A powerful earthquake struck Japan's Kyushu island on 28 July, forcing more than 150,000 people to evacuate. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.
The quake caused power outages, damaged roads, brought down part of a castle wall, and destroyed a footbridge. More than 40,000 households are without power. Several people are missing after a chimney collapsed at a paper factory in the Kumamoto prefecture, according to police cited by Japan's public broadcaster NHK.