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Middle Kyushu Japan Earthquake

It was very shocking to hear about the Huge earthquake that hit the Middle Kyushu, Japan,  mainly Kumamoto area on April 14 and 16.  and small earthquakes have still been continuing. Huge one happened twice within a short time. and first one was magnitude 6.4 ,  earthquake, and the second one was magnitude 7.3, with an intensity on the Japanese scale of 7. According to the news, nearly 1,200 houses had been destroyed. and after 1 week past, 48 people died from it. and while people were taking refuge in shelters, there were 11 people who died from their injuries from the earthquake. Over 1,310 got serious injury. In the present, about 81,253 people are in shelter in all the areas that got damaged by the earthquake.  and many people who could not be in the shelter centers are staying outside. and also recently, almost same week as  Japan,  Ecuador was hit by 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week and 646 died and around 12,500 people were injured and ...