At least 13 dead in Japan after powerful earthquake

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Una vista aérea muestra el centro comercial Aeon Mall dañado, donde, según los medios locales, ocurrió una explosión después de que un terremoto con una magnitud preliminar de 7.1 sacudiera la prefectura de Kumamoto, en el sur de Japón. © Kyodo vía Reuters 01:28 Issued on: 29/07/2026 - 10:54Modified: 29/07/2026 - 10:54 After a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan on July 28, the country's Prime Minister said thirteen people had died, including five in a factory, so far and many were injured. The rescue work is ongoing to find those still missing. The earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu. Japan is one of the world's most seismically active countries, sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific "Ring of Fire". Keywords for this article