Kumamoto
Americannoun
noun
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The two were among 38 people who died in the magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture on 28 July.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Hundreds of rescue workers were meanwhile battling for another day to reach possible survivors in the remains of the Aeon shopping mall in Kashima in the Kumamoto region of southwestern Japan.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
In April 2016, a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto two days after a magnitude 6.5 tremor.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Defence Minister Shinjirō Koizumi said in a post on X that about 300 air conditioning units would be flown to Kumamoto and distributed in the worst-hit areas.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
For the Mino-Owari earthquake, this proves to be about forty years, for the Kumamoto earthquake about seven or eight years, and for the Kagoshima earthquake about three or four years.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
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