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PHOTOS: Powerful earthquakes rattle Japan

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Friday, April 15, 2016
A resident walks by a collapsed house in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Police officers search for people possibly trapped at damaged houses in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Yuichiro Yoshikado, a Mashiki resident, helps to clean up his relative’s house in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Police officers run in front of collapsed houses in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
A local resident cleans up her house in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Police officers search for people possibly trapped at a damaged home in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Police officers walk through debris during their search for people possibly trapped in their home in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
Police rescue team members search through damaged houses to check possibility of trapped people in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
A resident cleans her mother’s Buddhist altar, which was collapsed during a magnitude-6.5 earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
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A resident walks by a collapsed house in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016.
AP Photo/Koji Ueda

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck southern Japan early Saturday, barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the same region and killed nine people.


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