After yesterday's magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Japan, there were at least 100 aftershocks of magnitude 6 and over, according to the Japanese Meteorological Agency. Today, however, were at least 16 shocks of magnitude 5 to 6.8 on the east coast. The death toll grows by the hour. The state broadcaster NHK is about 10 thousand people scattered in the area of \u200b\u200bthe port of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture, northeast of the country, one of the areas hardest hit by the devastating tsunami following the earthquake yesterday.
Until now there was talk, according to Kyodo news agency of 1600 victims. As for the missing, it is 21 thousand people are displaced in the 1340 tent city that rescue teams have made in the five provinces most affected by the earthquake and tsunami. Meanwhile, rescue teams have already started the evacuation of the debris.
The earthquake was devastating: it has destroyed part of the country only because the buildings are all made in Japan with seismic criteria. A Iwanuma, not far from Sendai, the coastal city in northeastern Japan's most affected by the earthquake and tsunami, doctors and nurses were up on the roof of a hospital semi-submerged and formed the sign of S.
OS in an attempt to attract the attention of rescue planes. More than a million people without water. According to the Japanese authorities, at least 1.4 million homes are without water after the devastating earthquake and tsunami yesterday. Fifty-nine tankers have already been sent to the areas most affected.
About 3 million people are without electricity and the companies announced that it will take a while to restore service. In response to several strong aftershocks, including a magnitude greater than 6 on the Richter scale, which occur in Japan, public TV has warned that there may be other tsunami.
Naoto Kan (Japanese Prime Minister): "An unprecedented disaster." Disaster to overcome "all together," said Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, at a press conference after this morning made a visit to the places destroyed by the tsunami. "The quake caused a tsunami larger than expected." Naoto Kan, has appealed for calm to the inhabitants of the Fukushima nuclear plant and pledged to ensure that there will be no risk to their health.
The premier, who spoke on television on live television, said that the country has a challenge before the "unprecedented" and must respond "responsibly". Finally, he thanked the international community immediately offered technical support and built-in support to help Japan to help out.
Frattini: "Da contact another 17 Italians." We still need to contact less than twenty Italians, but otherwise we have no missing persons or even worse incidents reported in Japan, "said the foreign minister, Franco Frattini, who today took part in the informal Council of EU heads of diplomacy of Budapest.
"The Japanese authorities to tell us now that no foreigner is involved in the tragic events of yesterday and we are still trying to track down all our citizens" added the Minister. In Japan there are about 3 000 Italians, "one of them has asked to come back," but there are absolutely no "evacuation plans." Caught a train derailed another lost a ship.
According to the agency write a passenger train was hit by a wave and completely destroyed between Nobiru and Sendai. We do not know how many people were on board, likely to reach an update in the coming hours. Another train derailed instead. A ship is lost for hours and have little hope of finding survivors.
On board there were at least a hundred people. The army to control nuclear power plants. A team of Japanese armed forces had received orders to reach the area where there is a nuclear power plant in Fukushima. The Kyodo news agency reported. A dam collapsed, homes washed away. A dam in the Fukushima prefecture has broken all the water pouring downstream swept away dozens of homes.
The Kyodo agency reported, although it is unclear the extent of the consequences. Refinery exploded. In Tokyo, the quake triggered the panic. Some refineries have exploded and the stations were closed for safety. The offices were immediately evacuated and public transport is blocked for security.
The time that has happened, at 14.45 (6:45 to Italian), allowed an immediate reaction to the emergency. Tokyo airport and railway lines were closed. Blocked the four nuclear assets. In the turbine room of the central Onagawa a fire broke out following the earthquake. The government in Tokyo said the emergency situation to any risk of radioactive leaks by ensuring that when none have been recorded.
The tremors have also folded the Tokyo Tower, a symbol of the capital of the antennas. Calls for calm. The Japanese prime minister sought to reassure the public by inviting them to stay calm. "We launched an operating committee of emergency and ask everyone to pay close attention to all the signs that will be provided.
We must keep calm, "said Naoto Kan, the brief statement that followed the extraordinary cabinet meeting, wearing blue overalls used for emergency situations. The prime minister added that an initial review "the damages are substantial," while the Japanese cabinet secretary, Yukio Edan, said that it was the worst earthquake the country's history.
Solidarity from around the world. Instant international solidarity to Japan. The Kremlin leader Dmitri Medvedev announced that Russia is ready to provide aid for the earthquake today and asked to take action in the Kuril Islands, claimed by Tokyo, to prevent injuries and damage as the tsunami associated with the earthquake in Japan.
France also said it was "ready to answer all the possible stresses that Japan will ask you to cope with this tragedy," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a letter to Prime Minister Naoto Kan. In his message, Sarkozy expressed "support and solidarity" of France to Japan and its people, "in this particularly difficult time." British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to help Japan hit by an earthquake "that makes us be terrible reminder of the destructive forces of nature." Speaking on the margins of the EU summit in Brussels, Cameron said that "everyone should think about that country and its people" and said he had asked his government "to understand what Britain can do to be helpful." The Foreign Office has meanwhile established a dedicated telephone line to the British who have friends and relatives in Japan.
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent a letter to Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, to express his condolences for the victims of the earthquake and to emphasize the closeness of Berlin and Japan. "I learned with dismay the news of the terrible earthquake that shook his country," reads the letter, whose text was published.
"Please send my sincere condolences to the relatives of the victims and my best wishes for recovery to the wounded. You may be sure that Germany is on the side of Japan in these tragic hours and is ready to help. " The Crisis Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the early hours of this morning is in contact with the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo, which, in turn, has set up a crisis cell to contact these Italians in the areas most affected by the earthquake and ensure on their health status and pay, where necessary, assistance.
Meanwhile, the network teams thirty-five UN search and rescue operations in disaster relief are ready to intervene if the Japanese government so requests. , Said in Geneva today the spokesman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Elizabeth Byrs. The UN experts in Geneva are in constant contact with Japan.
Shifted the axis of rotation of the earth. The earthquake shifted the earth's rotation axis of almost 10 cm. And 'what emerges from preliminary studies conducted by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. The impact of this event on the axis of rotation, experts estimate, "was also much greater than that of the great Sumatra earthquake of 2004 and probably second only to Chile earthquake of 1960." Search engine for missing persons.
Google also takes the field to help search for the missing in the tsunami Japanese, triggering a search engine accessible to all those who have or seek information on missing persons. At japan. person-finder. appspot. com you can enter the name of the person to be searched, resulting in any messages left by other people as I heard it's alive "or" Someone is looking for.
" The service had already been used last year during the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti. Twitter also seems to be a favorite tool for Japanese exchange information: less than an hour after the earthquake the number of tweets from Tokyo jumped to about 1200 per minute. 28 missing Italians call.
Currently missing in the area of \u200b\u200bJapan 28 Italian affected 'by the devastating earthquake of magnitude 8.9. He told the ambassador of Italy, Vincenzo Petrone. The news' was confirmed by the Foreign Ministry that the communication difficulties, jump all over the area, make it impossible to contact all the compatriots in Japan.
Until now there was talk, according to Kyodo news agency of 1600 victims. As for the missing, it is 21 thousand people are displaced in the 1340 tent city that rescue teams have made in the five provinces most affected by the earthquake and tsunami. Meanwhile, rescue teams have already started the evacuation of the debris.
The earthquake was devastating: it has destroyed part of the country only because the buildings are all made in Japan with seismic criteria. A Iwanuma, not far from Sendai, the coastal city in northeastern Japan's most affected by the earthquake and tsunami, doctors and nurses were up on the roof of a hospital semi-submerged and formed the sign of S.
OS in an attempt to attract the attention of rescue planes. More than a million people without water. According to the Japanese authorities, at least 1.4 million homes are without water after the devastating earthquake and tsunami yesterday. Fifty-nine tankers have already been sent to the areas most affected.
About 3 million people are without electricity and the companies announced that it will take a while to restore service. In response to several strong aftershocks, including a magnitude greater than 6 on the Richter scale, which occur in Japan, public TV has warned that there may be other tsunami.
Naoto Kan (Japanese Prime Minister): "An unprecedented disaster." Disaster to overcome "all together," said Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, at a press conference after this morning made a visit to the places destroyed by the tsunami. "The quake caused a tsunami larger than expected." Naoto Kan, has appealed for calm to the inhabitants of the Fukushima nuclear plant and pledged to ensure that there will be no risk to their health.
The premier, who spoke on television on live television, said that the country has a challenge before the "unprecedented" and must respond "responsibly". Finally, he thanked the international community immediately offered technical support and built-in support to help Japan to help out.
Frattini: "Da contact another 17 Italians." We still need to contact less than twenty Italians, but otherwise we have no missing persons or even worse incidents reported in Japan, "said the foreign minister, Franco Frattini, who today took part in the informal Council of EU heads of diplomacy of Budapest.
"The Japanese authorities to tell us now that no foreigner is involved in the tragic events of yesterday and we are still trying to track down all our citizens" added the Minister. In Japan there are about 3 000 Italians, "one of them has asked to come back," but there are absolutely no "evacuation plans." Caught a train derailed another lost a ship.
According to the agency write a passenger train was hit by a wave and completely destroyed between Nobiru and Sendai. We do not know how many people were on board, likely to reach an update in the coming hours. Another train derailed instead. A ship is lost for hours and have little hope of finding survivors.
On board there were at least a hundred people. The army to control nuclear power plants. A team of Japanese armed forces had received orders to reach the area where there is a nuclear power plant in Fukushima. The Kyodo news agency reported. A dam collapsed, homes washed away. A dam in the Fukushima prefecture has broken all the water pouring downstream swept away dozens of homes.
The Kyodo agency reported, although it is unclear the extent of the consequences. Refinery exploded. In Tokyo, the quake triggered the panic. Some refineries have exploded and the stations were closed for safety. The offices were immediately evacuated and public transport is blocked for security.
The time that has happened, at 14.45 (6:45 to Italian), allowed an immediate reaction to the emergency. Tokyo airport and railway lines were closed. Blocked the four nuclear assets. In the turbine room of the central Onagawa a fire broke out following the earthquake. The government in Tokyo said the emergency situation to any risk of radioactive leaks by ensuring that when none have been recorded.
The tremors have also folded the Tokyo Tower, a symbol of the capital of the antennas. Calls for calm. The Japanese prime minister sought to reassure the public by inviting them to stay calm. "We launched an operating committee of emergency and ask everyone to pay close attention to all the signs that will be provided.
We must keep calm, "said Naoto Kan, the brief statement that followed the extraordinary cabinet meeting, wearing blue overalls used for emergency situations. The prime minister added that an initial review "the damages are substantial," while the Japanese cabinet secretary, Yukio Edan, said that it was the worst earthquake the country's history.
Solidarity from around the world. Instant international solidarity to Japan. The Kremlin leader Dmitri Medvedev announced that Russia is ready to provide aid for the earthquake today and asked to take action in the Kuril Islands, claimed by Tokyo, to prevent injuries and damage as the tsunami associated with the earthquake in Japan.
France also said it was "ready to answer all the possible stresses that Japan will ask you to cope with this tragedy," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a letter to Prime Minister Naoto Kan. In his message, Sarkozy expressed "support and solidarity" of France to Japan and its people, "in this particularly difficult time." British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to help Japan hit by an earthquake "that makes us be terrible reminder of the destructive forces of nature." Speaking on the margins of the EU summit in Brussels, Cameron said that "everyone should think about that country and its people" and said he had asked his government "to understand what Britain can do to be helpful." The Foreign Office has meanwhile established a dedicated telephone line to the British who have friends and relatives in Japan.
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent a letter to Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, to express his condolences for the victims of the earthquake and to emphasize the closeness of Berlin and Japan. "I learned with dismay the news of the terrible earthquake that shook his country," reads the letter, whose text was published.
"Please send my sincere condolences to the relatives of the victims and my best wishes for recovery to the wounded. You may be sure that Germany is on the side of Japan in these tragic hours and is ready to help. " The Crisis Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the early hours of this morning is in contact with the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo, which, in turn, has set up a crisis cell to contact these Italians in the areas most affected by the earthquake and ensure on their health status and pay, where necessary, assistance.
Meanwhile, the network teams thirty-five UN search and rescue operations in disaster relief are ready to intervene if the Japanese government so requests. , Said in Geneva today the spokesman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Elizabeth Byrs. The UN experts in Geneva are in constant contact with Japan.
Shifted the axis of rotation of the earth. The earthquake shifted the earth's rotation axis of almost 10 cm. And 'what emerges from preliminary studies conducted by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. The impact of this event on the axis of rotation, experts estimate, "was also much greater than that of the great Sumatra earthquake of 2004 and probably second only to Chile earthquake of 1960." Search engine for missing persons.
Google also takes the field to help search for the missing in the tsunami Japanese, triggering a search engine accessible to all those who have or seek information on missing persons. At japan. person-finder. appspot. com you can enter the name of the person to be searched, resulting in any messages left by other people as I heard it's alive "or" Someone is looking for.
" The service had already been used last year during the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti. Twitter also seems to be a favorite tool for Japanese exchange information: less than an hour after the earthquake the number of tweets from Tokyo jumped to about 1200 per minute. 28 missing Italians call.
Currently missing in the area of \u200b\u200bJapan 28 Italian affected 'by the devastating earthquake of magnitude 8.9. He told the ambassador of Italy, Vincenzo Petrone. The news' was confirmed by the Foreign Ministry that the communication difficulties, jump all over the area, make it impossible to contact all the compatriots in Japan.
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