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
Five adults drowned one after another in the Scioto River in Powell, Ohio, after jumping in to save a struggling swimmer, leaving their young children stranded on the bank, screaming for help no one could give in time. The chain of deaths began around 9 p.m. on a Sunday evening when one member of a […] The post Five friends drowned in Ohio river rescue chain as children watched from shore appeared first on American Almanac .
Five adults drowned one after another in the Scioto River in Powell, Ohio, after jumping in to save a struggling swimmer, leaving their young children stranded on the bank, screaming for help no one could give in time. The chain of deaths began around 9 p.m. on a Sunday evening when one member of a group of friends waded into the river and started fighting the current. Two others rushed in to help. When they, too, went under, the final two adults entered the water. None of the five made it back to shore. On the nearby bank, children who had come with the group watched it all happen. One child ran along a road in a panic until a passing motorist spotted the boy and called 911. Emergency radio traffic captured the scale of the disaster in…Open
The group is believed to have been fishing at the river, when at some point one of the adults went in to go swimming and started to struggle, authorities said.
The accident in the San Francisco Bay on Tuesday led to the death of the boat owner’s brother. The authorities say they plan to end the search for three people still missing.
One person died, three people were missing and 16 were rescued from the waters off San Francisco after a boat sank Tuesday afternoon while carrying mostly family members as part of a memorial service, authorities said. (AP) #Alcatraz #Boat #Sinking
