Saturday, June 14, 2008

They are six or so seismic intensity in Iwate and Miyagi. -- Also three-person death, injury a large number, and missing person



Around 8:43 a.m. on the 14th, there is a strong earthquake which makes Iwate inland the focus, and a little less than six were recorded in six or so seismic intensity and prefecture-in-question Osaki in prefecture-in-question Oshu and Miyagi Kurihara.
The strong shake was observed in the large range of Kanto from the northeast, such as recording about five even in Yuzawa-shi, Akita and Miyagino-ku, Sendai-shi. Hokkaido and Hokuriku District also observed the shake. According to the conclusion of Yomiuri Shimbun, in at least three persons, death and seven persons went missing in this earthquake, and 114 persons were injured.
According to the Meteorological Agency, the depth of the focus is presumed to be about 8km, and magnitude is presumed to be 7-2. It passed urgent earthquake news flash almost simultaneously with generating noting that 同庁 had fear of a strong shake in the Tohoku district, and it took out urgent earthquake news flash twice by 1:00 p.m. noting that big aftershock was expected.
Takashi Yokota and the earthquake and tsunami observations division chief who gave an interview to the earthquake of this time [ 同庁 ] from "Iwate and the Miyagi inland earthquake", naming, and 10:30 a.m. "active activity may be carried out from now on also. It appealed for watch as damage expanding a landslide, collapse of a house, etc. by aftershock." According to 同庁, with a seismic intensity of one or more aftershock is 95 times at the noon present. The greatest aftershock will be generated at 9:20 a.m. By magnitude 5-6 on the Richter scale, a little less than five seismic intensity was observed.
This city Nakoso-cho which was fishing on the rocky beach on the seashore in Obamamachi, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima-ken, and office worker Michitaka Ishii (55) were involved in the mudslide, in the track, Mr. Yuzo Chiba (60) who was surprised at the earthquake and ran out on the road was trained, and he was killed in this earthquake in death and Ichinoseki-shi, Iwate Matsukawa, Higashiyama-cho.
Furthermore, death was confirmed for the worker who changed into the cardiopulmonary arrest state in response to falling stone in the Isawa (いさわ) dam construction site in Iwate Oshu, and Mr. Masahiko Chiba (48) in the hospital of the conveyance place for 50 minutes per o'clock p.m. on the 14th.
According to the task force of Miyagi Prefecture etc., one visitor is a serious condition of consciousness losing in Kurihara chestnut piece Numakura's city-owned hot spring facilities. this city Komanoyu Onsen -- visitors -- even if small -- four persons -- missing.
By the national highway No. 398 line of the said city Hanayama hot water Hamachi division, a landslide occurs at several places, and three persons have become missing in the construction site.
Moreover, according to the Iwate Prefectural Police, the sightseeing bus of 20-person riding had the entrance taken up by earth and sand, it becomes impossible to have moved near the 石淵 dam, and at least four persons got seriously injured. The driver who escaped by himself says that it slipped down under 50m from the road.
According to Natori-shi, Miyagi fire-fighting headquarters, the bus which was running on the bridge of the boundary of Natori-shi and Sendai-shi shakes greatly, and 25 persons (a passenger and others) are slight injuries. The wounded person has come out -- escalator carries out a quick stop in the shopping center in Natori, and a woman is injured.
According to the Iwate Prefectural Police, crash of the earth and sand in which a house is large-scale in collapse and this city Sugawa area was checked in the Gembi-cho, Ichinoseki-shi (げんび) town. The water pipe has exploded with two or more belt of prefecture-in-question Kanegasaki Town.
A total of 12 persons were conveyed by the hospital in the "municipal Tamari nursery school" in prefecture-in-question Oshu Esashi -- six kindergartners and one 保育士 which three glass of an entrance hall broke and were present in fall and the interior of a room are injured at the head etc., and are conveyed by the hospital. Moreover, in the city, the tank which stores kerosene for heating etc. at a total of 12 private houses says that the fall and the fire truck are mobilized.
They are six or so seismic intensity in Iwate and Miyagi. -- Also three-person death, injury a large number, and missing person

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