{"id":179143,"date":"2026-08-13T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=179143&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:15:53","slug":"kumamoto-earthquake-damages-more-than-22000-homes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kumamoto-earthquake-damages-more-than-22000-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumamoto earthquake damages more than 22,000 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after the magnitude-seven-level shaking in Kumamoto, 22,697 homes had been damaged across the prefecture. The reported death toll was 39, including people suspected of having died from disaster-related causes, while 3,810 people remained in evacuation shelters. In Uki City, 677 residents were still displaced, including 117 at the Matsubase-area shelter featured in the report. Power had been fully restored, but 34,040 households remained without water and municipalities were struggling to identify all residents sheltering at home. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ntv.co.jp\/category\/society\/45f0e79223034a0d9a97b43fb5b07cd9\" target=\"_blank\">NTV News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kab.co.jp\/news\/article\/16801545\/31197948\" target=\"_blank\">KAB News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_kumamoto-earthquake-damages-more-than-22000-homes_2026_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C778&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"778\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-179144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_kumamoto-earthquake-damages-more-than-22000-homes_2026_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_kumamoto-earthquake-damages-more-than-22000-homes_2026_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_kumamoto-earthquake-damages-more-than-22000-homes_2026_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C569&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fnn_kumamoto-earthquake-damages-more-than-22000-homes_2026_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: NTV News<\/p>\n<p>Get Fukuoka and Kyushu\u2019s top stories delivered to your inbox. The Now is Fukuoka Now\u2019s free biweekly newsletter featuring local news, events, culture, business, and community updates in English. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\">Subscribe to The Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\">this <strong>form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after the magnitude-seven-level shaking in Kumamoto, 22,697 homes had been damaged across the prefecture. The reported death toll was 39, including people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30292,"featured_media":179144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-179143","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kumamoto-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/179143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}