Japan continues to eliminate the consequences of the New Year’s earthquake that occurred in the Noto Peninsula area.
At the same time, the number of victims continues to rise. The day before it was reported about 110, and according to updated data, 128 people have already become victims of the disaster.
The earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan killed 128 people, MIA reports.
Tremors were recorded in the Noto Peninsula area on January 1.
As a result, 560 local residents were injured, and the fate of more than 220 people remains unknown.
According to seismologists, a series of tremors were recorded, the strongest of which was a magnitude 7.6.
As a result, there was a threat of a tsunami. A warning was issued along the entire west coast of the country.
They are already saying that this was the strongest tsunami in the last 12 years. In some places the wave height reached 4.2 meters.
There are 5,400 self-defense forces personnel at the scene.
During the clearance of rubble in the city of Suzu, 124 hours after the disaster, a 90-year-old woman was found and rescued.
According to experts, the disaster destroyed over 1,370 houses, 66 thousand households were left without water and more than 23.9 without electricity.
Earlier it was reported that in Uralsk in a cafe.
