Japan rescuers race against clock to find quake survivors • FRANCE 24 English
With collapsed houses and severely damaged roads this is one of the worst affected areas of Monday’s earthquake the 7.6 magnitude Quake struck along Western Japan’s Noto Peninsula thousands of soldiers firefighters and police officers have been sent to the area prime minister fumio kishida described the search and rescue efforts as a battle against
Time we have made the utmost efforts to gather information but it has been extremely difficult to reach the northern part of Noto Peninsula due to roadblock for some the cleanup has already begun and it stirred memories of a 2007 earthquake in the same area we had only just rebuilt our house
After the last earthquake I don’t think we can rebuild it again according to the Hoku Riku Electrical Company more than 30,000 homes hes were still without power on Tuesday afternoon while some areas were also cut off from running water in my household power is still running but the problem is
Water even in areas where water is still running they are being asked to save as much as possible after shocks continued to shake the affected area on Tuesday and the country’s weather agency has warned there could be more earthquakes in the coming days there are several nuclear facilities in the region though none
Have reported major irregularities
Japanese rescuers battled the clock and powerful aftershocks Tuesday to find survivors of a New Year’s Day earthquake that killed at least 48 people and caused widespread destruction.
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