{"id":715882,"date":"2026-07-28T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715882\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:50:10","slug":"japan-earthquake-live-updates-at-least-50-injured-multiple-people-trapped-in-mall-after-massive-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715882\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan earthquake live updates: At least 50 injured, multiple people trapped in mall after massive quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"6r\">Japan experiences tremors \u2014 both minor and major \u2014 almost every day, making it one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. The East Asian country sits on the \u201cRing of Fire,\u201d where several tectonic plates converge, triggering many of the world\u2019s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/260728-japan-rs-ce6d79.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"521\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"\" class=\"block\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Firefighters at the scene of a burning house, in a still taken from a video of Uki, Kumamoto prefecture, following an earthquake today.\u00a0  via Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"6z\">Nearly 20% of global earthquakes measuring 6.0 or higher occur in Japan. Since 2011, when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns at three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan has significantly strengthened its earthquake warning systems and evacuation protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan experiences tremors \u2014 both minor and major \u2014 almost every day, making it one of the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715882","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=715882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}