{"id":80386,"date":"2026-07-29T03:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/in-pictures-buildings-damaged-after-powerful-earthquake-hits-south-west-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:26:42","slug":"in-pictures-buildings-damaged-after-powerful-earthquake-hits-south-west-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/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":80387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[846,1524,3734,667,1703,135,13044,1749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80388,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80386\/revisions\/80388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}