Doctors are surprised by earthquake and protect patient in surgery

The incident happened during a 7.1 earthquake in Japan in July.

In the images, you can see the operating room shaking violently and the doctors trying to balance it. Objects in the room are seen moving from side to side or falling to the floor, while the medical team tries to stay upright or leave the room.

Two health professionals, however, are seen grabbing the body of the patient who is on the stretcher and standing firm by his side.

According to the Daily Mail, doctors were preparing to perform abdominal surgery on the patient when the earthquake began. This would be just one of four operations taking place at that time. Watch the video below:

WATCH: Surgeons were caught in the July 28 Kumamoto earthquake during an operation, with one doctor securing the emergency exit while the rest of the surgical team shielded the patient throughout the quake.pic.twitter.com/6iGsjWqxjB

Japanese media reports that the surgery had to be briefly interrupted, but that it returned to normal moments later, having been completed successfully.

The hospital's operations resumed normality days later, on August 5th.

Southeast Japan was shaken at the end of July by a 7.1 earthquake that killed more than 30 people.

The earthquake in southwestern Japan reached the maximum level on the Japanese scale of 7 levels, focused on measuring surface agitation and destructive potential, also causing high material damage.

In the days after the earthquake, concerns about illness increased, worsened by the suffocating heat. Temperatures in Kumamoto were expected to rise to 36ºC today, after the 35ºC recorded on Thursday (6), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Japan is located on the so-called Ring of Fire, one of the most active seismic zones in the world, and suffers earthquakes relatively frequently, so its infrastructure is specially designed to withstand the shocks.