[numpad0]

  - at least 50 hospitalized due to various injuries[1]
  - 9 missing, 12 house collapses, 4 trappings, 7 fires so far[1]
  - multiple highway road bridges snapped, roads damaged[2]
  - AEON brand shopping mall exploded following evacuation, cause unknown[3]
  - chimney collapsed at Nippon Seishi paper factory[4]
  - TSMC, Sony, Fujifilm chips, imagers, materials plants evacuated[4]
  - epicenter reported as 32.6N 130.7E[5], roughly 20km/12mi south of previous major earthquake[7], 
    320km/200mi SE from Busan, 650km/400mi from Seoul, 900km/550mi WSW from Tokyo, likewise 900km/550mi
    due east from Shanghai, 1200km/730mi due south to Vladivostok, etc
  - stone wall behind a moat damaged again at Kumamoto castle[8]

1: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188641000 2: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188611000 3: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188721000 4: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015188691000 5: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOGM287FG0Y6A720C2000000/ 6: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eve... 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kumamoto_earthquakes?uses... 8: https://search.yahoo.co.jp/realtime/search/tweet/20820057608...

[makeitdouble]

On top of that, one of the toughest part could be the extent of the power outage.

It's reported at around 46000 homes, the region has many elders and the outage will impact air conditionners, but also medical equipment they keep at home and supporting appliances.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/55a0a3ebb9d0087ae8492ce85c...

[latentsea]

Call me crazy, but that just doesn't sound all that bad?

[zuzululu]

> TSMC, Sony, Fujifilm chips, imagers, materials plants evacuated

This makes me think, is it wise to build these places in regions with known earthquake trends.

Almost no earthquakes in Korea and Samsung fabs are also located in the most safe area within Korea.

[bobthepanda]

Japan itself is involved with a lot of the R&D, the factories are there because of that and because of major buyers also being there. It’s not like we’re going to evacuate the hundred million plus of Japan.

[ulfw]

And then one would argue is it wise to build these places in regions with an ongoing neighbour dispute and a never officially ended war.

There's no perfect optimisation for everything

[parineum]

It's a major reason why Arizona was selected for a US site.