JAPAN: Yesterday earthquake of 6.8 shaken the land of Japan, and today again second powerful earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale hit southern Japan, which killed at least seven people.

The quake on the southwestern island of Kyushu flared a fresh wave of abolition and was followed by a wave of aftershocks in the region where nerves are before frayed following Thursday's deadly earthquake.

The strong shaking set off a big landslide that cleaned away homes and cut off a highway in one area, and unlike the earlier quake which mostly affected old houses, larger buildings were damaged and some toppled across Kumamoto prefecture, the epicentre of the quakes.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, said, “ more than 300 calls came in to the Kumamoto police and another 100 to police in nearby Oita, seeking help and reporting people trapped or buried underneath debris. He said 1,600 soldiers joined rescue efforts. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said damage from the magnitude-7.3 quake could be extensive”
Yuichiro Yoshikado said, “Thursday's quake stuck as he was taking a bath in his apartment in Mashiki”
He said, "I grabbed onto the sides of the bathtub, but the water in the tub, it was about 70 percent filled with water, was going like this," he said, waving his arms, "and all the water splashed out."
"It's as if all control was lost. I thought I was going to die and I couldn't bear it any longer."
Yoshikado, added, “whose building was undamaged despite the intense shaking, checked the damage at his aunt and uncle's home nearby. Kitchenware was scattered on the floor, and a clock had stopped around 9:26 pm, the time of Thursday's quake”
Fire and Disaster Management Agency said, “The latest victim of Thursday's quake was killed in a fire in the city of Yatsushiro, the Kumamoto prefecture said, adding that two other people were in a state of heart and lung failure. The nine other dead included five women and four men”.