Powerful earthquake hits southern Japan, tsunami advisory
This aerial view shows damaged houses in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, a day after a magnitude-6.5 earthquake. More than 100 aftershocks from Thursday night’s magnitude-6.5 earthquake continued to rattle the region as businesses and residents got a fuller look at the widespread damage from the unusually strong quake, which also injured about 800 people. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 has struck southern Japan, barely 24 hours after a deadly quake hit the same region.
The quake shook the Kumamoto region at 1:25 a.m. today (Saturday). On Thursday night the area was hit by a magnitude 6.5 quake that left nine dead and more than 800 injured.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued an advisory for a tsunami up to 1 meter along the coast east of the epicenter in Kumamoto.
AP
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We are bombarded with Headline News into these recent and continues Earthquakes and after shocks in Japan and elsewhere.
But, I don’t see or hear anyone offering any assistance or support, whether, its Financial, Collection Boxes, Medical or Search Dogs, or Contacts where people wants to give.
In recent times when an Earthquake did occurred in our region we both the (SARS) had to dig-in deep into our reserves and provide generously or our Mother Land wouldn’t be too happy with us. In the tunes of Millions if not more.
Surely, we can do something here to render our support to human mankind.
We never moved an eyebrow.
How disgusting.