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Warn of another earthquake in Japan after strong aftershocks
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Warn of another earthquake in Japan after strong aftershocks
Published: March 13, 2011 10:21 AM | Comment 0 | Print | Send |
Warn of another earthquake in Japan after strong aftershocks
TOKYO (Notimex) .- Japan's Meteorological Agency warned that there is a high possibility that the country is shaken by another earthquake coming days more than 7.0 degrees, to the strong aftershocks are recorded and strong tremor this morning.
The director of the Department of Earthquake Forecasting Agency, Takashi Yokota, said after the mega-earthquake of 9.0 on the Richter scale that shook Japan on Friday and dozens of aftershocks that have occurred since then in addition to an earthquake of 6.2 degrees on Sunday Honshu, there is a high risk of a second earthquake.
"There is a 70.0 percent risk of occurrence of a replica of magnitude 7.0 or greater over the next three days, between 13 and 16 March morning," the official told the local press international Tokyo.
The official said that since the earthquake last Friday at 14:46 local time (05:46 GMT) on the northeast coast of Japan, have been incessant aftershocks between 2.0 and 5.3 degrees on the Richter scale.
A magnitude of 6.3 jolted this morning near 6:48 hours (15:48 GMT) the east coast of Honshu, with an epicenter at 36.3 degrees north latitude and 142.4 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 20 kilometers .
Yokota said that unfortunately the situation remains alarming, but added that the probability gradually decreases and then coming Wednesday, the probability of another earthquake drop to 50.0 percent.
Amid the grim forecasts, police Miyagi Prefecture, the most affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami two days ago, reported that more than 10 000 people were killed.
At present an assessment of the disaster, according to the Minister, Naoto Kan, caused the worst crisis since the Second World War, the local police chief, Naoto Takeuchi, estimated that killed at least half of the population, estimated at 22 000 inhabitants.
He said it is very likely that the larger number of deaths was registered in Miyagi, the coast nearest the epicenter of the mega earthquake, the strongest in more than 100 years.
"We have no choice but to deal with the situation on the premise that (the death toll), no doubt, could be numbered in the tens of thousands," said Takeuchi, in meeting with groups of local disasters, as a report by Kyodo news agency.
Until this afternoon, the Japanese government had confirmed the death of two thousand 16 people across the country, 963 only in Miyagi, while thousands are reported as missing, including children from an elementary school that was destroyed by the tsunami.
Given the situation facing thousands of families who lost their homes and the risk of an explosion in multi-storey nueclares, Naoto Prime Minister this morning ordered the dispatch of thousands of military items to the affected areas.
"I ask you make every effort to save the lives of many people as possible," said Khan, noted that yesterday three more than three thousand lives were saved by members of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
According to a report by the Japanese agency, more than eight thousand people remain isolated from the Saturday night in the cities of Onagawa, Ishinomaki and Amuro, a result of the tsunami, while large areas remain without electricity and phone service.