Tokyo (CNN)[Breaking news update at 1:01 p.m. ET]
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck early Saturday morning in Japan’s Kyushu island, the same region a magnitude 6.2 quake struck late Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said that tsunami advisories have been issued for parts of the Asian island nation following the latest earthquake.
[Original story published at 9:58 a.m. ET]
The house had collapsed. Rescuers were told there was a baby inside, but aftershocks from the magnitude 6.2 earthquake on Japan’s Kyushu island prevented the use of heavy equipment at the site.
Yet, after six hours trapped under the ruins, an 8-month-old baby girl was pulled from the rubble early Friday, very much alive.
“It was miracle she was unharmed,” Hidenori Watanabe, a spokesman for the Kumamoto Higashi fire department, told CNN.
Fifty rescuers — wearing dark uniforms and white hard-hats with lights — scoured the large pile of rubble that just hours before had been a home. The infant’s mother and grandmother had managed to escape.
Read the rest here: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/asia/japan-earthquake/
Lets hope the fear mongerers are just fear mongering again and there isn’t another large eq in the weeks ahead.