{"id":301,"date":"2011-03-11T19:48:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T01:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-03-11T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T01:48:56","slug":"1000-feared-dead-in-japan-quake-tsunami-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/1000-feared-dead-in-japan-quake-tsunami-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000 feared dead in Japan quake-tsunami disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORE than 1,000 people were feared dead after a monster tsunami unleashed by a massive quake which wreaked destruction across north-east Japan and triggered an emergency at a nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Saturday that residents living within 10km of the plant must evacuate amid fears of a slight radiation leak, before stepping onto a helicopter to head for the area. <\/p>\n<p>The atomic emergency came as the country struggled to assess the full extent of the devastation wrought by the massive tsunami triggered by the strongest quake ever recorded in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The towering wall of water generated by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake &#8211; the seventh biggest in history &#8211; pulverised the north-eastern city of Sendai, where police Friday reportedly said that 200-300 bodies had been found on the coast. Kyodo News said the final death toll was likely to pass 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>The 10m wave of black water sent shipping containers, cars and debris crashing through the streets of Sendai and across open farmland, while a tidal wave of debris-littered mud destroyed everything in its path. At least 384 people were killed in the earthquake and subsequent tsunamis, police and press reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Police Agency said 184 people had been confirmed dead and 707 missing, with 947 injured in the tremor, and a spokesman said this did not include the bodies reportedly found on the Sendai coast. The tsunami left Rikuzen Takata, a coastal city of some 23,000 people, &#8216;almost in shambles,&#8217; the national Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORE than 1,000 people were feared dead after a monster tsunami unleashed by a massive quake which wreaked destruction across north-east Japan and triggered an emergency at a nuclear power plant. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Saturday that residents living within 10km of the plant must evacuate amid fears of a slight radiation leak, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}