UPDATED 9:10 p.m. PT with new count of dead and injured
Toppled buildings and destroyed roads could be seen throughout the Kyushu island of Japan on Saturday local time as people began to assess the damage of an overnight 7.3-magnitude earthquake.
And just hours after daylight broke, a 5.4-magnitude temblor rattled the southern island. It was the third quake since Thursday’s magnitude-6.5 earthquake in the area.
At least 19 people died after the earthquake overnight Saturday, adding to the 10 found dead after Thursday’s seismic event, according to the Associated Press. About 1,500 have been injured by the quakes, 80 of them seriously, Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told the wire service. Read more…
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