Category: Earthquake

Local authorities are speeding up efforts to move evacuees of the powerful earthquake that rocked Ishikawa Prefecture and other central Japan areas on New Year’s Day to hotels and other accommodations after challenging conditions at evacuation centers are believed to have resulted in multiple deaths.

The death toll from the quake rose to 206 on Wednesday, according to the authorities, with the figure including eight people who were not directly killed by the magnitude-7.6 temblor but are believed to have died due to a deterioration in their health conditions, in some cases associated with the stress of being evacuated.

The death toll in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, from Monday’s powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake has risen to 128, prefectural officials said Sunday.

The New Year’s Day earthquake has left 195 people unaccounted for in the prefecture, the officials said.

The death toll in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa from Monday’s powerful earthquake has risen to 126, prefectural officials said Saturday.

The magnitude-7.6 New Year’s Day quake has left 210 people unaccounted for in the prefecture, the officials said.