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There are no new alerts at this time A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Japan on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate and prompting the collapse of several buildings, including a shopping mall. Japanese officials instructed roughly 300,000 people in the country’s southern Kumamoto prefecture to seek shelter at evacuation centers. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 and depth of just over 6 miles, was at the highest end of the seismic intensity scale. Geological Survey later revised its measurement to a 6.8 magnitude .
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There are no new alerts at this time A 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Japan on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate and prompting the collapse of several buildings, including a shopping mall. Japanese officials instructed roughly 300,000 people in the country’s southern Kumamoto prefecture to seek shelter at evacuation centers. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 and depth of just over 6 miles, was at the highest end of the seismic intensity scale. Its epicenter was about 12 miles south of Kumamoto, central Kyushu island’s largest city, with a population of around 700,000, according to officials.
There are no new alerts at this time A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Japan on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate and prompting the collapse of several buildings, including a shopping mall. Japanese officials instructed roughly 300,000 people in the country’s southern Kumamoto prefecture to seek shelter at evacuation centers. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 and depth of just over 6 miles, was at the highest end of the seismic intensity scale. Geological Survey later revised its measurement to a 6.8 magnitude .
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