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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A resident walks by a collapsed house in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
Police officers search for people possibly trapped at damaged houses in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
Yuichiro Yoshikado, a Mashiki resident, helps to clean up his relative’s house in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
Police officers run in front of collapsed houses in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
A local resident cleans up her house in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
Police officers search for people possibly trapped at a damaged home in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
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. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
Police rescue team members search through damaged houses to check possibility of trapped people in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
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. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)