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Strong quake kills 2 injures 45 in Japan

TOKYO (AP) — At least two people were killed and 45 injured by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake that knocked down houses and buckled roads in southern Japan on Thursday night. Both victims are from the...

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Strong quake kills 9, injures more than 800 in Japan

KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) — At least nine people were killed and more than 800 injured by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that toppled houses and buckled roads in southern Japan, the government's chief spokesman...

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Japan earthquakes: Death toll at 41 as rescuers rush to trapped residents

MASHIKI, Japan — Army troops and other rescuers rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents after a pair of strong earthquakes in southwestern Japan killed at least 41 people, injured...

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Japan earthquake: Death toll at 41 as rescuers rush to trapped residents

MASHIKI, Japan — Army troops and other rescuers rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents after a pair of strong earthquakes in southwestern Japan killed at least 41 people, injured...

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Strong quake hurts 45 in south Japan; traps people in houses

TOKYO (AP) -- Rescuers in southern Japan were searching for trapped residents in at least two dozen collapsed houses after a powerful 6.5 earthquake struck Thursday evening with a force that knocked...

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Second strong quake hits southern Japan; some reported trapped

MASHIKI, Japan – A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck southern Japan early Saturday, barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the same region and killed nine people. While...

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Second strong quake hits southern Japan

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck southern Japan early Saturday, barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the same region and killed 10 people. It was not immediately...

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Japan earthquakes kill at least 32, rescue operations underway

Japan earthquake: Houses are seen destroyed after an earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. (Ryosuke Uematsu/Kyodo News via AP) Army troops and other...

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Strong quake kills 2 injures 45 in Japan

TOKYO (AP) -- At least two people were killed and 45 injured by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake that knocked down houses and buckled roads in southern Japan on Thursday night. Both victims are from the...

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Strong quake kills 9, injures more than 800 in Japan

KUMAMOTO, Japan — At least nine people were killed and more than 800 injured by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that toppled houses and buckled roads in southern Japan, the government's chief spokesman said...

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Japan earthquake survivor: 'I thought I was going to die'

MASHIKI, Japan — A still shocked resident from a town in southern Japan recounted his terror the previous night as he examined the damage Friday from a powerful earthquake that brought down buildings...

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Strong quake hurts 45 in south Japan; traps people in houses

TOKYO (AP) — Rescuers in southern Japan were searching for trapped residents in at least two dozen collapsed houses after a powerful 6.5 earthquake struck Thursday evening with a force that knocked out...

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Strong quake strikes Japan’s Kyushu Island, killing at least 2

TOKYO — At least two people were killed and 45 injured by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that knocked down houses and buckled roads in southern Japan on Thursday night. Both...

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Strong quake kills 2 injures 45 in Japan

TOKYO (AP) — At least two people were killed and 45 injured by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake that knocked down houses and buckled roads in southern Japan on Thursday night. Both victims are from the...

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Strong quake kills 9, injures more than 800 in Japan

KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) — At least nine people were killed and more than 800 injured by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that toppled houses and buckled roads in southern Japan, the government's chief spokesman...

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Strong earthquake injures two in Japan

No danger of tsunami from the inland earthquake, says Japan Meteorological Agency ......

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Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits Japan

A tsunami advisory has been issued after magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck near Kumamoto in southern Japan on Friday at a depth of 25 miles. Read more ......

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5.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan

An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook the Fukushima Prefecture and northeast Japan on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. ......

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Tent community closed in quake-hit town

MASHIKI, Japan - People put away tents in the earthquake-damaged southwestern Japan town of Mashiki on May 31, 2016, ... ......

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Strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits southwestern Japan, no danger of tsunami

Tokyo, Apr 14: A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu on Thursday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, local authorities said. The quake struck in Kumamoto,...

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