{"id":548317,"date":"2026-07-28T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:23:09","slug":"live-many-people-trapped-in-mall-collapse-after-7-1-earthquake-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548317\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: ‘Many people’ trapped in mall collapse after 7.1 earthquake in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow latest update with RNZ’s blog.<\/p>\n

Dozens of people are feared trapped in a shopping mall in Japan after a major earthquake<\/a> toppled buildings, sparked fires and reportedly killed one person and injured more than 100.<\/p>\n

Private broadcaster TBS reported that a “considerable number” of people were feared dead inside the mall in the town of Kashima after the fire brigade said that the second floor collapsed in the 7.1-magnitude tremor. Emergency services earlier said “many people” were trapped inside the building.<\/p>\n

Multiple people were also believed to be unaccounted for at a factory in Yatsushiro city where the tip of a chimney fell down, NHK reported, citing sources.<\/p>\n

One person was killed when a house collapsed during the quake, Kyodo reported.<\/p>\n

Follow the latest with RNZ’s live blog above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow latest update with RNZ’s blog. Dozens of people are feared trapped in a shopping mall in Japan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-548317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}