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Japan earthquake: What we know so far
Japan is reeling from the latest major earthquake to hit the country.
Many people are trapped inside an Aeon Mall shopping centre after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Kyushu island, the fire service says.
The quake has also caused power cuts, damaged roads, collapsed a castle wall and destroyed a footbridge.
Information is still coming out of Japan but here is what we know so far.
The quake hit the Kumamoto prefecture on Kyushu island at 16:27 local time (07:27 GMT) on Tuesday, with about 300,000 people being told to move to evacuation shelters.
Kumamoto - where the collapsed Aeon Mall is located - is a city on the Kyushu island of Japan.
The southern island of Kyushu is the third-largest of the four main islands in Japan, and the second most populous.
The Kumamoto prefecture is no stranger to earthquakes.
A total of 278 people were killed in 2016 by powerful quakes in Kumamoto and neighbouring Oita prefectures, according to Japan's public broadcaster NHK.
A map of the epicentre of the earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture on Kyushu island