{"id":789015,"date":"2026-07-28T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789015\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:19:15","slug":"m7-1-quake-rocks-southwestern-japan-tsunami-advisory-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789015\/","title":{"rendered":"M7.1 quake rocks southwestern Japan, tsunami advisory issued"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook southwestern Japan on Tuesday, with tsunami advisories issued for the Ariake and Yatsushiro seas, the weather agency said, with several people likely injured.<\/p>\n

The focus of the 4:27 p.m. quake was in Kumamoto Prefecture at a depth of about 10 kilometers, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.<\/p>\n

The quake in the prefecture in the center of the island of Kyushu registered the maximum 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in Uki and Hikawa and upper 6 in surrounding areas.<\/p>\n

Several people were believed to have been injured in the quake, while a power outage affected about 48,000 households in the prefecture, according to the local fire department and power company.<\/p>\n

It also registered upper 5 in neighboring Kagoshima Prefecture and lower 5 in Fukuoka and Saga prefectures.<\/p>\n

No abnormalities were reported at the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture or at the Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture, according to Kyushu Electric Power.<\/p>\n

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\nScreenshot shows seismic intensity levels in affected areas on July 28, 2026. (Source: Japan Meteorological Agency<\/a>) <\/p>\n

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\nScreenshot shows areas covered by tsunami advisory and forecast on July 28, 2026. (Source: Japan Meteorological Agency<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook southwestern Japan on Tuesday, with tsunami advisories…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-789015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}