{"id":830349,"date":"2026-07-29T02:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:43:14","slug":"at-least-50-injured-multiple-people-trapped-in-mall-after-massive-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830349\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 50 injured, multiple people trapped in mall after massive quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/260728-japan-earthquake-vl-1102a-8dbe1c.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"An aerial view of a damaged house with smoke rising out of the exposed roof\" class=\"block\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">A residential building on fire after an earthquake struck Japan&#8217;s southern Kumamoto prefecture, in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, today.\u00a0  Kyodo News via Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"p\">About 80 people hurt during the earthquake were being treated at the Yatsushiro Northern Regional Medical Center in Hikawa, a town in the Kumamoto prefecture, as of Tuesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.web.nhk\/newsweb\/na\/na-k10015188641000?_reload=2026-07-28T14%253A05%253A12.060Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to NHK<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"s\">The outlet also reported that around 10 people were also hurt at a nursing home in the same town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"v\">A staff member at Hayao-en Special Nursing Home for the Elderly told NHK that she was at her desk when the building began to shake violently. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"y\">\u201cI clung to my desk, but the shaking was so strong I couldn\u2019t keep my balance,\u201d the person, who was not identified, said, according to NHK. \u201cResidents in wheelchairs fell over and a staff member fell on me, cutting my arm and causing bleeding. About 10 people were injured, but there are no serious injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A residential building on fire after an earthquake struck Japan&#8217;s southern Kumamoto prefecture, in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-830349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}