At least 48 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake hit Japan on New Year’s Day
Rescue teams this morning, have started finding a way to reach isolated areas where buildings had been toppled, roads wrecked and power cut to tens of thousands of homes.
The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck on Monday afternoon, prompting residents in some coastal areas to flee to higher ground as tsunami waves hit Japan’s west coast, sweeping some cars and houses into the sea.
A 3,000-strong rescue crew of army personnel, firefighters and police officers from across the country have been sent to the quake site on the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture.
Many rail services and flights into the area have been suspended. Noto’s airport closed due to damage to its runway, terminal and access roads, with 500 people stranded inside vehicles in its parking lot, public broadcaster NHK reported.
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