2016／4／14 熊本 緊急地震速報 また震度7
A Strong 7 megnitude Earthquake hit Japan's Southwestern island of Kyushu.
At least nine people died when an earthquake shook southwestern Japan's Kyushu island late Thursday.
Two deaths occurred in Mashiki, One person died in a collapsed house, and the other died in a fire caused by the quake.
That scores of buildings had either collapsed or caught fire, while the tremors triggered landslides, tore up roads and in one case, derailed a bullet train.
Nearly 800 people were injured, 50 severely. The prefecture office said 44,449 people had evacuated.
Kumamoto Prefecture is in the center of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four major Japanese islands. It is bordered by the Ariake inland sea and the Amakusa archipelago to the west, Fukuoka Prefecture and Ōita Prefecture to the north, Miyazaki Prefecture to the east, and Kagoshima Prefecture to the south.
