9,500 people of Minamisanriku are unaccounted for since the massive quake and tsunami slammed the coast of Japan yesterday.

Minamisanriku is north of the city of Sendai on the eastern coast of Japan.

Kyodo News reported:

About 9,500 people are unaccounted for in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture following Friday’s powerful earthquake, prefectural officials said Saturday.

The figure is more than half of the population of about 17,000 in the town on the Pacific coast, they said.

 

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  1. #1 March 12, 2011 at 7:58 am

    wheezer commented:

    Oh my goodness…

  2. #2 March 12, 2011 at 8:11 am

    Somewhat Reasonable Voice commented:

    I fear the reports that will come in the next few days. Devastating. This is the worst in my memory.

  3. #3 March 12, 2011 at 8:21 am

    a former democrat commented:

    These poor people, the entire country will take decades to recover.

  4. #4 March 12, 2011 at 8:25 am

    Ginger commented:

    Oh, my heart is breaking for the people of Japan.

  5. #5 March 12, 2011 at 8:29 am

    mr wah commented:

    please let this be a communication issue and that all are safe in the hills awaiting rescue and pickup.

  6. #6 March 12, 2011 at 8:39 am

    Cal Rifkin commented:

    Let’s be hopeful that help can get there ASAP.

  7. #7 March 12, 2011 at 8:42 am

    bear commented:

    Just google-earthed that section of the coast….5-16 feet elevation for miles up the estuaries….no protection for the fishing fleets, pearl-oyster, fish-farming areas….lots of small villages. The San Juan Bautista ship is probably gone. Expect the worst. So sad.

  8. #8 March 12, 2011 at 8:47 am

    Jim commented:

    #3, Japan is not Haiti, they will get to work and be back to normal in no time.

  9. #9 March 12, 2011 at 8:56 am

    Barbara commented:

    Heartbreaking to see those videos. I agree with #8: in spite of all the horror and ruin, the Japanese will have the place rebuilt, better, more quickly than we think. And for Goodness Sake, with this genuine disaster and human suffering, maybe that a$$, Charlie Sheen will grow up or at least shut up!!!

  10. #10 March 12, 2011 at 9:07 am

    LL commented:

    That’s shocking and tragic.

  11. #11 March 12, 2011 at 9:14 am

    Andreas K. commented:

    Those can be anywhere. I refuse to believe they’re all dead. Communcation up there is still out. Cell phones are screwed, since there’s no power and many masts have gone. Landlines may work, but there’s no power for the additional hardware. The only thing that essentially works are the radios used by the relief units.

    About 50,000 troops are now deployed.

    There is more and more footage popping up now from different towns where camera teams were on the ground following the quake. And going by those recordings, the tsunami evacuations most likely saved thousands of lives.

  12. #12 March 12, 2011 at 9:26 am

    USMC Thomas commented:

    This should illustrate to those global warming fool’s the idiocy and conceit to think they can manipulate mother nature. Even a country like Japan, which constructed dwellings aware of earthquake dangers, was helpless.

  13. #14 March 12, 2011 at 10:30 am

    Sally commented:

    -Odd that so many tragedies occur related to 11.. even the passage of key legislation/regulation

    They need all of our prayers. God bless every person affected by this horror

  14. #15 March 12, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    too overwhelmingly horrific for words.. :-(

    ==

  15. #17 March 13, 2011 at 9:34 am

    Mina commented:

    My family are in Tokyo, Japan. They are doing okay. I can’t stop crying watching TV where I used to live and vacationing the area. Sendai is very beautiful city and it is gone forever. They have only 1 minute to run before Tsunami hit the area. Just only 1 minute to live…

    My mom has’t slept for 3 days because she is afraid of aftershocks. She went to store to get some bread, eggs, and milk yesterday. There was no food in the store. I said to her “the help is in your way mom!”. What else I can say to her now. I told her how much I love her.

    Please tell your family how much you love them today for me. You never know when you have chance to say it. People from Sendai did not have a chance to say it. They had only 1 minute.

  16. #18 March 14, 2011 at 12:24 am

    anje commented:

    I was really terrified… my family and I will always include you all in our prayers that you will have enough strength to bear all the pain you are having right now…
    to all who were affected by earthquake and tsunami just put your full trust in God and He will settle everything

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