UPDATED April 16, 2016 PT, 3:30 p.m. with new death toll

Toppled buildings and destroyed roads could be seen throughout the Kyushu island of Japan on Saturday local time as people began to assess the damage of an overnight 7.3-magnitude earthquake.

And just hours after daylight broke, a 5.4-magnitude temblor rattled the southern island. It was the third quake since Thursday's magnitude-6.5 earthquake in the area.

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About 41 people have died following the quakes, according to the Associated Press. Roughly 1,500 have been injured by the quakes, 80 of them seriously, Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told the wire service.

A police officer stands guard in front of a house destroyed by an earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. Image: Ryosuke Uematsu/Kyodo News via AP



Rescue workers sifted through rubble and flattened homes Saturday morning in search of survivors. The multiple quakes and various aftershocks have left people in the region on edge.

Kumamoto police received more than 300 calls from people seeking help and reporting people trapped or buried underneath debris, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said during an emergency news conference early Saturday, the AP reports. Nearly 200,000 homes had lost electricity and drinking water systems had failed in the area, according to Japanese media. A major landslide was reported in Minamiaso.

In this aerial photo, the landslide caused by the earthquake disrupts the road in Minamiaso town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. Image: Kyodo News via AP



Patients were evacuated early Saturday from a 500-bed hospital in Kumamoto, the capital of Kumamoto Prefecture on Kyushu Island, which was on the verge of collapse, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK. A castle in Kumamoto has been roped off since Friday as boulders encircled the damaged grounds.

In Uto City, the city hall building was badly damaged, making it unsafe to enter and in Mashiki, the asphalt outside the town hall was cracked. Cracked asphalt was a common sight Saturday morning throughout the region. A village near a dam was evacuated because authorities feared the dam may burst due to damage.

Rescue workers try to save people from a collaspsed house in Mimami-Aso, Kuammoto prefecture, on April 16, 2016. Image: JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images



Exterior wall of city hall in Uto after the earthquake hit Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. Image: Muneyuki Tomari/Kyodo News via AP



A woman is carried after being rescued from a house collapsed by an earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. Image: Naoya Osato/Kyodo News via AP



Vehicles sit at a parking lot damaged by an earthquake at Minamiaso in Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. Image: Muneyuki Tomari/Kyodo News via AP



A road is split in earthquake-hit Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. Image: Naoya Osato/Kyodo News via AP



A car sits on a road collapsed by an earthquake in Minamiaso, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. Image: Muneyuki Tomari/Kyodo News via AP



The stonewall of Kumamoto Castle is seen damaged after the earthquake in Kumamoto city, southern Japan, Saturday, April 16, 2016. Image: Kyodo News via AP



Crack in the ground caused by Saturday morning's earthquake are seen in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture on April 16, 2016. Image: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images



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