A powerful earthquake on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido has killed nine people and injured hundreds more after dozens of landslides crushed houses. Nearly three million households were left without power by the quake — the latest in an exhausting run of natural disasters for Japan. Cars are parked along a road damaged by an earthquake in Sapporo, Hokkaido prefecture. Photograph: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty ImagesUnaccountedTwenty-eight people remained unaccounted for in the town, Atsuma mayor Shoichiro Miyasaka told public broadcaster NHK. Houses damaged by a landslide caused by an earthquake, are seen in Atsuma town in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.

Source: The Irish Times September 06, 2018 06:00 UTC