Eight days after the earthquake 9.0 Richter Scale and a tsunami that devastated three areas spent in the federal state level in Japan, namely, Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi. Thousands of lives have been broken in the accident.
Today, the Japanese police data on the number of disaster victims up to 18,000 people, far more than previous estimates of 10,000.
confirmed by the data, the highest number of 7,197 deaths, while others reported 10 905 officially listed as missing. So far around 09 000 time Saturday, March 19, 2011 has reached the number of people killed 18,102 people.
Hopes of finding survivors under the rubble in the face of reduced cold hit northeastern Japan - makes the snow-covered area of disaster. The discovery of a young man from the rubble eight days trapped between Kesennuma is a miracle.
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami hit much higher than 7.2 on the Richter scale echo of Kobe in 1995 has caused. At that time, 6,434 people were killed.
However, the police started to exchange numbers. As this is not the number of casualties occurred in the region affected by the tsunami on the coast and disappeared.
Previously, as indicated Kyodo News, the mayor of in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, said Wednesday that the number of citizens, about 10,000 people have lost. If today's news agency, NHK reported, about 10,000 people missing in the port city Minamisanriku in the same prefecture.
The earthquake and tsunami, Japan, Friday, 11 March 2011 rolled disaster was the deadliest since 1923 - the year they joined the Great Kanto earthquake disaster (the great Kanto earthquake) that killed 142,000 people.