Tokyo - rescue teams searched for by Matchstick debris Saturday for thousands of people missing in the flooded areas in northeastern of Japan, one of the most complex relief efforts in history from.
The day after the 8.9 earthquake and massive tsunami, all cities were unreachable, and some were feared, wiped off the map. The most estimates put the death toll to 1,700, but police in Miyagi - one of the strongest affected Gebiete-, quoted intelligence services that they expect the number more than 10,000 in this region alone.
About 200,000 people living in shelters. A strip of the main island of Honshū has almost no electricity to communicate with scarce resources. Many places have no heat. Survivors to a primary school in the ravaged coastal city Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."
An explosion at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns about possible radiation leakage evacuations prompted within a 12, 5-mile radius. More than 160 people in nearby Fukushima nuclear power plants have exposed to radiation.
In other areas north of Tokyo, the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake on Friday said witness the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up whole neighborhoods. Attempts, stranded, captured or on the supply have been reach with short by damage to roads and railway lines makes it difficult.
About 9,500 employees in Minamisanriku - a city located in Miyagi 17,000 - remain unclear, the Kyodo News Agency reported, citing local officials. Telephone lines are dead in schools. Footage taken from helicopters allows a before-after comparison: where it once was a fishing and tourist village, it is now a Lake, with only some buildings of the dark black encounter.
"Also the medical relief is a long-term battle," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, a Japanese Red Cross disaster relief officials. "This earthquake is much larger than the earthquake of Kobe [1995]." And Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and it actually still not recovered fully now. "This earthquake recovery will take a long, long time."
Attempts to damage map out 50,000 troops to the disaster zone began only as Japan shipped. The coastal city of Rikuzentakata, in the Prefecture Iwate, was full of water, according to local authorities flooded. A TV reporter who arrived Iwaki in Fukushima, Prefecture said the city had gone.
A derailed train in Miyagi Prefecture, closest to the quake Epicenter, was waylaid seen against the side of a House. There were no reports on the whereabouts of passengers.
Streets pretzeled and fuel in high demand along the undamaged, to the North depends on the Government ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan is 195 aircraft and send 25 ships to the disaster area, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search- and -rescue missions.
Japanese power companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with sources in reduced offer.
On Saturday, Japan's northeastern coast, from above had regarded the appearance of a dark scar. The most violent wave a wall of water upwards of 20 meters in direction of the coast line, and a few kilometres inland sent dissemination. Prime Minister Naoto Kan respondents at 6 pm local time range by helicopter. Those on the ground told the cries from trapped survivors, houses turned to splinters and overwhelmed hospitals and shelters.
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