Wajima devastation as death toll from quakes that rattled Japan's western coastline reaches 100

Описание: (6 Jan 2024)
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Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture - 6 January 2024
1. Various of destruction caused by earthquakes
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The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble.

Footage captured by the Associated Press on Saturday in Wajima, within the hardest-hit region of Ishikawa Prefecture, showed staggering levels of destruction, with streets reduced to rubble as residents looked on.

Some survivors who had clung to life for days were freed from collapsed homes.

A man was pulled out 72 hours after a series of powerful quakes started rattling Japan’s western coast.

The number of missing was lowered to 211 as of Saturday, after it shot up two days ago.

The Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo found that the sandy coastline in western Japan shifted by up to 250 meters (820 feet) seaward in some places.

AP Video shot by Ayaka McGill

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