{"id":57587,"date":"2026-07-29T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/in-pictures-buildings-damaged-after-powerful-earthquake-hits-south-west-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:26:10","slug":"in-pictures-buildings-damaged-after-powerful-earthquake-hits-south-west-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/in-pictures-buildings-damaged-after-powerful-earthquake-hits-south-west-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Buildings damaged after powerful earthquake hits south-west Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck south-west Japan on Tuesday, trapping some people under rubble, and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The quake hit Kyushu island at 16:27 local time (07:27 GMT) and after shocks have continued to rumble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At a large and popular shopping mall in the Kumamoto prefecture, the second floor collapsed, trapping people inside the centre, while a chimney fell at a paper factory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage aired by national broadcaster NHK showed cracked roads and bridges and several buildings on fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Japan, which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, is one of the world&#8217;s most earthquake-prone countries. It experiences about 1,500 quakes a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyer9mdjz7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck south-west Japan on Tuesday, trapping some people under rubble, and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate. The quake hit Kyushu island at 16:27 local time (07:27 GMT) and after shocks have continued to rumble. At a large and popular shopping mall in the Kumamoto prefecture, the second floor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[10984,1475,2004,667,3940,135,5192,3406],"class_list":["post-57587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-pictures","tag-buildings","tag-damaged","tag-earthquake","tag-hits","tag-japan","tag-pictures","tag-powerful","tag-southwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57589,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57587\/revisions\/57589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}