There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, or of a tsunami warning. A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu on Thursday, collapsing homes and sparking at least one fire, officials said, but the scale of damage remained unclear. The quake struck at 9:26 pm (1226 GMT) in Kumamoto prefecture, central Kyushu, at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometres,...
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