M 6.1 - 16 km NE of Satsumasendai, Japan

At least 22 people injured, many houses damaged and landslides occurred in Kagoshima Prefecture. Railway services interrupted in Kagoshima Prefecture and airports temporarily closed at Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Miyazaki. Felt (VI JMA) at Akune, Togomachi and Tsuruda; (V JMA) at Miyanojo and Sendai; (IV JMA) at Hitoyoshi, Miyakonojo, Okuchi and Yatsushiro; (III JMA) at Kurume, Makurazaki, Miyazaki, Oita and Saga. Felt (IV JMA) at Ushibuka, Amakusa-Shimo-jima. Also felt in much of Shikoku and parts of western Honshu.