{"id":967024,"date":"2026-07-29T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/967024\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:07:15","slug":"rescuers-race-to-find-survivors-following-massive-kumamoto-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/967024\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers race to find survivors following massive Kumamoto quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers raced to find survivors on Wednesday, a day after a massive earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefecture and triggered a large explosion at a popular shopping mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least 13 people were killed and five more feared dead in the southwestern prefecture, the Japanese government said, with the toll expected to rise as police, firefighters and Self-Defense Forces personnel hunted for the missing following the magnitude 7.1 quake, which also registered up to a shindo 7, the highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale.<\/p>\n<p>At least three of the deaths came at a major shopping mall in the town of Kashima after an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/07\/28\/japan\/strong-earthquake-kyushu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> explosion ripped through the building<\/a>, causing a large portion of it to collapse, Aeon President Akio Yoshida told a news conference Wednesday afternoon. All of the casualties were employees, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers raced to find survivors on Wednesday, a day after a massive earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefecture and triggered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":967025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[388454,12635,746,68239,388453,159,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-967024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-2026-kumamoto-earthquake","tag-earthquakes","tag-environment","tag-kumamoto","tag-kyushu","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117003894471777555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}