2024-01-07 12:44:46
A 90 year old womanwhich remained trapped under rubble for five days from his house destroyed by the earthquake that shook Japan on New Year’s Day, was miraculously rescued alive, once morest all odds since specialists consider that the chances of finding survivors are practically zero. As if that were not enough with the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that had waves one meter high, this Sunday it was snowing in vast areas of the country, which further complicated the relief efforts.
At least 128 people died in the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that hit the Noto peninsula on January 1, on the edge of the Sea of Japan, on the western coast of the archipelago, and 195 are still missing, according to a new balance reported on Sunday. They are also reported 560 injured.
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The earthquake and its hundreds of followingshocks demolished homes, started fires and triggered a tsunami with waves more than a meter high.
Hope of finding survivors usually fades three days following an earthquake, but the rescued woman passed five days under the rubble of a collapsed house in the city of Suzu, before being saved this weekend by rescuers.
The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment and responded clearly to the lifeguards’ questions, according to the public broadcaster. NHK.
“Endurance!”the rescuers shouted at him in the rain, according to a video filmed by police officers and broadcast by local media. “Everything is going to be fine”“stay positive,” they asked her.
Many others were less fortunate. In the city of Anamizuon the same peninsula, a 52-year-old man who lost his 21-year-old son and his in-laws was waiting for news from other members of his family.
“I wish they were alive, I don’t want to be alone”expressed in dialogue with NHK.
helicopter missions
Many communities on the Noto Peninsula have been isolated by damaged roads and landslides that block the passage of aid vehicles.
He bad weather and the snow fall scheduled for this Sunday threatens to hinder the mission of the thousands of police, troops and other rescue workers deployed in the area.
Furthermore, the conditions of more than 30,000 people living in 366 shelters of the government as a result of the difficulty in getting relief material to the affected areas that are suffering from water and electricity cuts.
“The first priority has been to rescue people who are under the rubble and reach isolated communities”declared the prime minister Fumio Kishida in an interview with NHK. In parallel, he announced that the army has sent small groups of troops on foot to each of the isolated communities.
Kishida also added that the Japanese government has “deployed several helicopters of the police and firefighters (…) to access them (isolated communities) from the sky”
In the city of Anamizu, several rescuers in orange or blue raincoats were seen carrying the body of a landslide victim, covered with a blue tarp.
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In this context, among the widespread destruction in the city of Wajima, the traditional red door of a sanctuary It was still standing, but the view through it became a mess of splintered wood and toppled beams.
Japan experiences hundreds of earthquakes each year and most of them cause no damage, due to strict building codes in place for more than four decades. However, many of the buildings in the country are old, especially in communities in rural areas like Noto.
The Asian country still retains the memory of the devastating 2011 earthquake that triggered a tsunami, left some 18,500 dead or missing and caused a nuclear catastrophe at the power plant. Fukushima.
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