Typhoon Dolphin barreled over Japan's southern islands on Friday, closing Okinawa's main airport and driving 240 people into evacuation shelters, while residents on the mainland scrambled to protect homes already damaged by last week's earthquake. Naha Airport, the primary air hub on Okinawa Island, shut down Friday as the storm moved through, and authorities canceled […] The post Typhoon Dolphin shuts down Okinawa's main airport, forces hundreds into shelters appeared first on American Almanac .
Typhoon Dolphin barreled over Japan's southern islands on Friday, closing Okinawa's main airport and driving 240 people into evacuation shelters, while residents on the mainland scrambled to protect homes already damaged by last week's earthquake. Naha Airport, the primary air hub on Okinawa Island, shut down Friday as the storm moved through, and authorities canceled every domestic and international flight in and out of the facility. The Japan Meteorological Agency placed the typhoon just north of Okinawa's main island by Friday afternoon, packing maximum sustained winds of 89 miles per hour, strong enough to ground all air traffic and send residents indoors, NBC News reported . Three men in their 70s sustained minor injuries. Okinawa…Open
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in southwestern Japan has killed 34 people and left thousands sleeping in cars and crowded shelters without water, and now a heat wave is compounding the misery. Three days after the quake struck Kyushu, Japan's southern main island, rescuers with search dogs were still combing collapsed buildings in Kumamoto Prefecture on […] The post Kumamoto earthquake survivors endure 97-degree heat in cars as Japan's death toll hits 34 appeared first on American Almanac .
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in southwestern Japan has killed 34 people and left thousands sleeping in cars and crowded shelters without water, and now a heat wave is compounding the misery. Three days after the quake struck Kyushu, Japan's southern main island, rescuers with search dogs were still combing collapsed buildings in Kumamoto Prefecture on Friday while survivors faced temperatures that peaked at 36 degrees Celsius, 97 degrees Fahrenheit. Japan's weather agency and Ministry of the Environment issued an extreme heat alert for Kumamoto city, where more than 9,000 displaced residents were packed into shelters and an unknown number of others had nowhere to go but their vehicles. The Kumamoto prefectural government confirmed the…Open
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in southern Japan has killed at least 34 people and left thousands without power or water, with rescue crews racing a brutal heat wave to reach survivors still trapped in rubble. The quake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu late Tuesday afternoon, ripping through a crowded shopping mall, toppling […] The post Japan earthquake death toll reaches 34 as rescue hopes fade in Kumamoto appeared first on American Almanac .
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in southern Japan has killed at least 34 people and left thousands without power or water, with rescue crews racing a brutal heat wave to reach survivors still trapped in rubble. The quake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu late Tuesday afternoon, ripping through a crowded shopping mall, toppling a factory chimney, and flattening homes across several towns. By Thursday, the death toll had nearly doubled from the previous day's count, and officials acknowledged they still did not know how many people remained missing. Kumamoto's prefectural government reported 86 people injured, five of them seriously, while more than 9,000 residents sheltered in roughly 400 emergency sites across the region.…Open
Time was running out to find survivors, as rescuers continued to work in the Kumamoto area on Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu, where the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Tuesday.
Emergency crews outside an Aeon Mall in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Tuesday after the second floor of the building collapsed in the wake of a major earthquake. | Defense Ministry / via JIJI Published July 29, 2026 [...]
Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 13 people.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit near the heart of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Monday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall, trapping workers at a paper factory, and leaving police reporting "a lot of deaths" as rescue crews worked into the night. The quake hit at 4:27 p.m. local time, 2:27 a.m. Eastern, and registered magnitude 7.1 […] The post Magnitude 7.1 earthquake collapses mall in southern Japan, leaves at least nine missing and feared dead appeared first on American Almanac .
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Monday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall, trapping workers at a paper factory, and leaving police reporting "a lot of deaths" as rescue crews worked into the night. The quake hit at 4:27 p.m. local time, 2:27 a.m. Eastern, and registered magnitude 7.1 on the Japan Meteorological Agency's scale, the agency's highest possible intensity rating of 7 on the Shindo scale. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it slightly lower, at 6.8. Either reading placed it among the strongest to strike the country this year, and the damage on the ground bore that out within minutes. In Kashima, a city in Kumamoto prefecture, the second floor of an Aeon Mall shopping center…Open
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Tuesday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall and trapping an unknown number of people inside, with police telling Japanese media there were "a lot of deaths" at the site. The magnitude 7.1 quake hit the Kumamoto region at 4:27 p.m. local time, according […] The post Magnitude 7.1 earthquake collapses shopping mall in southern Japan, leaves dozens trapped or missing appeared first on American Almanac .
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Tuesday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall and trapping an unknown number of people inside, with police telling Japanese media there were "a lot of deaths" at the site. The magnitude 7.1 quake hit the Kumamoto region at 4:27 p.m. local time, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, sending violent shaking across the southern end of the country's main island chain. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the event at a lower magnitude of 6.8, a discrepancy that remains unresolved between the two agencies. By either measure, the quake registered at the highest possible level, 7, on Japan's Shindo intensity scale, a reading that signals catastrophic ground…Open