Japan digging out from multiple earthquakes

Rescue workers take care of an elderly woman in Mashiki, Kumamoto, Japan.

Medical staff prepare to evacuate patients from the hospital in Kumamoto City over fears it could collapse as a wave of aftershocks shook the area.

A patient is evacuated by emergency staff from an hospital in Kumamoto City over fears it could collapse as a wave of aftershocks shook the area.

A road damaged by the April 16 earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto, Japan.

People get up right after the April 16 earthquake at the evacuation center at the Mashiki Town Gymnasium in Mashiki, Kumamoto, Japan.

A rescue worker carries an 8-month-old baby girl after she was pulled from the rubble after Thursday’s earthquake near Mashiki, Japan. Rescuers were scrambling to find survivors after the powerful earthquake in southern Japan left at least nine people dead and hundreds injured.

Police rescue team members search through damaged houses to check for survivors in southern Japan after Thursday’s magnitude 6.2 earthquake.

An aerial view shows the damaged Kyushu highway in the city of Mashiki in southern Japan after Thursday’s magnitude 6.2 earthquake.

A general view shows a collapsed wall next to houses in southern Japan after Thursday’s magnitude 6.2 earthquake.

Taketoshi Nagano surveys his damaged house after a 6.2 earthquake hit near Mashiki, Japan, on Thursday.

Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces make rice balls at an evacuation center Friday, a day after the 6.2 earthquake hit near Mashiki, Japan.

A man walks on a street covered with rubble in the Japanese town of Mashiki. A 6.2 earthquake hit Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu on Thursday, collapsing homes and sparking fires.

A man with a child walks past houses destroyed by Thursday’s earthquake in Mashiki, Japan.

A motorcyclist drives on a road badly damaged by Thursday’s earthquake in southern Japan.

A resident carrying a dog walks by houses damaged by Thursday’s 6.2 earthquake in southern Japan.

A resident walks by a collapsed house in southern Japan. Aftershocks rattled communities as businesses and residents got a fuller look Friday at the widespread damage from Thursday’s 6.2 earthquake.