“Quite a few” people are believed to have been killed after an explosion at a mall in the south of the country, according to local media citing police.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and injuring at least 50 people, including some trapped inside...

The Japanese government ​issued emergency earthquake warnings for Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Saga, Oita, ​and Miyazaki prefectures, all on Japan's southern Kyushu island.