2024-01-05 01:51:44
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 3 hours ago, Updated 3 hours ago
The 7.5 magnitude quake shook the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, collapsing buildings and devastating roads. KIM KYUNG-HOON / REUTERS
The 72-hour window, considered crucial for finding survivors after a natural disaster, closed Thursday.
At least 242 people were missing on the morning of Friday January 5 in central Japan, almost four days after the powerful New Year’s earthquake, according to a provisional report from the Ishikawa department. The authorities of this department located on the coast of the Sea of Japan have also announced that they have already recorded 92 deaths, a toll that is expected to rise further while emergency services are still searching the rubble of the disaster.
The 7.5 magnitude quake, felt as far away as Tokyo, 300 km away, shook the Noto peninsula in the Ishikawa department, a narrow strip of land that extends about a hundred kilometers into the sea. of Japan, collapsing buildings and devastating roads. The 72-hour window, considered crucial for finding survivors after a natural disaster, closed Thursday, and Ishikawa Governor Hiroshi Hase said he feared “the survival rate of people needing to be rescued does not drop sharply”.
Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is one of the countries with the most frequent earthquakes. The Japanese archipelago is haunted by the memory of the terrible 9.0 magnitude earthquake followed by a giant tsunami in March 2011 on its northeastern coasts, a disaster which left some 20,000 people dead or missing. This disaster also led to the Fukushima nuclear accident, the most serious since Chernobyl in 1986.
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