2024-01-02 08:35:50
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A race against time is being waged on Tuesday in Japan to find survivors after an earthquake which devastated the Noto peninsula, in the center of the country, on Monday, killing 30 people according to a new provisional report. Authorities in the Ishikawa department, which includes the Noto peninsula, reported on Tuesday 30 dead, 14 seriously injured and “many” minor injuries.
Magnitude 7.6 and felt as far as Tokyo, 320 km as the crow flies from Noto, the earthquake also caused immense material damage and a tsunami on Monday on the coasts of the Sea of Japan, which ultimately remained low magnitude, waves up to 1.2 meters high having been measured.
Several missiles were flying toward Kiev on Tuesday morning, the Ukrainian air force said, shortly after air alerts were issued across the country due to the threat posed by active Russian bombers.
“kyiv – stay in the shelters. Many missiles are heading (towards you),” the Ukrainian Air Force communicated on Telegram. According to an AFP journalist, “at least 10 powerful explosions” were heard. The day before, Vladimir Putin had promised to “intensify strikes” after a deadly Ukrainian attack in Belgorod.
The heavy rainfall in the northern half of the country has led Météo-France to place ten departments, from the North to Vendée, on orange alert for floods and a risk of rain-flooding.
Finistère, Loire-Atlantique, Manche, Mayenne, Morbihan, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Sarthe and Vendée are on orange alert for rain-floods. In its latest bulletin published at 6 a.m., the meteorological agency reported that Finistère had been placed on orange flood alert which still concerns Pas-de-Calais and the North.
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