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  tkgally
  In parts of Kumamoto Prefecture, it registered 7 on the Japanese shindo (seismic intensity) scale, which reflects the amount of ground shaking at a particular location. The shindo is a better indicator of the likely amount of damage than the magnitude is. A shindo of 7 is extremely strong [1].Ten minutes ago (at around 17:15 p.m. Japan time), NHK was reporting that there were many emergency calls coming in from Uki City, where shindo 7 was recorded, but that the extent of the damage or injuries was not yet known.There have also been many aftershocks, including some strong ones, and tsunami warnings.[1] https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/jishintsunami/jishin...
• DiscourseFan
  Kumamoto is barely finished rebuilding from the last quake, you can still see cracks in structures as you drive down the road. This is really horrible; not to mention the city is already beginning to depopulate as the youth move north to Fukuoka.
• 41d
  I hope everyone is safe in Kumamoto. In my area, we have been repeatedly warned that a major earthquake called the Nankai Trough is likely to occur in the last few years or decades, so I am very scared of big earthquakes happening in other areas as well.
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  kuczmama
  I'm living in the South of Japan, it was a 4 intensity where I am (about 90km) from the epicenter. Luckily there was only some light shaking and nothing fell over here.
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  canpan
  Similar strength and location as the 2016 one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kumamoto_earthquakes
• shoobiedoo
  Fukuoka here (about 100km from Kumamoto) and definitely felt it, so it must have been a real big one in Kumamoto itself.My friend was driving home from work closer to Miyazaki and didn't feel the quake, but had huge hailstones hitting his car. There's a rapture going on or something
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  mrwaffle
  Was looking at webcams here (https://tokyo.fyi) but realized this is further south.
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  vaylian
  Does anyone know if this also affects South Korea?
• asdaqopqkq
  arent they trying to make silicon fabs there?
• ButlerianJihad
  United States Geological Survey https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=21.04224...Live NHK-WORLD-NEWS feed (English-language commentator) https://www.youtube.com/live/f0lYkdA-Gtw?si=Sc8ZbldZUQESiJQZ
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  TZubiri
  7.1 seems to mean non resistant buildings may collapse.
• anon
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• what_hn
  Shit hope everyone is ok.
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  minraws
  Tldr; Seems like major cities didn't get hit by the earthquake at 7 scale.Hoping for zero casualities.
• aaron695
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  1317
  don't know what this is doing at the top of HN, if you're there then you know about it already, if you're not then it doesn't affect you in the slightest