更新于：2026年7月30日 / 美国东部时间上午9:37 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
据地震发生地日本南部主岛九州的熊本县政府消息，周二发生强烈地震后，日本西南部的死亡人数已升至至少34人。
这场灾害摧毁了房屋，引发一处商场爆炸，并导致一座工厂烟囱倒塌。两天后，再有人员获救的希望愈发渺茫。
尽管救援人员周四继续搜寻更多幸存者，但时间已所剩无几，而死亡人数较周三的数字几乎翻倍，人们担忧死亡人数还会进一步上升。熊本县政府表示，美国地质调查局测得此次地震震级为6.8级，地震还造成86人受伤，其中5人伤势严重。目前仍有多少人失踪尚不明确。
幸存者讲述了回家后拼命将家人从废墟中救出的经历。一些人受伤后被紧急送往医院。
数千人再次在该地区各地设立的疏散中心过夜，这些疏散中心设在体育馆和其他大型场地。部分房屋仍断水断电，还有些人不敢回家。
近1.9万座房屋仍处于停电状态，超过9000人滞留在约400个避难所中，相关部门正在为避难所增设电源以提供空调。
人们对中暑等疾病的担忧与日俱增。日本环境省向熊本县发布了中暑警报，预计周四当地气温将高达91华氏度。
（注：原文此处为配图说明：2026年7月29日周三，日本南部熊本县鹿岛市，一家因地震引发爆炸受损的永旺商场。美联社记者 广部惠 摄）
在受灾最严重的地区之一冰川町，许多居民断水断电或二者皆无，一些人在公园或市政厅停车场的车内过夜。
在市政厅正门，工作人员分发瓶装水和包装好的即食米饭，陆上自卫队队员则推着小车运送淡水。
66岁的居民中岛佳明带着两个瓶子和心爱的宠物狗前来取水，他表示自己不愿住在当地三个疏散中心中的任何一个，因此待在车里。他还说，因为余震让他感到不安，所以也不想睡在家里。
“在车里睡觉翻身都困难，”他说，但待在避难所里更难熬。
另一位30多岁的居民稻崎明子住在自家院子里搭建的帐篷里，地震后她家一直断水断电。前来取水的稻崎明子表示，她会一点点省着用这些水。
“淡水太珍贵了，”她说。稻崎明子说自己喝水太少，差点中暑。
中暑风险是官员们面临的一大担忧。
（注：原文此处为配图说明：2026年7月29日周三，地震发生次日，日本西南部八代市倒塌建筑下被压毁的车辆。美联社记者 广部惠 摄）
从日本中部爱知县派遣而来的医生丰冈小林周四正在巡视疏散中心，评估疏散人员的健康状况，尤其是老年人和伤者在恶劣环境下的身体情况。
“我们必须确保老年人不会中暑或脱水，”他在冰川町说道。
冰川町官员表示，首晚市政厅停车场几乎爆满，但一些居民已搬到配备空调的三所公立学校。
町村官员田村让表示，他们的应急食品储备，如罐装面包和即食米饭，已开始告罄。
受灾最严重的是鹿岛町的永旺购物中心，地震于当日下午晚些时候发生时，商场内挤满了数千人。
商场方面表示，约3000名顾客在爆炸发生前被疏散至停车场，爆炸发生在商场另一区域，当时仍有部分工作人员在那里。商场二楼坍塌，将人员困在下方。
（注：原文此处为配图说明：2026年7月30日周四，日本南部熊本县鹿岛市，一名消防员在发生强烈地震后爆炸的永旺购物中心搬运担架。内藤海/共同社 美联社供图）
据熊本县当局消息，截至周四早些时候，从商场废墟中救出的11人中，已有6人确认死亡。
在八代地区，日本制纸集团的一座工厂烟囱倒塌，熊本县灾害对策总部表示，该地区已救出10人，但另有8人死亡，1人仍失踪。
日本政府和军方提供的画面显示，救援人员正在钻开建筑坍塌区域，试图营救仍可能被困在里面的人。
首相高市早苗对记者表示，中央政府将牵头协调各项救援工作。她说，恢复受灾地区的电力、燃气和供水，并供应淡水，是当前的关键任务。
“现场的需求一直在变化。为了平息民众的不安情绪，我们将竭尽所能，”她说道。
Japan earthquake death toll climbs to 34 as hopes wane for more rescues
Updated on: July 30, 2026 / 9:37 AM EDT / CBS/AP
The death toll has grown to at least 34 people in southwestern Japan after a powerful earthquake on Tuesday, according to the prefectural government of Kumamoto, on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, where the quake struck.
The disaster destroyed homes, triggered an explosion at a mall and caused a factory chimney to collapse. Two days later, hopes waned that anyone else would be rescued.
Although rescuers continued their search on Thursday to find additional survivors, time was running out, and fears remained the death toll would rise higher after nearly doubling from Wednesday’s figure. Measured as a magnitude 6.8 by the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake also left 86 people injured, five of them seriously, the Kumamoto government said. How many people were still missing was unclear.
Survivors spoke about coming home and desperately pulling family members out of the wreckage. Some had suffered injuries and were rushed to the hospital.
Thousands of people spent another night at evacuation centers set up throughout the area in gymnasiums and other big spaces. Some homes were still without water or electricity, while others were afraid to go back.
Nearly 19,000 homes were still without electricity and more than 9,000 people were staying in the roughly 400 shelters, where power sources were being added to provide air conditioning.
Concerns were growing about illness, including from the sweltering heat. The Ministry of Environment sent out a heatstroke alert for the Kumamoto area, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 91 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday.
AEON Mall, which was damaged by an explosion following an earthquake, is seen in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture, southern Japan, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. AP Photo/Hiro Komae
In the town of Hikawa, one of the hardest-hit areas in Kumamoto, many residents are without water or electricity, or both, and some are staying inside their vehicles in parks or at the town hall parking lot.
At the front entrance of the town hall, officials delivered bottled water and packaged instant rice, while the Ground Self-Defense Force service members came with a trolley to provide fresh water.
Yoshiaki Nakashima, a 66-year-old resident who came with two bottles and his beloved pet dog to get water, said he is staying in a car because of his reluctance to stay at one of the three evacuation centers in the area. He also said he doesn’t want to sleep at home because aftershocks made him feel uneasy.
“It’s difficult to turn over while sleeping in a car,” he said, but that living at a shelter is even more difficult.
Akiko Inazaki, another resident in her 30s, is living in a tent set up in the yard of her home, which has been without water and electricity since the quake. Inazaki, who also came to get water, said she will use it little by little.
“Fresh water is so valuable,” she said. Inazaki said she drank so little that she almost had heatstroke.
Risks of heatstroke are a major concern among officials.
Vehicles are crushed under collapsed buildings in Yatsushiro, southwestern Japan, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, the day after an earthquake hit the area. AP Photo/Hiro Komae
Yutaka Kobayashi, a doctor dispatched from central Japan’s Aichi prefecture, said he was touring evacuation centers Thursday to assess the condition of evacuees, especially elderly people and those with injuries as they cope with a harsh environment.
“We have to make sure elderly people are not developing heatstrokes or dehydration,” he said in Hikawa.
While the town parking lot was nearly packed the first night, some residents have moved to three public schools where air conditioning is running, Hikawa officials said.
A town official, Yuzuru Tamura, said they are starting to run out of emergency food supplies, such as canned bread and instant rice.
The most serious damage was at the Aeon Mall shopping center in the town of Kashima, which was bustling with thousands of people when the quake struck in the late afternoon.
The company said some 3,000 customers were evacuated to a parking lot before the explosion happened in another part of the mall, where some people were still working. The mall’s second floor collapsed, trapping people.
A firefighter carries a stretcher at AEON Mall shopping center, where an explosion occurred following a powerful earthquake, in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture, southern Japan, Thursday, July 30, 2026. Kai Naito/Kyodo News via AP
As of early Thursday, six people were confirmed to have died at the mall site among the 11 people pulled out of the wreckage, according to Kumamoto authorities.
In the Yatsushiro area, where a chimney collapsed at a Nippon Paper Industries factory, 10 people were rescued, but eight others died, and one remained missing, according to the Kumamoto prefectural government disaster team.
Footage provided by the Japanese government and military showed rescue workers drilling through the collapsed parts of the building in an attempt to get to anyone who may still be trapped inside.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told reporters the central government will take a lead role in coordinating the various rescue efforts. Restoring electricity, gas and water to stricken areas, while supplying fresh water, is key, she said.
“The needs on the ground are constantly changing. To put to rest the people’s feelings of uncertainty, we will do all that needs to be done,” she said.