The death toll from the earthquake that struck central Japan yesterday has risen to at least 30 dead and 14 seriously injured.
"Very significant damage, numerous casualties, collapsed buildings and fires have been confirmed," Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said this morning. "We have to race against time" to save lives, he added. More than 200 buildings have been destroyed or severely damaged by flames in the city of Wajima as a result of the fires that broke out due to the earthquake, according to the fire department.
Another quake of magnitude 5.6 was recorded today at 10:37 a.m. local time (2:17 a.m. in Italy) in Japan's central-western prefecture Ishikawa, hit yesterday by the violent earthquake with a magnitude greater than 7: this was announced by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). According to Japan's meteorological agency JMA, central Japan was hit by at least 155 earthquakes between yesterday afternoon and this morning. Meanwhile, the JMA has officially lifted the risk of a tsunami.
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