The number of victims of a series of earthquakes that occurred in the Ishikawa Prefecture in West Japan increased to 78.
According to the Japanese meteorological agency (JMA), on January 1-3, on the NOO Peninsula, which is the northern part of the Ishikawa Prefecture, as well as on the coast of the peninsula, a series of earthquakes of magnitude from 5 to 7.
occurred.
On Thursday, January 4, two more earthquakes occurred on the peninsula: at 00.36, local time with magnitude 4.8, in 04.38 – magnitude 4.9. Afterchoki continues.
About the fate of over 50 people know nothing.
The administration of the Governor of the Prefecture of Ishikawa reported that more than 300 people were injured as a result of earthquakes, all of them undergo treatment.
Partial damage occurred in 165 schools and other institutions in the prefecture. More than 30 thousand people are at temporary accommodation points, such as schools and sports complexes.
After the earthquakes, a collapse on the roads occurred, electricity and water is carried out with failures, there is no access to a number of villages. Dozens of residential buildings and other buildings were destroyed, an unknown number of people remains under the rubble.
Strong rains, continuing on the NOO Peninsula, can provoke a landslide gathering. People are asked to stay away from the mountain slopes.
About the fate of more than 50 people in the disaster zone is not known.
In the search and rescue operations, the personnel of the Japanese self-defense forces (SDF) of 2 thousand people are involved, helicopters are involved, ships transport heavy equipment for clearing blockages to the port of Vazima.
Earlier, the Japanese management of geospatial information reported that the observation post in the city of Vazima in the Ishikawa Prefecture recorded the largest shift, the movement went horizontally about 1.3 meters to the west.
The former professor of seismology at the University of Tokyo, Hirata Naoshi, said that a collapse under the Nuto Peninsula could extend 150 kilometers, and seismicactivity will continue.
Japan is one of the ten most seismic hazardous countries of the world, most often suffering from the consequences of destructive earthquakes.
located in the Pacific “Fire Ring”, Japan in its entire history has experienced more than one deadly earthquake.
Pacific “Fire Ring” – an area around the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, in which most active volcanoes are located and many earthquakes occur.
Since 1995, about 70 earthquakes of magnitude 6 and above have occurred in Japan, as a result of which tens of thousands of people died.