About a dozen people evacuated a remote island in southwestern Japan on Friday, the day after a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 hit the area following about two weeks of smaller quakes.Akuseki Island on the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture logged a quake measuring in the lower 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 Thursday afternoon. All 76 people on the island at the time were soon confirmed to be uninjured.As quakes of up to a 4 on the scale hit the island on Friday morning, the 13 evacuees, including children and the elderly, boarded a ferry readied by the v…READ FULL ARTICLE
