mashiki town. made of stone, completely collapsed. the stone fence, run ago long side the road, has fallen over. injuring the passage of pedestrians. as the day begins, more vehicles can be seen on the roads. but the signal lights at the intersection are without power. so police officers are directing traffic. the roadway has visible cracks. and water is leaking on to the surface. firefighters are patrolling the area, visiting houses one by one to check if the residents are safe. some evacuees who took shelter last night can be seen walking back to their homes to check on the condition. >> here is a look at how it all unfolded. nhk camera captured the moment the quake struck kumamoto at around 9:30 p.m. thursday. the tremor caused half of the wall of kumamoto castle to collapse. here is what it was like inside nh k's newsroom near the castle. hundreds were admitted to hospitals or have received treatment. >> i was watching tv in my apartment on the eighth floor. the building shook a lot. then the lights went out and my wardrobe fell o

in the town of mashiki a man and his family were trapped. they waited for two hours before being rescued. >> translator: i was lucky i could get to an opening free of debris when the house collapsed. i'm glad all my family members got out safely. >> for many foreign residents living in japan earthquakes are not necessarily something they have experienced before. nhk world spoke by phone with marlow who is the leader of a muslim community. >> i was traveling in a car on my way back home. i thought something was wrong. after i stopped my car i feel like my car is bumping. so this is an experience for me because i had no experience like this for me in my life. just a few minutes ago we had after shocks. not big but a little bit bigger. some of my friends told me they can't sleep until now because they are worried the. >>> the city of kumamoto has a sizable muslim population. many of them first came to study at kumamoto university three years ago. marlow and his friends established a mosque. they also organized cultural exchange programs with ja

. >> goto is from the hardest hit town of mashiki. he and relatives crawled out of their collapsed house after a strong quake hit the town. evacuees are afraid of earthquakes as hundreds of jolts have shaken the region over the past week. >>> a disaster prevention expert has been trying to determine why a landslide triggered by the quake had so much force. kamai studied the ground in kumamoto and said a saturated layer of volcanic ash was to blame. he says the hillside slid more than half a kilometer even though the slope was gentle, because there was a ten meter thick layer of ash above a layer of clay. he thinks rain made the ash wet and then the earthquake caused it to collapse. he believes the speed of the collapse gave the ash the momentum to travel so far and do so much damage. and he warned it's something that could happen again. >> translator: japan is a country with many volcanos, so a disaster like this could happen anywhere where ash is mixed with pumice. >> huge cracks have formed in roads in kumamoto and hillsides have col

the chain's distribution center is in the town of mashiki, one of the areas hardest hit by the quake. trucks can now only make one delivery a day, down from the usual three. many drivers are now in shelters and their vehicles have been damaged. traffic jams are also slowing distribution and night delivery is suspended due to frequent tremors. >> translator: we're getting substitute drivers and trying our best to deliver goods quickly. >> managers are making changes to orders to speed up delivery. they decide to unify the variety and volume across all stores to decrease sorting times. >> translator: we are doing our best to remove obstacles and get the flow of goods back to normal as soon as possible. >> police are calling on people to avoid driving during rush hour and to take alternate routes to prevent traffic jams. >>> some nursing homes in kumamoto city are facing difficulty coping with the large number of elderly evacuees. this facility was already full before the quake, but is now overflowing. the staff are looking after 40 more after the -- on top of the first 100. >> translato

in the hardest hit town of mashiki, authorities had to stop accepting debris after temporary storage site filled up. the waste facilities was compromised in the tremors, and there's nowhere for people to dispose of household trash. >> translator: the garbage has piled up since the disposal facility closed. as you'd expect, it stinks. >> neighboring municipalities have started accepting some of the trash. >> translator: we heard the garbage is becoming a problem in kumamoto, we'll try to help out as much as we can. >> even with outside help, kumamoto officials are worried things could get worse once wrecking crews move in to demolish toppled buildings. >>> a japanese health institute has warned people staying in evacuation shelters in kumamoto should be on the alert for possible outbreaks of flu and other infectious diseases. the national institute of infectious diseases has published information about the risk of contracting various illnesses. it's rated them as level 3, saying people would exercise cautious. nearly two dozen evacuees at a shelter in minamiaso recently suffered from

most of the dead in the town of mashiki. at this one on friday, rescuers gently delivered this 9-month-old baby girl from death's grip. that rescue, the one bright spot amid the grim task of recovery. in that same neighborhood, we found these rescuers. this crew is checking out the hardest-hit homes, and one they want to hit, the house that the 9-month-old girl was rescued from. minutes later, they found it. they found the house, and it's incredible that anyone could have survived. then, a man approached. he said he was the baby's rescued. thank god, right? wow. he then tells us we can meet her, hopping in the only possession he has left. and she was right there when we all cheeks and completely unscathed. her family told me they lost everything in the quake, but also they found their most important thing, their family. hampered by hundreds of aftershocks, and the fear that another massive one could come at any time. tom? >> matt, thank you. >>> back here at home, flood alerts in the south. hail and heavy rain pummeling part

there and people killed were in the town of mashiki (this was 6.2 and 11 after shocks since then. they have collapsed and people trapped under debris. >> there is no threat of a tsunami. >> now we are learning about a raid at the law firm accused of money laundering for high profile international clients. so far no arrests came from the raid. this is earlier in the month when they released 11 million documents that embarrassed clients and president of argentina and father of david cameron. government of panama is longing forward evidence of wrongdoing. >> the most important thing is that the public ministry of panama is carrying out investigations. it is important for us to verify whether or not there is is a crime and in that sense, the investigation will continue. >>> people who have been accused say they have done nothing wrong. they rule lied out the law firm's offices and said it makes all of man ma look bad. >>> there is definitive evidence to determine that the zika virus can have babies born with small heads. >> what does this mean forpregnant women and what does it mean t

the town of mashiki the hardest hit. house after house crumpled. it was here that this scene unfolded two days ago. a 9-month-old baby girl trapped for hours. plucked out of the wreckage and darkness and gingerly cradled from rescuer to rescuer. rescuers are back at this house where they plucked the 9-month-old baby from the rubble. now, they found that there's some smoke coming out from inside. they're trying to make sure that nobody is left under this rubble. it was then that a man came up to us. he was the baby's grandfather. her name, baby miku. you knew she was alive because you were able to touch her and she grabbed your hand? he said they brought her out and he told me, he then wept. he told us, we could see her. we hopped in his tiny pickup. he drove us through cracked streets. as we walked up to the shelter -- are you the father? >> yes. >> reporter: hi. hello, baby. she's the miracle baby. all chubby cheeks, full of energy, completely unscathed. baby miku's family told me they lost everything in the earthquake. then they said they have ev

most of the dead in the town of mashiki. at this one on friday, rescuers gently delivered this 9-month-old baby girl from death's grip. that rescue, the one bright spot amid the grim task of recovery. in that same neighborhood, we found these rescuers. this crew is checking out the hardest-hit homes, and one house in particular they want to hit, is the one where that 9-month-old baby girl was rescued from. they want to make sure that nobody's still in there. minutes later, they found it. so this rescue crew finally found the house where they rescued that girl just a couple days ago. when you look at this house, it's incredible that anyone was able to survive. then, a man approached us. he said he was the baby's grandfather. her name, baby miku. rescued. >> rescued, exactly. >> rescued. >> thank god, right? wow. he then tells us we can meet her, hopping in the only possession he has left. hi, sweet girl. and she was right there when we walked up to the shelter. all cheeks and completely unscathed. >> miku's family told me tha