7.1 Earthquake in Japan

vaylian

Does anyone know if this also affects South Korea?

TZubiri

7.1 seems to mean non resistant buildings may collapse.

what_hn

Shit hope everyone is ok.

minraws

Tldr; Seems like major cities didn't get hit by the earthquake at 7 scale. Hoping for zero casualities.

canpan

Similar strength and location as the 2016 one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kumamoto_earthquakes

ButlerianJihad

United States Geological Survey https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=21.04224... Live NHK-WORLD-NEWS feed (English-language commentator) https://www.youtube.com/live/f0lYkdA-Gtw?si=Sc8ZbldZUQESiJQZ

mrwaffle

Was looking at webcams here ( https://tokyo.fyi ) but realized this is further south.

tkgally

In parts of Kumamoto Prefecture, it registered 7 on the Japanese shindo (seismic intensity) scale, which reflects the amount of ground shaking at a particular location. The shindo is a better indicator of the likely amount of damage than the magnitude is. A shindo of 7 is extremely strong [1]. Ten minutes ago (at around 17:15 p.m. Japan time), NHK was reporting that there were many emergency calls coming in from Uki City, where shindo 7 was recorded, but that the extent of the damage or injuries was not yet known. There have also been many aftershocks, including some strong ones, and tsunami warnings. [1] https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/jishintsunami/jishin...

kuczmama

I'm living in the South of Japan, it was a 4 intensity where I am (about 90km) from the epicenter. Luckily there was only some light shaking and nothing fell over here.

DiscourseFan

Kumamoto is barely finished rebuilding from the last quake, you can still see cracks in structures as you drive down the road. This is really horrible; not to mention the city is already beginning to depopulate as the youth move north to Fukuoka.

41d

I hope everyone is safe in Kumamoto. In my area, we have been repeatedly warned that a major earthquake called the Nankai Trough is likely to occur in the last few years or decades, so I am very scared of big earthquakes happening in other areas as well.

asdaqopqkq

arent they trying to make silicon fabs there?

shoobiedoo

Fukuoka here (about 100km from Kumamoto) and definitely felt it, so it must have been a real big one in Kumamoto itself. My friend was driving home from work closer to Miyazaki and didn't feel the quake, but had huge hailstones hitting his car. There's a rapture going on or something

numpad0

- at least 50 hospitalized due to various injuries[1] - 9 missing, 12 house collapses, 4 trappings, 7 fires so far[1] - multiple highway road bridges snapped, roads damaged[2] - AEON brand shopping mall exploded following evacuation, cause unknown[3] - chimney collapsed at Nippon Seishi paper factory[4] - TSMC, Sony, Fujifilm chips, imagers, materials plants evacuated[4] - epicenter reported as 32.6N 130.7E[5], roughly 20km/12mi south of previous major earthquake[7], 320km/200mi SE from Busan, 650km/400mi from Seoul, 900km/550mi WSW from Tokyo, likewise 900km/550mi due east from Shanghai, 1200km/730mi due south to Vladivostok, etc - stone wall behind a moat damaged again at Kumamoto castle[8] 1: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188641000 2: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188611000 3: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188721000 4: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188691000 5: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOGM287FG0Y6A720C2000000/ 6: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eve... 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kumamoto_earthquakes?uses... 8: https://search.yahoo.co.jp/realtime/search/tweet/20820057608...

_joel

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/28/asia/japan-earthquake-int... for some Reuters reporting.

dncornholio

For anyone that had their heart skip a beat like me: "The Japanese Nuclear Energy Agency says no damage has been detected at three nearby nuclear power plants."

xiaodai

also earth quake in china.

nimishpatel19

ohh. what was the intensity?

clarle

It’s been officially revised down to 6.8, but that’s still a lot. Hope the residents of Kumamoto Prefecture stay safe and are able to evacuate.

inclinq

I'm in Fukuoka. We had shindo 3 here. My phone alarm went off just before the shaking, but the thing that really surprised me was how strong it felt. I instinctively ran outside. I hope everyone closer to the epicenter is safe.