This is the terrifying moment the lights went out across a Japanese city as the country was rocked by a powerful earthquake that has killed at least eight and buried dozens more in landslides.
Footage shows how buildings and streets were plunged into darkness in Japan's Hokkaido prefecture as the deadly 6.7-magnitude quake disabled power systems just after 3am today.
Multiple, large-scale landslides struck the sparsely populated countryside, which was also hit by the edge of Typhoon Jebi that surged through Japan earlier this week killing at least 11.
Aerial views showed dozens of houses destroyed at the bottom of a hill that was engulfed by mud and rocks, with a rescue helicopter winching a resident to safety. Airports and many roads on the island were closed and trains were halted due to power outages.
More than five million have been left without power after the quake damaged a major thermal plant supplying the region.
The island's only nuclear power plant, which was offline, switched to a backup generator to keep its spent fuel cool and nuclear regulators said there was no sign of abnormal radiation - a concern after a massive quake and tsunami in March 2011 that hit northeast Japan destroyed both external and backup power to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, causing meltdowns.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that up to 25,000 troops and other personnel would be dispatched to Hokkaido to help with rescue operations.
Japan is used to dealing with disasters, but the last few months have brought a string of calamities. The quake came on the heels of a typhoon that killed 11, lifted heavy trucks off their wheels and triggered heavy flooding in western Japan. The summer also brought devastating floods from torrential rains in Hiroshima and deadly hot temperatures across the country.
This is the terrifying moment the lights went out across a Japanese city as the country was rocked by a powerful earthquake that has killed at least eight and buried dozens more in landslides
A powerful earthquake has rocked the city of Sapporo in northern Japan just hours after large parts of the south of the country were battered by the biggest typhoon to hit in 25 years
The 6.7 magnitude quake hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido early on Thursday, triggering landslides, bringing down several houses, and killing one person
No tsunami warning was issued after the relatively shallow quake, which struck 39 miles southeast of the regional capital Sapporo. An aftershock measuring 5.3 rocked the area moments later and smaller aftershocks followed throughout the night
More than a hundred were injured and 38 are still missing after the 6.7 magnitude quake rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido early this morning. This was the scene as rescuers searched for missing people in the remains of a buried house
Cars were buried as the powerful 6.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Sapporo in Japan's Hokkaido prefecture early this morning
Massive landslides ripped through roads and communities in Hokkaido while millions have been left without electricity after the quake caused a blackout
Eight have been confirmed dead but dozens more are missing and feared to be trapped under rubble from landslides in the area. Pictured: Rescuers carry a victim into an ambulance in Atsuma town
Products were thrown off shelves in shops while many buildings suffered structural damage in the powerful earthquake this morning
In the prefectural capital of Sapporo, a city of 1.9 million, the quake ruptured roads and knocked houses askew. A mudslide left several cars half buried.
Kazuo Kibayashi, 51, a town official at hard-hit Abira town, told AFP: 'There was a sudden, extreme jolt. I felt it went sideways, not up-and-down, for about two to three minutes.'
'It stopped before shaking started again. I felt it come in two waves. I am 51, and I have never experienced anything like this. I thought my house was going to collapse. Everything inside my house was all jumbled up. I didn't have time to even start cleaning,' he added.
Moments after the initial quake, an aftershock measuring 5.3 rocked the area and dozens more aftershocks followed throughout the night and into the morning.
Akira Fukui, from the main city of Sapporo, told AFP: 'I woke up around 3am with a vertical jolt. I put the light on but it went out shortly afterwards. All the traffic lights are out and there's no power at work.'
No tsunami warning was issued after the relatively shallow quake, which struck 62 kilometres (39 miles) southeast of the regional capital Sapporo.
Around 20,000 rescue workers, including police and members of the Self-Defence Forces were responding to the disaster, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said. Another 20,000 SDF troops are expected to join the effort.
'We will do our best to save lives,' Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said after an emergency cabinet meeting.
NHK reported that eight people had lost their lives, six of them in the village of Atsuma, where the landslide engulfed the homes. Nearly 40 people were still missing, the broadcaster added.
The magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck southern Hokkaido early Thursday morning, knocking out power to millions of households. The outage also affected subways, power plants and hospitals
Streets in Hokkaido prefecture were buried under a thick layer of mud, destroying cars and damaging homes in some neigbourhoods
Aerial views showed dozens of houses destroyed at the bottom of a hill that was engulfed by mud and rocks, with a rescue helicopter winching a resident to safety
Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces are seen inside Abira town office after it was damaged during the earthquake
Multiple, large-scale landslides struck the sparsely populated countryside, which was also hit by the edge of Typhoon Jebi that surged through Japan earlier this week killing at least 11
Rescuers were rushing to unearth survivors and restore power Thursday after a powerful earthquake jolted Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, buckling roads, knocking homes off their foundations and causing entire hillsides to collapse
Local media said the dead also included an 82-year-old man who fell down the stairs at his home during the quake and that around 130 people had sustained minor injuries.
'I urge people in areas shaken by strong quakes to stay calm, pay attention to evacuation information... and help each other,' Suga added.
Officials warned of the danger of fresh quakes.
'Large quakes often occur, especially within two to three days (of a big one),' said Toshiyuki Matsumori, in charge of monitoring earthquakes and tsunamis at the meteorological agency.
The risk of housing collapses and landslides had increased, he said, urging residents 'to pay full attention to seismic activity and rainfall and not to go into dangerous areas.'
The earthquake also caused travel disruption, with all flights cancelled from Sapporo's main Chitose airport, where the quake brought down part of a ceiling and burst a water pipe. Local buses and trains and bullet train services were halted.
Residents in Sapporo were shaken from their beds when the magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck southern Hokkaido at 3.08am
Japan's Meteorological Agency said the quake's epicenter was 40 kilometers (24 miles) deep. But it still wreaked havoc across much of the relatively sparsely inhabited island
Police officers and fire fighters search for missing people at a collapsed house following a large landslide that occurred after an earthquake hit Hokkaido, in Atsuma, northern Japan
Rescuers were using small backhoes and shovels to sift through the tons of soil, rocks and timber in hopes of finding survivors in the town of Atsuma, where steep mountainsides collapsed, crushing homes and farm buildings and leaving scores of brown gashes in the deep green hills
Japan is used to dealing with disasters, but the last few months have brought a string of calamities. The quake came on the heels of a typhoon that lifted heavy trucks off their wheels and triggered heavy flooding in western Japan
As Japan's northern frontier and a major farming region with rugged mountain ranges and vast forests, Hokkaido is an area accustomed to coping with long winters, isolation and other hardships. But the blackouts brought on by the quake underscored the country's heavy reliance on vulnerable power systems
Hundreds more were injured when homes and infrastructure along the west coast were devastated by Typhoon Jebi - Japan's most powerful storm in a quarter of a century
Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko said it would take 'at least a week' for power to be restored to nearly three million homes after a fire in the area's largest thermal plant was discovered.
And the national meteorological agency warned that more bad weather could be on the way for Hokkaido, urging people to be vigilant for landslides, high tides and heavy rain.
Japan sits on the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' where many of the world's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are recorded.
In June, a deadly tremor rocked the Osaka region, killing five people and injuring over 350.
On March 11, 2011, a devastating 9.0-magnitude quake struck under the Pacific Ocean, and the resulting tsunami caused widespread damage and claimed thousands of lives.
Yesterday, Japan was still recovering from the devastation caused by Typhoon Jebi - the country's most powerful storm in a quarter of a century.
Kansai International Airport - one of the country's busiest - was cut off when a 2,500-ton tanker smashed into the terminal's sole access road (pictured yesterday) meaning thousands had to spend the night in the partially flooded facility
Kansai International Airport is built on artificial islands in Osaka Bay, and the high seas flooded one of its two runways (pictured), cargo storage and other facilities, said the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. One passenger was slightly injured by shards from a window shattered by the storm
More than 1.2 million people had been advised to leave their homes as Jebi approached the Kansai area - Japan's industrial heartland. Around 16,000 people spent the night in shelters, local media said. This was the scene yesterday in Kobe, western Japan after cars were left piled up in a heap
More than 100 used cars at a storage site caught fire after the area was submerged due to a high tide as Typhoon Jebi smashed into Nishinomiy
Kansai International Airport - one of the country's busiest - was cut off when a 2,500-ton tanker smashed into the terminal's sole access road meaning thousands had to spend the night in the partially flooded facility.
Yesterday, boats were ferrying stranded passengers to the mainland while footage showed a caravan of buses making a perilous trip across the damaged bridge - yards from the spot where the ship had crashed into the carriageway amid 135mph winds yesterday.
Runways were flooded as high waves washed into the facility on Tuesday, knocking out electricity and inundating buildings.
Elsewhere, a large commercial ship was washed onto a breakwater, and shipping containers were left floating in the sea. In Kyoto, the former imperial capital and a popular tourist destination, wooden shrine buildings and tall orange-red entrance gates were knocked down. Soaring trees fell at a shrine in Nara, another historic city.
The morning after: Trees were ripped out of the ground by the force of the 135mph typhoon as it ripped across Nishi-ku, Osaka city
Dozens of large shipping containers stacked up at a port in the city of Osaka were tossed around in winds topping 135mph
A ship was driven up on to a sea wall (pictured yesterday), such was the force of the wind when Typhoon Jebi struck in Nishinomiya, western Japan
Giant cranes at a port in Nishinomiya, western Japan, came crashing down (pictured yesterday) after being battered by high winds during the Typhoo
Jebi, or 'swallow' in Korean, later slammed into Russia territory - causing flash floods on Sakhalin Island to Japan's north.
Japan is regularly hit by powerful typhoons in the summer and autumn, many of which cause flooding and landslides in rural areas.
Jebi appears to have caused damage to the region's infrastructure on an unusual scale.
In the tourist magnet of Kyoto - home to ancient temples and shrines - it brought down part of the ceiling of the main railway station, while in nearby Osaka, the high winds peeled scaffolding from a multi-story building.
Footage on NHK showed a 328ft tall ferris wheel in Osaka spinning furiously in the strong wind despite being switched off.
A huge tanker came adrift (pictured) and smashed sideways into a bridge linking the mainland with Kansai International Airport
A 2,591-tonne tanker was sent crashing into a bridge connecting Kansai airport, built on a man-made island in a bay, to the mainland. The bridge was damaged but the tanker was empty and none of its crew was injured, the coast guard said
Electricity pylons lie in twisted ruins after being brought down by the ferocity of gusts when the typhoon hit Tadaoka, Osaka
A man stands next to the overturned car blown by strong wind as Typhoon Jebi, the strongest storm in 25 years, hit Osaka
'I've never seen such a thing,' a 19-year-old man at the scene told NHK.
Businesses, factories and schools in the affected area shut down while the storm barrelled across the country, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights, ferry services and some bullet trains.
Despite its strength, the storm was far from the deadliest Japan has seen in recent years.
In 2011, Typhoon Talas killed at least 82 people in the area, while in 2013, a storm that hit south of Tokyo left 40 people dead.
Earlier this year torrential rains lashed the west of the country, sparking flooding that killed more than 200 people as it laid waste to villages and caused hillsides to collapse.
A truck sits at an angle on a bridge after being blown over by strong winds caused by Typhoon Jebi in Sakade, Japan
Japan's weather agency has issued warnings about possible landslides, flooding and violent winds, as well as high tides, lightning and tornadoes across of western Japan including the major cities of Osaka and Kyoto. Water crashes over a sea wall in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan
Dash cam footage shows how lorries were blown over by the powerful winds as Japan suffered its worst storm in 25 years
Powerful winds caused havoc in western parts of the country. Footage has emerged showing roofing panels being torn off buildings (left) and a ferris wheel being blown around by the force of the wind
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