Watch: The moment quake hit Japan

What the report says

BBC World News published video showing the moment a major earthquake shook Japan’s Kyushu island on 28 July, with footage from several locations across the affected region. The report said the quake prompted evacuation orders or instructions for more than 150,000 people, underscoring the scale of the emergency response on one of Japan’s main islands.

According to the BBC, the earthquake disrupted electricity supplies, damaged roads, knocked down part of a castle wall and destroyed a footbridge. The report also said more than 40,000 households remained without power. Police, cited by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, said several people were missing after a chimney collapsed at a paper factory in Kumamoto prefecture.

The BBC item was published as a video report in its Asia section and did not provide a full casualty assessment or detailed magnitude information in the supplied text. The key confirmed developments are the widespread evacuations, infrastructure damage, power outages and the search for missing people linked to the factory collapse.

Japan is among the world’s most earthquake-prone countries because it sits near the boundaries of several tectonic plates. Kyushu, in southwestern Japan, has experienced damaging earthquakes before, including in Kumamoto prefecture, making rapid evacuation, power restoration and structural safety checks central concerns after a significant tremor.