Tens of thousands of residents in Kumamoto were still evacuated or without power on Friday morning as the southern Japanese city awoke to the aftermath of a huge earthquake and more than 100 powerful aftershocks that left at least nine people dead.
The initial magnitude 6.5 quake, which struck at 9.26pm on Thursday, left more than 760 injured as dozens of homes collapsed and office and apartment buildings rocked violently.
Several fires broke out in the outskirts of the city of Kumamoto, one of the larger cities in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, a region renowned for its semiconductor plants.
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