A man looks at a Torii gate that collapsed after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture, in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, July 29, 2026. (Reuters)KUMAMOTO, Japan: Rescuers were frantically searching on Wednesday for survivors of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturing roads across the region. The damaged Aeon Mall shopping centre, where an explosion occurred after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture, in Kashima Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, July 29, 2026. The quake’s epicentre was about 20 kilometres (12 ‌miles) south of Kumamoto City, central Kyushu's largest city with a population of around 700,000. Buildings that collapsed after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture, in Yatsushiro City, Japan, July 29, 2026.