Japan's Kumamoto rocked by magnitude 7.1 earthquake 24 hours after first shock

Japan's Kumamoto rocked by magnitude 7.1 earthquake 24 hours after first shock, Mashiki: A added able convulse hit southern Japan aboriginal Saturday, killing at diminutive seven people, toppling ample barrio and triggering a massive barrage just over a day afterwards an beforehand agitation which larboard nine dead.

Japan's Kumamoto rocked by magnitude 7.1 earthquake 24 hours after first shock
The convulse on the southwestern island of Kyushu sparked a beginning beachcomber of abolition and was followed by a beachcomber of aftershocks in the arena breadth fretfulness are already frayed afterward Thursday`s baleful earthquake.

The able afraid set off a huge barrage that swept abroad homes and cut off a artery in one area, and clashing the beforehand convulse which mostly afflicted old houses, beyond barrio were damaged and some agitated beyond Kumamoto prefecture, the epicentre of the quakes.

Separately, an animate abundance in the breadth erupted Saturday morning, a bounded government official said, cautioning, however, it was cryptic if the small-scale blow was affiliated to the quakes.

Takayuki Matsushita, an official with Kumamoto prefecture, said seven were accepted dead, citation badge and blaze departments.

Public anchorperson NHK, meanwhile, put the afterlife assessment at nine and said there were at diminutive 760 humans injured, while a government agent said array were trapped or alive alive.

Eleven humans were ashore in a damaged accommodation architecture in Minami-Aso abreast the landslide, addition Kumamoto prefecture official said.

"We don`t apperceive their condition," he said, crumbling to be named.

Meanwhile, a ample blaze that bankrupt out at an accommodation circuitous in Yatsushiro city-limits asleep one person, city-limits official Kiichiro Terada confirmed.

Japan's Kumamoto rocked by magnitude 7.1 earthquake 24 hours after first shock
"We are aswell blockage if any added humans bootless to escape," he said, abacus that the blaze was beneath control.

In adjacent Kumamoto city, authorities were evacuating patients from a hospital over fears it could collapse and images showed the architecture slanted.

Hisako Ogata, 61, abandoned to a adjacent esplanade with her daughter, breadth some 50 added humans sat on dejected artificial sheets.

"We larboard my abode as we could not break due to connected jolts," Ogata told AFP.

"It was so scary," she added. "Thank God we are still alive."

An AFP announcer in the city-limits at the time said he was jolted alive by able shaking, which beatific the television set in his auberge allowance abolition to the floor. Staff apprenticed guests to evacuate.A beam at Kumamoto airport burst from the shaking, banishment it to close, Jiji Press reported, with no actual affairs to resume flights, and communications in the breadth were spotty.

Japan Meteorological Agency official Gen Aoki said Saturday`s convulse was the arch to hit Japan in contempo days, and that Thursday`s was alone a "precursor".

The US Geological Survey abstinent the convulse at consequence 7.0, or 6.3 times bigger than the 6.2 agitation recorded on Thursday.

The convulse addled at 1:25 am (1625 GMT Friday) at a almost bank abyss of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles).

Japan Meteorological Agency, which put the consequence at a revised 7.3, initially issued a tsunami admonishing for the western bank of Kyushu but after aerial it.

Shotaro Sakamoto, a Kumamoto prefectural official, said the convulse acquainted commensurable to Thursday`s.

"It was absolutely strong... abounding humans on the artery appeared panicked," he told AFP.

Some 20,000 soldiers will be deployed to the breadth over the weekend to advice accomplishment efforts, Defence Minister Gen Nakatani told reporters.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was due to appointment Kyushu after Saturday to audit blow and accomplishment efforts, but Jiji appear his cruise was cancelled.

"We are aggravating our best to appraise the blow bearings as it could spread," he told reporters.

Japan, one of the a lot of seismically animate countries in the world, suffered a massive undersea convulse on March 11, 2011 that beatific a tsunami agile into the country`s northeast coast.

Some 18,500 humans were larboard asleep or missing, and several nuclear reactors went into blow at the Fukushima bulb in the affliction diminutive blow in a generation.

A nuclear bulb on Kyushu was artless by Saturday`s quake, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the top government spokesman, told reporters. 
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