This Monday, Japanese authorities raised to 323 the number of missing people after the earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale that hit the country’s Midwest on January 1.
The latest assessment by the authorities lists 210 missing people, most of whom are in the cities of Wajima, one of the most affected areas of the Noto Peninsula, in the Sea of Japan, and Suzu.
The provisional balance in the entire region after the catastrophe is 168 dead and 565 injured, according to Japanese authorities.
The earthquake, which hit the Ishikawa region of central Japan, caused considerable damage to roads, houses and other buildings.
Authorities believe hundreds of people remain trapped or isolated as they wait for rescue services to arrive.
Repeated aftershocks and adverse weather conditions have caused new landslides and flooding in the affected areas.
Due to damage to infrastructure, authorities have also had difficulties transporting food and drinking water to the approximately 31,000 people who remain sheltered in approximately 357 shelters.
Monday’s earthquake is already the deadliest in Japan since 2011, when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused a ‘tsunami’ that left more than 20,000 dead and triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the worst since Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986. .
Source: TSF
