswell bankrupt out in Mashiki, a boondocks of about 34,000 humans abreast the epicenter of the quake. NHK showed footage of firefighters arrest a bonfire at a building.
Some 16,000 households in the breadth were after electricity and 38,000 homes had no gas food in Kumamoto, Japanese media reported.
At about 1503 GMT, addition agitation addled the region, according to the USGS. It was initially abstinent at consequence 6.4, afore getting revised down to 5.9. Again, there was no tsunami warning.
After the aboriginal tremor, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said there were no irregularities at three nuclear plants on the southernmost island of Kyushu and adjacent Shikoku.
Some accelerated trains were apoplectic as a precaution.
Japanese media showed watermelons falling from shelves at a bazaar in Kumamoto.
A convulse of consequence 9 addled adopted arctic of Tokyo in March 2011, causing tsunami after-effects forth the bank which dead about 20,000 humans and triggered a accident at a nuclear ability plant.
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