The relief work of the Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan has entered its fourth day, and as time goes by, more and more of the real situation in the earthquake area has been revealed, and the damage caused by this earthquake is far beyond our imagination, and many people in the earthquake area have used the word "destruction" to describe the earthquake they have experienced in interviews!
(Wajima City before and after the earthquake)
According to Japanese media statistics, as of the morning of January 5, the number of people killed in the earthquake has risen to 92, 242 people are missing (more than 100 people may have been buried alive by mudslides), 464 people are injured, and the number of people living in emergency shelters is tens of thousands!
(Wajima City Landslide)
The hardest-hit area in Japan is Wajima City in Ishikawa Prefecture. According to the mayor of Wajima City, "As of noon today, more than 100 local residents were still crushed under the collapsed buildings, but the rescue efforts are difficult due to broken roads in the city and landslides."
Out of desperation, the mayor could only reluctantly announce: "Priority is given to rescuing places where voices come out."
And the people in the shelters also lived a life of hunger and cold.
After the earthquake, Wajima City has been living without water and electricity. It wasn't until three days later that the shelter finally welcomed its first "water truck". Due to the extreme scarcity of water, each evacuee can only receive a bottle of drinking water of up to 2 litres.
When a reporter asked, "How are you feeling right now?"
An old man said, "Great, I finally have water, I will cherish it, and drink it in small sips......"
According to the evacuees, there is no food for everyone now, and they only ate a curry rice that was distributed at noon yesterday, and the staff told everyone that "there will be no food to distribute after that......
However, even in such a situation of scarcity of materials, the local people still provided maximum assistance to Chinese tourists who were stranded on the island and did not know the place and did not know the Japanese language.
On the 4th, a Chinese tourist told his experience of a magnitude 7 earthquake in Japan on the Internet: in the 72 hours of disappearance, I experienced rebirth, everything was like a dream, January 1, 2024 may become a memory that I will never forget in my life, we were trapped in Wajima City in the Noto earthquake by a sudden earthquake, aftershocks every three or four minutes and tsunami warnings that kept reminding, we spent a cold and long night on the sidecar of the deserted coastline, and in desperation, the headlights of a small truck came out of the tunnel, and we were saved by fishermen and taken to the village assembly house, which provided us with meals for heating and a place to rest for freeI will always remember that there is a place called Guangpu Fishing Port, where there is a group of simple and kind villagers, although they have never seen foreigners in their lives, but they have to prepare dry food for us in the case of hospitality and lack of materials, and all the villagers came to the door to see us off when they were ready to leave, waving goodbye with tears, hoping that the disaster would also treat them well......
The "Gwangpo Fishing Port" that the tourist referred to is the place we mentioned earlier where more than 100 people are still buried under the collapsed buildings.
There is a shortage of water and food, but the only thing that is not lacking is the great love of helping others despite the fact that I am in the face of adversity......