A car (R) is stuck on a road damaged by an earthquake in Sapporo, Hokkaido prefecture on September 6, 2018.<br />A powerful 6.6-magnitude quake rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on September 6, triggering landslides, collapsing buildings, and killing at least two people with several dozen missing. / AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS / Japan OUT
A powerful 6.6-magnitude quake rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Thursday, killing at least eight people, collapsing homes, and triggering landslides that left dozens missing.
Multiple, large-scale landslides struck the sparsely populated countryside, which was also hit by the edge of a powerful typhoon that surged through Japan earlier this week.
Aerial views showed dozens of houses destroyed at the bottom of…
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