The July 28 Kyushu earthquake

מה השתנה

• A magnitude 7.1 quake hit Kumamoto on July 28, 2026, registering shindo 7.
• As of July 31, about 4,500 households lacked electricity and 79,000 lacked water; 11 were pulled from mall rubble, seven dead.
• By Aug. 1 the toll was 36, including an apparent heat-stroke death in a car.

מה שנותר פתוח אז

• No source confirms 30 dead on July 31, 120 houses destroyed, 800+ buildings damaged, a trapped survivor in Yatsushiro, or a verbatim week-long JMA aftershock warning.

מה שאמרנו שנעקוב אחריו

• Whether power, water and fuel return before heat and displacement add disaster-related deaths.
• How authorities classify and prevent the next car-shelter and shelter-health casualties.

מה ידענו בהתחלה

• The Aeon Mall in Kashima had its second floor collapse after an explosion following the quake.
• Kumamoto officials put the death toll at 34 by July 31, with survivors sheltering in cars in heat.
• Hundreds of thousands evacuated and rail and some air operations were suspended.

מה שנותר פתוח אז

• No confirmed cause of the mall explosion, exact quake time, or reconciled magnitude has been established.
• No full breakdown of dead by location or final missing count is established in these sources.

מה שאמרנו שנעקוב אחריו

• Whether aftershocks cause further collapses and how displaced families move from cars to shelter.
• Whether investigators determine why the mall structure failed after the blast.