After the earthquake and tsunami that devastated three provincial-level regions in Japan, namely: Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate.Thousands of lives are torn in the accident.
Today, the Japanese police released the data on the number of disaster victims as much as 18,000 people, far larger than previous estimates of 10,000 inhabitants.
According to the data, as many as 7197 people confirmed dead, while another 10,905 officially listed as missing. So, until around 09,000 local time, Saturday, March 19, 2011, the death toll reached 18,102 people.
Hope of finding survivors among the debris shrink given the current cold weather hit northeastern Japan - making the area covered with snow disaster. The discovery of a young man trapped 8 days in between the rubble in Kesennuma, is a miracle.
The number of casualties caused by the earthquake and tsunami disaster far greater than the echo of 7.2 on the Richter scale which menggunjang Kobe in 1995. At that time, 6434 people were killed.
However, police believed to have pocketed the numbers will change more. Because, that's not including the number of casualties have been reported missing in the region affected by the tsunami along the coast.
Previously, as disclosed Kyodo News, the mayor of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture on Wednesday reported that the number of citizens who lost an estimated 10,000 people. While today, the NHK news agency reported, about 10,000 people still missing in the port city of Minamisanriku in the same prefecture.
The earthquake and tsunami that rolled Japan, Friday, March 11, 2011 was the deadliest disaster since 1923 - the year it happened the Great Kanto Earthquake disaster (the Great Kanto Earthquake), which killed 142,000 people. (The Age)
Sources: VIVAnews.com (Elin Yunita Kristant)
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