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Latest News Japan in Tsunami, Authorities said in a small town, the port city Minamisanriku, 10,000 people still missing.
In many places in the region, television pictures showed many people were stranded on the roof of the buildings that surrounded the water and filled with debris.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has deployed 50,000 troops to conduct rescue operations.
But the operation was complicated by numerous aftershocks, tsunami warning is still valid, and the roads are damaged.
Cry for help
Hundreds of people are still missing and feared the death toll would rise sharply, after a lot of communities on the seafront was totally destroyed a lot of water.
10-meter-high tsunami crashing into the ground as far as 10 kilometers, destroyed many towns and villages.
In Minamisanriku, in the Miyagi district, 10,000 people still missing means more than half the city population that numbered 17,000 people.
About a third of Kesennuma city, which is also located in Miyagi, drowned. And a city of 74,000 people also suffered widespread fires.
Rikuzentakata seaside town-with a population of 23,000 people in the district of Iwate-almost completely destroyed by the tsunami water level almost reached the third floor of the building mayor.
Miyako city located on the beach and almost the entire city Yamada, who is also located in Iwate, also flooded.
In one of the cities most heavily damaged in the district of Fukushima, many victims still buried under rubble heard screaming for help, as quoted by news agency Kyodo News.
Houses destroyed
A town hall official in the town of Futaba in Fukushima said: "More than 90% of homes in three seaside communities wiped out by the tsunami. From the fourth floor of city hall I do not see a single house left standing."
Four trains that were passing through the coastal areas in Miyagi and Iwate still missing.
In the Ibaraki district, northeast of Tokyo, many homes still do not have the power lines and anteran in a handful of gas stations that are still open very long, says the BBC's Chris Hogg.
More than 200,000 people were in emergency shelters and since the quake on Friday (03/11) afternoon had occurred more than 125 aftershocks.
Earthquake measuring 8.9 Richter hit Japan on Friday and cause a tsunami.
Latest News Japan in Tsunami, Authorities said in a small town, the port city Minamisanriku, 10,000 people still missing.
In many places in the region, television pictures showed many people were stranded on the roof of the buildings that surrounded the water and filled with debris.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has deployed 50,000 troops to conduct rescue operations.
But the operation was complicated by numerous aftershocks, tsunami warning is still valid, and the roads are damaged.
Cry for help
Hundreds of people are still missing and feared the death toll would rise sharply, after a lot of communities on the seafront was totally destroyed a lot of water.
10-meter-high tsunami crashing into the ground as far as 10 kilometers, destroyed many towns and villages.
In Minamisanriku, in the Miyagi district, 10,000 people still missing means more than half the city population that numbered 17,000 people.
About a third of Kesennuma city, which is also located in Miyagi, drowned. And a city of 74,000 people also suffered widespread fires.
Rikuzentakata seaside town-with a population of 23,000 people in the district of Iwate-almost completely destroyed by the tsunami water level almost reached the third floor of the building mayor.
Miyako city located on the beach and almost the entire city Yamada, who is also located in Iwate, also flooded.
In one of the cities most heavily damaged in the district of Fukushima, many victims still buried under rubble heard screaming for help, as quoted by news agency Kyodo News.
Houses destroyed
A town hall official in the town of Futaba in Fukushima said: "More than 90% of homes in three seaside communities wiped out by the tsunami. From the fourth floor of city hall I do not see a single house left standing."
Four trains that were passing through the coastal areas in Miyagi and Iwate still missing.
In the Ibaraki district, northeast of Tokyo, many homes still do not have the power lines and anteran in a handful of gas stations that are still open very long, says the BBC's Chris Hogg.
More than 200,000 people were in emergency shelters and since the quake on Friday (03/11) afternoon had occurred more than 125 aftershocks.
Earthquake measuring 8.9 Richter hit Japan on Friday and cause a tsunami.
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