[JAPAN] Villagers Run For Their Lives as Tsunami Approaches in Iwaki, 11/03/2011

Casualties:

The National Police Agency has officially confirmed 11,532 deaths, 2,873 injured, and 16,441 people missing across eighteen prefectures. These numbers are expected to increase, with casualties estimated to reach tens of thousands.

Prefectural officials and the Kyodo News Agency, quoting local officials, said that 9,500 people from Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture—about a half of the town's population—were unaccounted for. NHK has reported that the death toll in Iwate Prefecture alone may reach 10,000.

Save the Children reports that as many as 100,000 children have been uprooted from their homes, some of whom were separated from their families because the earthquake occurred during the school day.

On 14 March, Kyodo News Agency reported that some 2,000 bodies were found on two shores in Miyagi Prefecture.

It was reported that four passenger trains containing an unknown number of passengers disappeared in a coastal area during the tsunami. One of the trains, on the Senseki Line, was found derailed in the morning; all passengers were rescued by a police helicopter. Der Spiegel later reported that five missing trains in Miyagi Prefecture had been found with all passengers safe, although this information could not be confirmed locally.

By 9:30 UTC on 11 March, Google Person Finder, which was previously used in the Haitian, Chilean, and Christchurch, New Zealand earthquakes, was collecting information about survivors and their locations. The Next of Kin Registry (NOKR) is assisting the Japanese government in locating next of kin for those missing or deceased.

Japanese funerals are normally elaborate Buddhist ceremonies, and 99.9% of bodies are cremated; burials are often banned by law. The thousands of bodies, however, exceed the capacity of available crematoriums and morgues, many of them damaged, and there are shortages of both kerosene—each cremation requires 50 liters—and dry ice for preservation. The single crematorium in Higashimatsushima, for example, can only handle four bodies a day, although hundreds have been found there and hundreds of people are still missing. Governments and the military have thus been forced to bury many bodies in hastily dug mass graves with rudimentary or no rites, although relatives of the deceased have been promised that cremation will occur later.

The tsunami is reported to have caused several deaths outside of Japan. One man was killed in Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia after being swept out to sea. At the mouth of the Klamath River, south of Crescent City, California, a 25-year-old man who is said to have been attempting to photograph the oncoming tsunami was swept out to sea and confirmed dead.




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[heriticflames]

@steveLLW I don't know if your a retard this guy is running from his life who cares about the camera work what about the people dying you selfish motherfucker

[SteveLLW]

I don't know which is more tragic; the tsunami, or the terrible camera work.

[achoiusa]

I can't believe some people were just walking and looking back... I would run like hell...

[callmeshane303]

Yeah... one of those jolly, "Legs - do your stuff!" moments.

[KFDraven]

I don't believe anyone should "Like" this one, just for courtesy.

[1939dannyboy]

old lady in red, white coat and red handbag and im not 100% but theres someone dressed in mostly all black that you can see but at the bottom but manages to get farther up or someone else is dressed in mostly black the builds seem different in a few stills...either way death and destruction was heading their way if they survived or not...sad shit

[1939dannyboy]

My count is 7 on the ground below the camera 3 on hill close to him the rest in parking lot....yes you see people get sucked in...note two women one in red and one wearing the white coat and holding red handbag...they both have their back to the water....one turns around to see bus and more water and camera shakes while he gets higher and just manages to pan back and you can see the 3 people (from what i can tell) gone....rest is up to logical imagination..death..also explains him going nuts..

[Sambucca]

@RunningFromGrizzlies

All I know is "hyaku" which means hurry or quickly.

[whitemaremma]

@hundredand Yes - if you keep left clicking the clip you get a couple of stills that show them all on what looks like a winding pathway up the hill. The couple are last but they are definitely there. So lucky.