Japan earthquake death toll hits 30 as survivors struggle in the heat

Hundreds of elderly people slumbered on thin mats on the hard lobby floor at a community centre in Uki city as they sought relief from the punishing heat.

Japanese emergency workers were battling to rescue any remaining survivors from a devastated shopping centre, as the death toll from a major earthquake hit 28 and thousands sweltered in punishing heat.

Fears a gas leak may have caused mall explosion following quake

Thousands of people are staying in evacuation centres, struggling to keep cool as temperatures soar.

Soldiers and emergency workers are combing through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors The death toll from the major earthquake that hit Japan on Tuesday has risen to 17, as the search for trapped survivors inside a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses in the cou

Rescuers continue to search the wreckage of an Aeon Mall complex that collapsed during the earthquake.

YATSUSHIRO, Japan - Rescuers frantically searched for ‌survivors on Wednesday, a day after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturing roads across the region.

After a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan on July 28, the country's prime minister said 13 people had died so far and many were injured. The rescue work is ongoing to find those still missing. The earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, forcing over 260,000 people to evacuate. Roa

Authorities investigate possible explosion at Aeon shopping centre, power out for thousands of homes