[JAPAN] Man Runs For His Life as Tsunami Comes in, 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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[yoshua4]

car: HELP ME I IOVE YOU!

guy: I LOVE U TOO!!!

[christophedetiege]

@ElinaProductions they like the capturing of the video, not what happened in the video ;-)

[Knowers100]

4:25 What the heck?

[Knowers100]

3:16 Mini tsunami!

[ElinaProductions]

11 Likes? What are up with you people! You guys are stupid! I feel heartbroken and If I were you I would get my ass over there and help those poor people that got injured & death!

[ZofiaJW]

Why did they wait so long to run?! I guss you just can't belive the situation unless you feel water in your shoes.

[dangermous1968]

@kisakimama wow ..that's terrible...I cant imagine what it must have been like to go through soo many dangerous situations in such a short time...without any notice or warnings...what a nightmare..

and then there are those that had to witness their loved ones being swept away, or those that had no idea where their family is...that is hard to imagine...it must have been horrible.

[kisakimama]

@dangermous1968 I'm sorry. I meant to say they had a warning 5 to 10 minute before the tsunami hit. A very short notice. But it is expected from an earthquake they predict 2 days, but tsunami are are unpredictable, so they knew they might have one, just not when. The big tsunami hit after an hour after the quake, but there was water already going over the shoreline 10 minutes after the quake.

[kisakimama]

@dangermous1968 Sorry I meant to say they did have a warning, like 5-10 minute before it hit. Short notice. But the government knew about the earthquake 2 days before and it was expected that a tsunami will come, just don't know exactly when. But it was a short notice, majority of people did not know I believe.

[dangermous1968]

@kisakimama how long was it between the quake and the tsunami