Japon : 161 morts dans le séisme, recherches perturbées par la neige

Buzz Plus

Selon un nouveau décompte annoncé lundi matin par les autorités locales, le puissant séisme qui a secoué le centre du Japon le 1er janvier a causé au moins 161 décès. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

Transcript

00:00 According to a new account announced on Monday morning by local authorities, the powerful

00:04 earthquake that shook the center of Japan on January 1 caused at least 161 deaths.

00:09 More than 2,000 people are still isolated as major snowfalls disturb

00:14 rescue operations.

00:15 The balance sheet of the powerful earthquake that shook the center of Japan on January 1

00:20 continues to worsen.

00:22 It has caused at least 161 deaths, 560 injured and 103 people are still missing, according

00:29 to a new account announced on Monday, January 8 by the Ishikawa department, the most affected

00:33 by the disaster.

00:34 The earthquake, followed by hundreds of replicas, caused thousands of landslides,

00:41 buildings and roads collapsed, and fires.

00:43 It also triggered a tsunami with waves more than one meter high on the coast

00:49 of the Noto Peninsula, a narrow strip of land a hundred kilometers from the

00:53 stretching in the sea of Japan.

00:55 Thousands of rescuers from all over Japan, who continue to explore the rubble in search

01:00 of bodies, must compose Monday with the snow that fell on the Noto Peninsula,

01:05 falling in layers of more than 10 centimeters per place and temperatures not exceeding

01:10 4 degrees Celsius.

01:11 New landslides due to precipitation are to be feared and the ice should still complicate

01:17 traffic on damaged roads by the earthquake, authorities have warned.

01:21 Rescue services are also continuing their efforts to reach more than 2,000 people

01:27 sometimes in critical conditions, isolated due to damaged roads by the earthquake,

01:31 and their firewood and equipment.

01:33 The Ishikawa department governor, Hiroshi Haase, emphasized to the NHK public television

01:39 channel that it was necessary to prevent deaths among the refugees from the disaster,

01:45 while some 29,000 people were sheltered on Sunday in 404 government shelters.

01:50 "Providing people with the minimum humanitarian aid so that they can survive is a challenge,"

01:56 he explained on the TV channel Asahi Zaisho Shikondo, at the head of a medical assistance team

02:01 dispatched on site, stating that in isolated areas, water and food supply

02:06 is still insufficient.

02:07 But because of the difficult access to the places where the inhabitants are sheltered, even

02:12 the shipment of rescue equipment from all over the country does not solve the problem,

02:17 commented this doctor.

02:18 A critical health situation in the shelters

02:21 According to the mayor of the city of Wajima, where many buildings were destroyed by

02:26 fires after the earthquake, the health situation is critical in the shelters.

02:31 The evacuation centers are crowded and infectious diseases such as the norovirus and COVID-19

02:36 are appearing, so Shigeru Sakaguchi was on guard on Sunday during a meeting on

02:41 helping the displaced, according to Asahi's daily.

02:44 Ishikawa's governor said that the authorities were preparing additional shelter places

02:50 with enough water, food and heating equipment, in particular by requesting

02:55 hotel rooms.

02:56 About 18,000 homes were also still without electricity, and 66,000 homes

03:02 did not have access to running water on Sundays.

03:04 This earthquake is the first to have killed more than 100 people in Japan since the

03:09 devastating earthquake in Kumamoto, southwest, which killed 276 people in 2016.

03:15 Located on the Pacific Fire Belt, Japan is one of the countries where earthquakes

03:21 are the most frequent.

03:22 With AFP.

Category

Transcript

Recommended