Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Reported finding about two thousand bodies after quake

- About two thousand bodies were found today in the east coast of Miyagi (northeastern Japan) three days after the earthquake, although the official account of the tragedy remains so far in nearly $ 600 more than a thousand dead and 400 missing. A thousand dead bodies were found in the Ojika peninsula and another thousand in the city appeared Minamisanriku in Miyagi province, according to Kyodo.

In this coastal community, the authorities have yet to locate from Friday at about nine to 500 people, half of the population. However, some media think it is possible that many of those missing time to flee to the neighboring town of Tome, Miyagi also. The official figure of 627 thousand deaths also excludes 200 to 300 bodies have been found but have yet to be recovered by rescue teams in Miyagi, the province most affected by the earthquake of magnitude 9 on the Richter scale and by the tsunami.

About 100 thousand soldiers under the command of rescue operations are still combing the area searching for victims trapped under debris or swept out to sea by the tidal wave of ten meters. In many towns, as the city of Sendai, dead bodies continue to appear on beaches and the work of rescue is hampered by the constant aftershocks and the magnitude of the devastation caused by the earthquake, the largest in history Japan.

Over 400 thousand people have been evacuated from the disaster, the worst crisis in Japan since World War II, according to Prime Minister, Naoto Kan. Japan Meteorological Agency said last night that there is a 70% chance that aftershocks occur until Wednesday up to 7 degrees and several embassies advised their citizens not to travel to Japan.

A new and strong seismic tremor was felt on Monday in Tokyo shortly after 10H00 (01H00 GMT), 5.8-magnitude according to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, less than three days after the strongest earthquake in the history of Japan (magnitude 9). The epicenter of the new quake, felt strongly in Tokyo, was at sea, 150 km northeast of the capital, at the height of Ibaraki Prefecture.

Sea level has been changed slightly but no danger of tsunami, according to the Japanese Meteorological Agency. With information from AFP and Reuters

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