KUMAMOTO, Japan, April 18 (UPI) -- The death toll has risen to 42 people after three quakes rocked southern Japan late last week, on the southwestern island of Kyushu.
The tremors struck the Kumamoto prefecture within little more than 24 hours: a 6.5-magnitude late Thursday, a 5.3 early Saturday and a 7.4 later Saturday. The first quake left up to 10 people dead in what seismologists now believe was a foreshock leading up to Saturday's temblors.