Rescuers scramble to locate survivors as death toll climbs to 13 after powerful quake hits southwestern Japan

Rescuers in southwestern Japan are racing against the clock during the critical seventy-two hour window to find survivors after a powerful earthquake, Euronews reports. The death toll has climbed to thirteen, with dozens more still trapped under rubble. It's the strongest quake to hit the region in a decade, since a magnitude seven-point-zero tremor struck in twenty sixteen.

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