Friday, March 25, 2011

More than 23 thousand dead and missing in the earthquake and tsunami in Japan

.- The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on 11 in Japan rose today to the nine thousand 301 people while another 13 thousand 786 were missing, according to the last count of the Japanese police. Twelve days after the earthquake of 9 degrees on the northeast coast of Japan, the worst natural disaster after World War II, the fear is still to increase the victims while trying to restore infrastructure to cater to the victims.

About 320 thousand people have been evacuated from their homes. Most are staying at the two thousand 100 temporary shelters licensed by the authorities. Among them are the 200 000 evacuees around the nuclear plant in Fukushima, where technicians and military try to run the electricity in their reactors to prevent radiation leaks.

According to official figures, there were five thousand Miyagi 607 dead, two thousand Iwate Fukushima 875 and 762, but the missing number in the thousands in these three provinces, the most devastated by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Since the severe earthquake on Friday 11, in Japan there have been nearly 700 replies and almost every day there is a quake of more than six degrees on the Richter scale, which usually has its epicenter in the devastated area.

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