A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Japan's southern Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday, triggering widespread destruction, knocking out electricity to tens of thousands of homes, damaging critical infrastructure, and leaving dozens of people feared trapped beneath the rubble of a partially collapsed shopping mall.

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Japan's southern Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday, triggering widespread destruction, knocking out electricity to tens of thousands of…

A tsunami advisory for the western coast has been lifted.