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Two other workers, Kazuhiko Kokubo, 24, and Yoshiki Terashima, 21, were killed by the tsunami while conducting emergency repairs immediately after the quake. Their bodies were found on 30 March. [12] The workers and volunteers were assigned the mission of stabilizing the reactors.
Entire towns were destroyed in tsunami-hit areas in Japan, including 9,500 missing in Minamisanriku; [153] one thousand bodies had been recovered in the town by 14 March 2011. [154] While the tsunami was able to surmount sea walls and floodgates in many areas along the coastline of the Tohoku region, Fudai, Iwate, was spared destruction due to ...
On 27 March 2011, Japan's National Police Agency reported that 14 of its officers had died in the line of duty in the disaster and a further 16 were missing. [69] The government in Japan committed to cleaning up the damage from the disaster, an effort forecast to cost a total of ¥1 trillion (US$8 billion). [70]
Three bodies found dumped in a well with gunshot wounds to the head have been confirmed as missing tourists, including a US citizen, Mexican authorities said Sunday.
This is an alphabetically sorted list of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Cities and towns listed here reported at least US$ 100,000 in damage or at least one death.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The three dead bodies found in Mexico's Baja California state are highly likely to be the American and two Australian tourists who went missing last week, a senior official ...
Mexican officials say three bodies are found in the Baja California area where two Australian brothers and their American friend went missing while on a surf trip.
Costliest natural disaster in recorded world history, estimated at up to $235 billion by the World Bank. 18,297 dead, 2,533 missing and 6,157 injured confirmed by Japanese National Police Agency on 8 March 2019. 15,000 + Great Unzen disaster: Eruption, Earthquake, and Tsunami 21 May 1792: Mount Unzen, Kyūshū