{"id":832308,"date":"2026-07-30T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832308\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:08:14","slug":"three-mall-workers-dead-after-japanese-earthquake-with-at-least-13-killed-across-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832308\/","title":{"rendered":"Three mall workers dead after Japanese earthquake, with at least 13 killed across country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The strongest quake I&#8217;ve ever experienced&#8217;published at 07:28 BST 29 July<\/p>\n<p>07:28 BST 29 July<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Part of the Yatsushiro Shrine is seen damaged, after an earthquake struck the are\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/de1b6164-50cb-43a3-a64f-4c6f92763a47.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kanzo Matsumoto, who operates a hot spring inn in Yatsushiro, has called it &#8220;the strongest quake [he&#8217;s] ever experienced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure if [the region] will be able to recover from the damage,&#8221; the 73-year-old tells AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chiharu Hara, who was at work when the quake hit, recalls her office &#8220;swaying violently side to side&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was afraid it would collapse. Everyone panicked,&#8221; Hara, 35, tells AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The shaking reminded me of the Kumamoto quake [in 2016] and I was frightened,\u201d Hiroki Shimoda, a local official at the town of Mifune, told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In April 2016, two earthquakes &#8211; magnitudes 6.5 and 7.3 &#8211; struck Kumamoto two days apart, killing more than 270 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;The strongest quake I&#8217;ve ever experienced&#8217;published at 07:28 BST 29 July 07:28 BST 29 July Image source, Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-832308","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\/832308","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=832308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}