KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) — Rural communities in southwestern Japan were struggling to get their lives back to normal Thursday, two days after a powerful earthquake set off an explosion at a mall, toppled a factory chimney and flattened homes, killing at least 23 people. Time was running out to find...
KUMAMOTO (Jiji Press)--The death toll from Tuesday 's powerful earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, reached 18 on Thursday morning, while searches continued for people whose whereabouts are unknown. As of 11 a.m., 18 were confirmed dead after the quake with an estimated...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)--A powerful earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday was caused by movement along part of the Hinagu fault zone, which also triggered major earthquakes in the southwestern Japan prefecture a decade ago, a Japanese government research panel has said. The...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledged Wednesday to disburse ordinary local allocation tax grants ahead of schedule to municipalities affected by Tuesday 's powerful earthquake in the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto. The administration will continue to provide...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)--The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan has said the ground surface in the city of Yatsushiro in Kumamoto Prefecture moved about 87 centimeters in a northeasterly direction following Tuesday 's strong earthquake that rocked the southwestern Japan prefecture. The...
KUMAMOTO (Jiji Press)--Aeon Co. President and CEO Akio Yoshida apologized Wednesday for the deaths of three people following an explosion that occurred at the Japanese company 's Aeon Mall Kumamoto shopping facility after a powerful earthquake the previous day. "I seriously take the situation...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Quezon province on Wednesday evening, July 29, with tremors felt in parts of Luzon, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). Phivolcs said the earthquake struck at 10:11 p.m. Its epicenter was traced 93 kilometers northeast of...
KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) — Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southwestern Japan. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake...
KUMAMOTO (Jiji Press)--Police, firefighters and Self-Defense Force personnel continued search-and-rescue operations on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan the previous day. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that the death toll from the...
TOKYO (AP) — A 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday, leaving several people dead and dozens of others injured or missing after part of a shopping center and a huge chimney at a paper factory collapsed, officials said. A tsunami advisory was...
COTABATO CITY – For saving lives while risking their own during the June 8 magnitude-7.8 earthquake, four high school students of Maasim, Sarangani province were recognized for their extraordinary courage on Monday. The recognition was awarded by the personnel of the 1st Platoon, 1204th Maneuver...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck offshore Davao Occidental on Sunday afternoon, July 19, as an aftershock of the powerful earthquakes that shook the area in June, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. In its Earthquake Information No. 1, Phivolcs said the tremor...
