A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck southern Japan early Saturday, barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the same region and killed nine people. Japanese broadcaster NHK said a number of calls were coming in from residents reporting people being trapped inside houses and buildings. Share Go To The quake shook the Kumamoto region at 1.25am on Saturday, and several aftershocks soon followed. Japan's Meteorological Agency issued an advisory for a tsunami up to one metre (three feet) high along the coast west of the epicentre in Kumamoto; the advisory was lifted less than an hour later. Sirens of patrol vehicles were heard on the background as NHK reported from...
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