TOKYO - the teams searched rescue the matchstick rubble Saturday for thousands of missing people in flooded areas in the northeast of the Japan, starting one of the most complex relief in history.
A day after the earthquake of magnitude 8.9 and the massive tsunami, entire towns remained unattainable, and some were feared to be wiped off the map. Most estimates put the number of deaths to 1,700, but services new city police in the Prefecture of Miyagi - one of the most severely affected areas - saying that they expect the number exceeds 10 000 in this region alone.
About 200,000 people live in temporary shelters. A band of the main island of Honshu of Japan has almost no electricity, with meagre means of communicating. Many huts have no heat. Survivors in a primary school in the devastated city coastal Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."
An explosion in a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns possible radiation leak prompted evacuations within a radius of 12.5 km. Up to 160 people near Fukushima nuclear plants were exposed to radiation.
In other areas north of Tokyo, the nearest to the epicentre of the earthquake Friday, witnesses said the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up neighborhoods together. Attempts to reach those short on supplies, trapped or stranded were complicated by damage to roads and tracks.
About 9,500 people in Minamisanriku - city of 17,000 in Miyagi Prefecture - still unaccounted for, reported Kyodo News Agency, quoting local government officials. Telephone lines are dead in the schools. Images taken by helicopters allowed for a comparison of before - after: where there was once a fishing and tourist village, there is now a lake with only a few buildings camouflet from the murky black.
"Even medical relief will be a battle for a long time," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, an official of the Japanese Red Cross for disaster relief. "This earthquake is much larger than the Kobe earthquake [in 1995]." Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and he in fact has not recovered completely even now. This earthquake recovery will take a time long, long. ?
Tent plot damage only began the Japan dispatched 50,000 soldiers of the disaster area. The coastal town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, was completely submerged by water, according to the local authorities. A television journalist who arrived in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, said that the city had disappeared.
A train derailed in the Prefecture of Miyagi, nearest to the epicentre of the earthquake, has been waylaid on the side of a House. There was no report on the comings and goings of passengers.
With pretzeled roads and fuel a strong application intact roads along North, the Government will depend on ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan sends 195 aircraft and 25 ships to the disaster zone, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search and rescue missions.
Japanese electricity companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with the sources of energy supply diminished.
On Saturday, the coast northeast of the Japan, viewed from above, had the appearance of a dark scar. The more virulent wave sent a wall of water more of 20 feet high, to shore and she spread some six miles inland. 6 Hours of the morning, local time, the Prime Minister Naoto Kan surveyed the area by helicopter. On the ground said to cries of survivors trapped, houses has turned to the chips and overtaxed hospitals and shelters.
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