Séismes au Japon : recherche de survivants, bilan tragique

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Les nombreux et puissants séismes qui ont secoué le centre du Japon depuis lundi, dont un d'une magnitude supérieure à 7, ont entraîné de "nombreuses victimes" – 48, selon le dernier bilan – ainsi que des dégâts matériels importants, a déclaré mardi le Premier ministre japonais, Fumio Kishida. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 The many and powerful earthquakes that have shaken the center of Japan since Monday,

00:04 one of which of a magnitude greater than 7, have led to many victims.

00:07 48, according to the latest report, as well as significant material damage,

00:11 said Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday.

00:15 A race against time is scheduled for Tuesday in Japan to find survivors after an earthquake

00:20 that devastated the Noto Peninsula on Monday, in the center of the country,

00:24 killing 48 according to a new provisional report.

00:27 The total number of deaths reached 48, said the AFP,

00:30 head of the Ishikawa department, epicenter of the disaster.

00:35 A previous provisional report reported 30 deaths.

00:39 "It was such a powerful earthquake," said the AFP Tsuguma Zamihara, 73,

00:44 "in line with hundreds of other Chika residents,

00:47 a small town on the Noto Peninsula, to retrieve drinking water tanks from the town hall.

00:53 What a terrible way to start the year," he added.

00:56 02.09.

00:58 Surveying Monday at 4.10 p.m., 7.10 p.m. GMT,

01:01 the main earthquake among more than 150 significant shakes felt until Tuesday morning

01:06 was recorded at a magnitude of 7.5 according to the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS)

01:12 and 7.6 according to the Japanese meteorological agency (JIMA).

01:16 Tsunami of low magnitude

01:18 This earthquake, felt up to Tokyo, 320 km away from the Noto bird flight,

01:24 also caused massive material damage and a tsunami on Monday on the coast of the Sea of Japan,

01:28 which ultimately remained of low magnitude,

01:31 with waves of 1.2 meters high maximum being measured.

01:35 The tsunami risk level, which had initially triggered a rare maximum alert from the JIMA,

01:40 was then retrograded and was definitively raised Tuesday at 10 a.m., 1 GMT, by this same agency.

01:46 The extent of the destruction was revealed Tuesday with the sunrise,

01:50 everywhere, old houses and collapsed buildings, crevassed roads,

01:54 fishing boats that had capsized or had failed,

01:56 and persistent fires in the middle of smoking ruins.

02:00 "The earthquakes have caused many victims and significant material damage,"

02:03 said Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday.

02:07 "We must take a race against the clock to save lives," he added.

02:12 Firefighters overflowing in Wajima

02:14 A large fire in particular destroyed part of the city center of Wajima,

02:18 a small historical port in the north of the Noto Peninsula

02:21 known for its lake-based craft products.

02:24 A six-story commercial building also collapsed due to the earthquake.

02:29 "Hold on!"

02:30 "Hold on!"

02:31 shouted firefighters as a access road was being built

02:33 into the rubble using an electric saw and rampant,

02:35 according to images from Japanese television filmed in Wajima.

02:39 "The firefighters are overwhelmed,"

02:41 said a Wajima emergency services official on Tuesday.

02:45 "We are dealing with several fires

02:47 and the number of emergency calls and damage reports continues to increase," he said.

02:53 More than 32,000 homes remain without electricity on Tuesday

02:55 and many agglomerations in Ishikawa have no access to drinking water.

03:00 More than 60,000 inhabitants had received evacuation orders on Monday,

03:04 according to the National Fire and Natural Disaster Management Agency.

03:08 A thousand Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers, FJA,

03:12 as well as more than 2,000 firefighters and some 630 police officers

03:15 arrived as reinforcements in the devastated areas,

03:18 said Fumio Kishida on Tuesday.

03:20 The Prime Minister also announced Monday

03:22 the shipment of first-need goods such as drinking water,

03:24 food, blankets, gas or fuel, by plane or boat.

03:30 Faced with the disaster,

03:32 the traditional public greetings of the New Year

03:34 by the Emperor of Japan Naruto and his family,

03:36 who were due to stay in Tokyo on Tuesday, were canceled.

03:40 The memory of Fukushima

03:42 Several damaged highways have been closed to traffic

03:45 and high-speed train traffic, Shinkansen,

03:48 between Tokyo and Ishikawa, interrupted since Monday,

03:51 was due to resume on Tuesday afternoon.

03:54 Located on the Pacific's belt of fire,

03:56 Japan is one of the countries where earthquakes are the most frequent in the world.

04:00 The archipelago is therefore applying extremely strict construction standards,

04:04 so that modern buildings generally resist powerful earthquakes,

04:07 but old houses much less.

04:10 Japan is haunted by the memory of the terrible 9.0 magnitude earthquake

04:14 followed by a giant tsunami in March 2011 on the country's northeast coast,

04:17 a disaster that killed some 20,000 people and disappeared.

04:21 This disaster had also led to the Fukushima nuclear accident,

04:24 the worst since that of Chernobyl in 1986.

04:28 No anomalies were detected in the country's nuclear power plants,

04:32 assured the Japanese Nuclear Safety Authority (NRA) on Monday.

04:36 With AFP.

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