ANAMIZU: Rescue and recovery crews were mobilised on Sunday, September 22, in a remote peninsula that had already been severely damaged by a significant earthquake earlier in the year after floods and landslides in central Japan left one person dead and at least six missing.
The area experienced “unprecedented” torrential rain on Saturday; the rain has since subsided, leaving muddy pictures of devastation. The national weather agency warned locals to remain alert for unstable ground and other hazards.
Piles of broken branches and a massive uprooted tree gathered at a bridge across a river in Wajima, its roaring brown waters nearly reaching the ground.
While floodwaters elsewhere submerged emergency accommodation constructed for families who had lost their homes in the New Year’s Day earthquake that killed at least 318 people, people were observed wading through the mud to try to extract partially submerged cars.
Wajima and Suzu, two of the cities on the Noto Peninsula most severely struck by the magnitude-7.5 earthquake that caused building collapses, created tsunami waves and started a large fire, were afflicted by eight temporary housing complexes.
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