Found between 200 and 300 bodies on Friday at the beach in the area of Sendai Miyagi northeastern Japan, after the passage of a tsunami (tsunami) caused by a very strong earthquake KD The region, reported the Jiji news agency reported. Police believe the bodies of people they Dahmthm tsunami wave height of ten meters in this region, according to Kyodo. The authorities estimate the number of homes affected by this disaster in 1200 a house. Announced that the Japanese media, killed 44 people in the outcome of an initial three hours after the occurrence of the earthquake force 8.9 degrees off the coast of north-east of the country on Friday, followed by a tsunami 10 meters highly. Announced Japan's Meteorological Agency said the quake is the strongest in the history of the archipelago. . The earthquake was felt strongly in Tokyo (though it lies at least 400 km from the epicenter) at 14.46 (05,46 GMT) at a distance of almost a hundred miles off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, followed by several aftershocks after three hours The media reported that a man was killed in the 67 after the collapse of a wall while an elderly woman spent under the rubble of the roof in the Tokyo area. And refer to the three deaths in the area of Ibaraki prefecture (north of the capital) after the collapse of the house. The official said that "serious damage so we need more time to gather Various elements. "She TV channels and news agencies to the downfall of many of the wounded and talked about the missing. It also reported that a ship carrying a hundred people washed the tsunami in the region of Miyagi prefecture (northeast Japan), without giving information about the fate of the passengers.
Intensify relief efforts The government spokesman Yukio Aidanu that the authorities make every effort to coordinate the ongoing relief operations "from the possibility that the earthquake caused severe damage." And sent warships to the Navy to the stricken region. The Defense Ministry announced that seven fighter jets and a helicopter belonging to ground forces took off on the spot to inspect the damage in the affected area.
Japan is located on the "Ring of Fire in the Pacific" and a number of volcanoes, and Tokyo is the geographical location of the most dangerous.
The Kyodo news agency said that the movement of air and ground transportation, trains stopped in a large part of the country. And halted the movement of trains "Shinkansen" immediately all over the north-east of the archipelago also closed highways in the Tokyo area minutes after the earthquake.
And the impact of the devaluation of the national currency to 83.30 yen to the American dollar compared with 82.81 before the earthquake.
Warning of the tsunami in all the Pacific The Center issued a tsunami monitoring in the United States tsunami warning covers almost the entire Pacific region including Australia and the South American continent. And issued a tsunami warning occurred Friday in the Russian Kuril Islands archipelago, according to a spokeswoman for the Emergency Situations Ministry in the region.
The warning includes all the islands of the archipelago, including the four islands in the south and disputed between Russia and Japan. She added that "the population is evacuated." The epicenter of the tsunami in the Pacific tsunami warning issued on Friday in Japan and Russia, the Philippines, Marian Islands, where the population is evacuated.
For its part, the Indonesian authorities issued a warning Friday tsunami occurred in the east of the country, especially Papua and the Moluccas. The control center tsunami in the Pacific declared a state of alarm on the island of Guam and Taiwan, the Philippines and the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Micronesia, Hawaii.
The outbreak of fire in a nuclear plant in northeastern Japan after earthquake A fire broke out inside a building housing the turbines in Aonagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi area north eastern Japan Friday, according to Kyodo news agency after the earthquake and tsunami.
But the authorities confirmed that he had not monitor any leakage of radiation in the plant or other nuclear sites in the affected areas in the hours after the earthquake and aftershocks that followed. And the Ministry of Industry announced that he was suspended a total of 11 nuclear reactors.
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