{"id":715660,"date":"2026-07-28T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715660\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:09:11","slug":"people-trapped-in-japanese-mall-hit-by-earthquake-with-others-missing-after-factory-chimney-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715660\/","title":{"rendered":"People trapped in Japanese mall hit by earthquake, with others missing after factory chimney collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It feels like the building beneath you turns to liquid&#8217;published at 16:25 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:25 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A boy with a checkered red shirt and short brown hair\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aeb6762e-5eb1-4e15-8419-20a59ed43e43.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1090\" height=\"613\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Felix Umland<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Felix Umland, a German photography student in Japan was on the 13th floor of a hotel in Kagoshima, about 175km from the epicentre, when the Japan earthquake struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He tells BBC Newhour about the moment the earthquake started: &#8220;My phone started blaring an earthquake warning. I was just looking at my phone thinking I don&#8217;t know what to do now&#8230; Five seconds later everything started shaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just heard glasses flying in the kitchen and everything in the kitchen started breaking,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s not much you can do, it&#8217;s a pretty hopeless situation. You&#8217;re looking around waiting for it to stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Umland adds that although buildings are built to move with the Earth, &#8220;it feels like the building beneath you turns into liquid. It&#8217;s a very surreal feeling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The solid ground just suddenly turned into a mass that was moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;It feels like the building beneath you turns to liquid&#8217;published at 16:25 BST 16:25 BST Image source, Felix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-715660","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}