{"id":791516,"date":"2026-07-29T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791516\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:58:29","slug":"rescuers-race-to-find-survivors-following-massive-kumamoto-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791516\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers race to find survivors following massive Kumamoto quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers raced to find survivors on Wednesday, a day after a massive earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefecture and triggered a large explosion at a popular shopping mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least 13 people were killed and five more feared dead in the southwestern prefecture, the Japanese government said, with the toll expected to rise as police, firefighters and Self-Defense Forces personnel hunted for the missing following the magnitude 7.1 quake, which also registered up to a shindo 7, the highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale.<\/p>\n<p>At least three of the deaths came at a major shopping mall in the town of Kashima after an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/07\/28\/japan\/strong-earthquake-kyushu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> explosion ripped through the building<\/a>, causing a large portion of it to collapse, Aeon President Akio Yoshida told a news conference Wednesday afternoon. All of the casualties were employees, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers raced to find survivors on Wednesday, a day after a massive earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefecture and triggered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[336445,14890,192,267790,336444,79],"class_list":["post-791516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-2026-kumamoto-earthquake","tag-earthquakes","tag-environment","tag-kumamoto","tag-kyushu","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791516","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=791516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}