Monday, March 21, 2011

Read and weep

A family photograph is half buried in the sand and mud in Rikuzentakata, in Iwate prefecture, northeast Japan March 13, 2011. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won

http://blogs.reuters.com/gregg-easterbrook/2011/03/15/japans-real-disaster/

Already the tsunami is old news. The nuclear reactor situation (which actually is tsunami news) is ongoing, the situation at least has not worsened for the last couple days, with some hopeful signs. Libya has been bombed.

It's the first day of spring, but it is still winter in northern Japan. Below is the latest bulletin from IOC/UNESCO summarizing the situation town by town.

I don't need iodine tablets, I need "heart" medicine.


IOC/UNESCO Bulletin No. 6

As of 21 March 2011

(Including summary of Bulletin No. 1 – 5)

Casualties by the Earthquake and Tsunami

As of 09:00z 21 Mar 2011

The National Police Agency

  • Dead: 8,649
  • Missing: 13,261
  • Road destruction: 1,703
  • Bridge destruction: 51
  • Railway destruction: 15

Number of Evacuees at each Prefecture;

· Aomori: 367

· Iwate: 45,468

· Miyagi: 131,554; including from Fukushima

· Yamagata: 3,858; including from Miyagi and Fukushima

· Fukushima: 131,665

· Tokyo: 546; From Miyagi and Fukushima

· Ibaragi: 3,928; including from Fukushima

· Tochigi: 3,0688; including from Fukushima

· Gunma: 2,983; including from Fukushima and Miyagi

· Saitama: 3,729; under survey

· Chiba: 1,220; including from Fukushima and Miyagi

· Kanagawa: 252; from Fukushima

· Niigata: 7,849; from Fukushima

· Yamanashi: 457; from Fukushima and Miyagi

· Nagano: 193; from Fukushima

· Shizuoka 163; from Fukushima

As of 05:00Z 21 March 2011

The Japanese Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA)

  1. Dead: 8,019 persons
  2. Missing: 10,512 persons
  3. Injured: 2,928 persons
  4. Fires: 326 events (325 fires were already extinguished)
  5. Number of evacuees: 312,792

(Note: Numbers are based on the report from each Prefecture)

C: City, T: Town, V: Village

Local G: Information is taken from web of each municipality

Prefecture

City, Town, Village & Population

dead

missing

Note: Tsunami related disaster

(Whole area / inundation area in km²)

Hokkaido

Hakodate C

294,264

1


Local G

  • One man dead by drowning
  • 128 houses flooded
  • 5 fishing boats; sinking
  • Flood area; Benten, Suehiro, Toyokawa, Oote, Wakamatsu, Kaigan, Minato-Chou

Aomori

Hachinohe C

241,308

1

1

305 / 2

(FDMA)

  • Wide-area are inundated


Misawa C

42,226

2


Local G

  • 30 houses: flood
  • Evacuation shelter was closed 15 March


Hashikami T



94 / 0.5

Iwate




  • JR Train stop: Tohoku-Akita shinkansen, Ofunato, Kitagami, Kamaishi, Yamada lines etc ( Recovering; no prospect)


Miyako C

59,118

287

1,700

1,260 / 9

(FDMA)

  • Severe tsunami damages
  • More than 10 villages are completely destroyed


Ofunato C

40,801

222

191

323 / 6

(FDMA)

  • More than 300 houses flow out
  • Many houses are flooded
  • 3,498 houses are completely destroyed
  • Especially Suesaki and Hosoura regions are severely damaged.
  • No communication system


Kuji C

36,651

3

2

623 / 4

Local G

  • 145 houses are destroyed
  • 572 boats; damaged


Rikuzen-Takata C

23,243

741

1,734

232 / 9

(FDMA)

  • Extremely severe damages
  • Widely inundation
  • No communication system
  • 3,600 houses are damaged


Kamaishi C

39,294

495

580

441 / 7

(FDMA)

  • Coast-Guard building inundated up to 2nd floor
  • Fire Office building is flooded
  • No communication system


Otsuchi T

15,293

418

732

201 / 4

Ogasawara; Iwate U. (14 Mar)

  • Whole town is severely damaged
  • No communication system


Yamada T

18,745

369

Un-known

263 / 4

  • No communication system


Iwaizumi T

10,693

5

2

993 / 1

  • No communication system
  • 40 houses are flooded


Tanohata V

3,836

13

27

(FDMA)

  • 249 houses flow out
  • 148 houses are destroyed
  • No communication system


Fudai V

3,094


5

70 / 0.5

(FDMA)

  • Ootanabe and Horiuchi fishing ports are severely damaged.


Noda V

4,639

31

20

81 / 2

  • Tsunami flow over the village government building
  • Severe damage in the central village
  • 400 houses in the Motomura District are severely damaged
  • No communication system


Hirono T

17,961



303 / 1

Local G

  • No dead
  • 3 houses; flooded
  • 98 fishing boats: flow out or damaged
  • JR train bridge collapsed

Miyagi

Sendai C

1,046,902

54

9

(FDMA)

  • 295 bodies are recovered (Not included in this table yet)
  • 296,323 houses: power cut as of 17 March


Sendai-Miyagino



58 / 20


Sendai - Wakabayashi



48 / 29


Sendai- Taihaku



228 / 3


Ishinomaki C

160,336

1,826

1,472

556 / 40

(FDMA)

  • Wide areas are inundated. Difficult for rescue work


Shiogama C

56,325

13

40

18 / 5

Local G


Kesennuma C

73,239

443

529

333 / 15

(FDMA)

  • Many people are isolated due to inundation of wide area


Natori C

73,576

493

Under survey

100 / 27

(FDMA)

  • Many areas are inundated


Tagajo C

62,881

82

Under survey

20 / 6


Iwanuma C

43,921

120

Under survey

61 / 29


Higashi-Matsushima C

42,859

577

429

102 / 36


Watari T

34,773

188

200

73 / 35

Local G


Yamamoto T

16,695

362

465

64 / 24

Local G

  • Evacuation Order is issued at 05:52 from local G.
  • Major tsunami attacking around 06:30 Z


Matsushima T

16,193

1

31

54 / 2


Shichigahama T

20,377

44

49

13 / 6

Local G

  • Tsunami height was more than 10 m
  • All facilities along coast were completely destroyed
  • No communication system


Rifu T

9,768

1

0

45 / 0.5

  • Tsunami sediment in Hamada and Suga district is about 3 cm thicknesses.


Onagawa T

9,965

181

498

(FDMA)

  • About 630 people need to be rescued
  • Many areas are inundated


Minami-Sanriku T

17,382

398

Under survey

164 / 7

(FDMA)

  • Many areas are inundated

Fukushima

Iwaki C

345,310

201

4

Local G

  • Tsunami severely damaged area; from Kunohama to Onahama district
  • Some areas of above are completely destroyed


Souma C

37,919

105


198 / 29

(FDMA)

  • Severe tsunami damages


Minami-Souma C

70,971

214

1,260

399 / 27


Hirono T

5,383

2

1



Naraha T

7,847

3

10



Tomioka T

15,755

2

8



Okuma T

11,264

1

8



Futaba T

6,917

1

14



Namie T

20,686


270



Shinchi T

8,306

61

107

46 / 11

Ibaragi

Kita-Ibaragi C

5

1

Local G

  • Some houses; flooded


Hitachi C

0

0

Local G

  • 35 houses: completely destroyed by tsunami, and 50 houses: partially destroyed, 556 houses; inundation
  • Tsunami damages at Kawajiri, Aise, Kawarako and Kujihama Ports.


Oarai T

18,188

1


Local G

  • About 2,000 houses; flooded


Kamisu C



Local G

  • 5 houses flooded
  • 2 vessels: capsizal
  • 1 vessel: stranding
  • 12 boats: sinking
  • 5 boats: stranding on shore

Chiba

Choshi C

0

0

Local G

  • 32 houses flooded


Asahi C

12

3

Local G

  • 112 houses flooded
  • 254 houses were completely destroyed by tsunami
  • 537 houses were partially destroyed by tsunami
  • 85 houses were completely destroyed by earthquake
  • 772 houses were partially destroyed by earthquake


Sousa C



Local G

  • 18 houses flooded


Yokoshiba-Hikari T



Local G

  • 14 houses flooded
  • Boats are damaged
  • Port facility is damaged


Sanbu C

1


Local G

  • 243 houses flooded


Kujyukuri T



Local G

  • 161 houses flooded


Oami-Shirasato T



Local G

  • No tsynami damage


Shirako T





Chousei V





Ichinomiya C

0

0

Local G

  • 58 houses flooded; Kaigan and Omura District
  • Farm: 3 ha inundated


Isumi C



Local G

  • 19 houses flooded


Onjyuku T





Katsuura C





Kamogawa C





Minami-Bousou C





Tateyama C





Chiba C



Local G

  • 2 houses flooded

Shizuoka

Shimoda C

25,549



Local G

  • 13 houses; flooded

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