A desperate search for survivors is underway in Southern Japan even as authorities and residents brace themselves for the possibility of a third quake. Rescue crews scramble through rubble Saturday in a race against time following the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck Japan’s Kyushu Island, the same region rattled by a 6.2 quake two days earlier. A total of 25 people have died in both earthquakes, according to current estimates. The death toll in the latest Kyushu earthquake is 16 people, according to Kumamoto Prefecture’s disaster management office.
