No new casualties or residential damage were confirmed in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on Wednesday after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 hit the region the previous evening, the prefectural government said.Two prefectural roads remain closed to traffic Wednesday due to falling rocks and cracks on the road surface. In the village of Ubuyama, where the quake registered upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7, two vehicles were struck by falling rocks on a prefectural road, but no injuries were reported.The previous day, local officials had confirmed…READ FULL ARTICLE
