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275 new tremors hit quake-torn Japan; missing 10,000 in flattened port town
Mail online ^ | March 14, 2011 | Jo Macfarlane

Posted on 03/14/2011 12:35:31 AM PDT by Islander7

Full Title: And the aftershocks go on: 275 new tremors hit quake-torn Japan as fears grow for missing 10,000 in flattened port town

Forty-two survivors have been pulled from the rubble in the flattened town of Minami Sanrik, where up to 10,000 people are feared to have perished.

Around half the town's 18,000 residents are missing but search and rescue teams are still working desperately through the rubble to try and find more people.

Police are also trying to stop people returning to their homes.

Despite the first tsunami warning being issued to the town that lies two miles from the coastline, some residents decided to stay in their homes instead of fleeing – leading to the high number of missing people, CNN reported today..

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disaster; earthquake; japan
Around 1,000 people were washed up on the shores of Ojika Peninsulain Miyagi, while another 1000 were seen in the town of Minamisanriku, Kyodo News reported.

Authorities have been unable to contact 10,000 people in Minamisanriku – more than half of the population living there.

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Incredible photos at the link.

1 posted on 03/14/2011 12:35:36 AM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7

It’s hard to imagine.


2 posted on 03/14/2011 12:41:25 AM PDT by allmost
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To: Islander7

I would be surprised if there aren’t 50,000 dead as a result of this disaster. You get caught in that water, maybe you can float or swim pretty well but there’s little defense against cars and sections of buildings and kilotons of debris crashing into you.


3 posted on 03/14/2011 12:41:41 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Which has more wrinkles? Helen Thomas' face or Lawrence O'Donnells' panties?)
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To: Islander7
Incredible photos at the link.

Yes. This is a ferry on top of a house.


4 posted on 03/14/2011 12:48:33 AM PDT by TChad
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I’m an American in Japan . 2 days ago I told my wife that I bet there were at least 25-30,000 people dead . My guess may turn out to be conservative .


5 posted on 03/14/2011 1:24:16 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: Islander7

The queue pictures need to be displayed with the “free mortgage” pictures from Detroit, I think it was. I’ll try to find it.


6 posted on 03/14/2011 2:01:18 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: sushiman
I remember hearing a report back on Friday that maybe 80,000 people could be unaccounted for, especially along the coastline where the high tsunami wiped out many smaller towns.

We may be talking the worst natural disaster to strike Japan since the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake....

7 posted on 03/14/2011 4:43:31 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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