Japan earthquake: Search for survivors continues after Kumamoto quake kills 14

Japan earthquake: Search for survivors continues after Kumamoto quake kills 14

Rescue teams face ‘race against time’ in search for trapped survivors as death toll in Japan rises to at least 13

Emergency workers are continuing their search for survivors in southern Japan after yesterday’s powerful earthquake ‘Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing An aerial view of a collapsed section of a bridge in the city of Yatsushiro after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture: Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun newspaper has been speaking to people at the Nippon Paper Industries factory in Yatsushiro, where a chimney collapsed on to the site. “I never imagined something like this would happen,” sa...

Japan earthquake: 'Race against time' to find survivors as deaths reach 18

Rescuers search for survivors after a 7.1 quake kills 18 in southwestern Japan

Japan searches for earthquake survivors as thousands evacuate

After a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan on July 28, the country's prime minister said 13 people had died so far and many were injured. The rescue work is ongoing to find those still missing. The earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, forcing over 260,000 people to evacuate. Roads were ruptured while homes across the region saw power knocked out.

Japan: Hospitals struggle after deadly Kumamoto earthquake

Rescuers are searching for survivors after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck southern Japan, killing over a dozen people and causing widespread damage.

I thought I would die': Survivors describe shock and horror of powerful Japan earthquake

Rescue operations are ongoing following the 6.8-magnitude quake, as survivors wrestle with the shock.

Rescuers search for survivors after 7.1 quake kills 18 in southwestern Japan

Soldiers and emergency workers combed through rubble looking for survivors Wednesday after an earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southwestern Japan.

The shaking was terrifying’: stories of survival and loss emerge after Japan earthquake

Rescuers pulling people from the wreckage in southern Japan in a haunting repeat of disaster that struck 10 years ago ‘Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing “There was a voice coming from the collapsed house, and I could see a hand,” Tomohide Nagata, a volunteer firefighter, told the Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun. “One of our senior members crawled in and pulled him out. He was bleeding from the head, but I’m so glad he survived.” Nagata had heard a noise coming from one completely flattened home in the rural town of Hikawa, close to the epic...

At least 13 killed in Japan earthquake as rescuers search for survivors in a ‘race against time

At least 13 people have been killed in southwestern Japan after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday, as rescuers searched for people trapped in collapsed buildings, including a shopping mall.

Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing

Military mobilises thousands of personnel after quake on southern Kyushu island that registered a maximum 7 on the Japanese shindo intensity scale Earthquake rocks southern Japanese island of Kyushu – in pictures At least 13 people were killed when a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Japan on Tuesday, injuring hundreds and knocking out power and water to tens of thousands. “There are people who are still waiting to be rescued, and it’s a race against time,” the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said on Wednesday. “We will go all out to find and rescue as many people as we can.” Continu...