Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami - 2011 - A Requiem!

RESPONDING TO JAPAN'S CATASTROPHE:

Samaritan's Purse is helping provide physical and spiritual aid to survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami

Samaritan's Purse has airlifted 93 tons emergency aid to Japan to be distributed by our disaster relief team working in the devastated coastal area around Sendai, the closest major city to the epicenter of the deadly earthquake and tsunami. The supplies arrived Saturday, and are scheduled to be transported to the affected area by U.S. military C-17 cargo planes Sunday.

The loss of life and destruction caused by Friday's catastrophic earthquake in Japan grew Saturday, with the combined number of people who have died or remain unaccounted for expected to exceed 1,800, while an explosion occurred at a nuclear power plant injuring four workers.

But the number of victims could increase as authorities struggle to grasp the extent of the devastation in the face of continuing aftershocks and the large areas affected.

The death toll exceeded 687 as of Saturday midnight, a police tally showed, while a further 200 to 300 unidentified bodies were transferred to Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. About 650 people were noted as missing following the 2:46 p.m. quake with a magnitude of 9.1, the strongest ever recorded in Japan.

On top of that figure, Miyagi prefectural officials said Saturday night that there has been no contact with about 10,000 people in Minamisanriku, more than half of the town's population.

In Tokyo, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said about 3,000 people have been rescued since the quake jolted the area. But Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said, ''It is believed that more than 1,000 people have lost their lives.''

The number of evacuees reached some 300,000 in five prefectures, including Iwate and Fukushima, the National Police Agency said. The figure included about 80,000 people living near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, where one of the reactors partially melted, and the No. 2 plant, which lost its cooling functions.

The Defense Ministry was ready to mobilize 50,000 personnel for relief operations. The Ground Self-Defense Force dispatched a special unit to deal with accidents at the nuclear plants and to help the evacuation of nearby residents.

Fires in residential areas broke out, with Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture experiencing three large-scale fires including one stretching for up to 1 kilometer.

The number of destroyed buildings reached some 3,400, according to the fire agency. The welfare ministry said 181 welfare facilities, including nursing homes, have been damaged.

In Iwate Prefecture, most areas of the coastal city of Rikuzentakata were submerged and tsunami reached as high as the third floor of the city hall. The coastal area of Miyako and almost all of the town of Yamada, both in Iwate, were also submerged.

A municipal official of the town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture said, ''More than 90 percent of the houses in three coastal communities have been washed away by tsunami. Looking from the fourth floor of the town hall, I see no houses standing.''

Kan inspected the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant after flying there by helicopter. He told an executive of Tokyo Electric Power Co. to take measures to support nearby residents.

Around 5.57 million households had lost power, while more than 1 million households in 18 prefectures had had their water supply cut off.

Meanwhile, strong quakes, one with a magnitude of 6.7 at 3:59 a.m., rocked an inland area on the Sea of Japan coast northwest of Tokyo in the morning, hitting Nagano and Niigata prefectures.

Mountain View Internet giant Google activated its crisis response page after an 9.1-magnitude earthquake in Japan, which killed hundreds of people, sent a tsunami across the Pacific Ocean to California's coast, and disrupted an already fragile Japanese economy -- stalling production of such products as semiconductors, electronics and automobiles. Google had set up previous crisis response pages for disasters including last month's earthquake in New Zealand, the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and China, and the 2009 Lockheed fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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[fallschirmjager0000]

its amazing how organised and mentally tough the Japanese people are, if this had happened in any other nation there would be chaos and looting etc.

[w8n4rapture2day]

@fallschirmjager0000 - Indeed it is - May the One True God of the Bible bless them!!!

[w8n4rapture2day]

- It's so sad what's happening in Japan! I haven't made many documentary videos - usually just classical music videos. Perhaps more of the former are needed because BOTH Japanese Earthquake Videos have received so much attention. Have you seen them BOTH? Thanks! ILoveProfHowdy (dot) Com Our prayers to the Creator God of the Bible for the Great Japanese People are being sent by many!

[Ulquiorra77777]

It's was pretty good until the end than it was just showing random white people. There japanese!

[w8n4rapture2day]

@Ulquiorra77777 - Those random white people are sending a lot of aide & comfort to Japan...

[MrShanoz]

anyone notice the dead body in car at 58 seconds

how freaking sad

[w8n4rapture2day]

@MrShanoz - Not sure if that's what it is or not but many thousands did die! Very sad!

[JMproductions141]

@Annerny selfish! You are human the world IS your country.....

[alittlestranger28]

heartbreaking... =(

[lion21297]

friken cool

[landsell]

@w8n4rapture2day Yes, they have Haarped us into the New World Order.

[JMproductions141]

@Nightsparrow626 Thank you. I cant believe the borders some people build around "their country". They never take the time to step back, think outside those borders, and realize that its all just land. Our land that was stolen from us and labeled by rich people (ie: the queen, president, etc..) to put our mind in a box so that we may live in that box and make them more money. Hence the name sheeple..

[Ulquiorra77777]

@w8n4rapture2day Oh...couldn't tell.

[karuna558]

@MNMNMN1993  drop dead u morron