Search parties continue in Japan after a 7.0- magnitude earthquake hit late Thursday afternoon.
The earthquake hit Kumamoto for about 20 seconds and devastated many buildings, 19 homes, two railways, and one hospital. It is said that not the magnitude of the earthquake caused so much disaster but it was the 6.2 miles of depth the earthquake reached that caused so much damage.
With Japan sitting right on the "ring of fire" no one in Japan is surprised a earthquake hits again in Japan, but with over 9 people killed from the disaster everyone is helping with the search and rescue.
The Japan Meteorological Agency was worried of a tsunami hitting, but soon lifted that danger after it died down miles off of the shores.
'Many after shocks followed the 7.0 earthquake, but none that damaged anything more than it already was" a Japanese police officer said.
Lucky no power plants were disturbed, which could have killed all the power in Japan making the rescuing and saving of lives nearly impossible.
The last earthquake that hit Japan was not even a year ago and much larger than the one that hit at 9:26 p.m. last night.
Search and rescue continues into many more hours and will hopefully not turn up anymore bodies that are deceased keeping the death count at only nine, but the searches will continue for many more days along with the rebuilding of the destruction that occurred as a result.
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