re: #129 ggt

By the way here is my source, I wanted to make sure I had it right to be sure not to sound like a alarmist.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

TOKYO: The toll, now being placed at 1,300 to 1,700, could rise dramatically. Around 10,000 people are unaccounted for in Minamisanriku alone — that’s more than half the port town’s population of 17,000 — in the worst-hit Miyagi prefecture. Near the heart of the quake zone in Sendai, 200 to 300 bodies were found washed up on local beaches.

As Japan was filled with scenes of desperation, officials said several districts in an area near Sendai’s airport were annihilated, raising fears that the toll could multiply as the missing begin to be counted as dead. Four passenger trains had not been accounted for as of Saturday night.

There have been more than 160 aftershocks in the first 24 hours — 141 of them measuring 5-magnitude or more on the Richter scale, which are actually major earthquakes in their own right.

I did get that mixed up with the mudslide in this video.

cnn.com
those 10,000 missing might not of been a result of a landslide but the 13 in this video are.