Japan’s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) reports a preliminary magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture. Emergency warnings have been issued for Kumamoto and six other prefectures. Damage, casualties, and tsunami risk are still being assessed.
A preliminary magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu at 10:27 Jerusalem time, 11 minutes before the report was published, according to Japan’s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED). Emergency warnings were issued for Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Saga, Oita, and Miyazaki prefectures. The institute is assessing damage, casualties, and potential tsunami risk. Japan has seen a series of significant earthquakes in recent weeks, including a magnitude 7.2 quake off northeastern Japan on June 25 and a magnitude 5.6 tremor in central Japan on June 26, as The Zioneer reported.
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