ANAMIZU: Floods and landslides left one dead and at least six missing in central Japan, with rescue and recovery teams at work on Sunday (Sep 22) in a remote peninsula already devastated by a major earthquake earlier this year.
"Unprecedented" heavy rains that lashed the area from Saturday began to subside, leaving muddy scenes of destruction as the national weather agency urged residents to stay vigilant for loose ground and other dangers.
In the city of Wajima, piles of splintered branches and a huge uprooted tree amassed at a bridge over a river whose raging brown waters almost reached ground level.
People were seen wading into the mud to try to dig out half-buried cars, while elsewhere flood waters inundated emergency housing built for those who had lost their homes in the New Year's Day earthquake that killed at least 318 people.
Eight temporary housing complexes were affected in Wajima and Suzu, two of the cities on the Noto Peninsula hardest hit by the magnitude-7.5 quake, which toppled buildings, triggered tsunami waves and sparked a major fire.
Muddy rivers ran high in Anamizu, a city on the Noto Peninsula, where damage from the January quake that killed at least 318 people is still visible, AFP reporters said.
More than 540mm of rainfall in the past 72 hours to Sunday morning was recorded in Wajima - the heaviest continuous rain since comparative data became available in 1976.
Landslides blocked roadsjiliko, complicating rescue efforts, and tens of thousands of people in the wider region have been urged to evacuate.
A house, which was damaged by an earthquake this January, is seen covered with blue tarps, as a nearby river is seen swollen due to heavy rain in Anamizu town of Ishikawa prefecture on Sep 22, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Yuichi Yamazaki)
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