Tohoku-Oki Death Toll May Reach 100,000
According to today's Time Magazine News Feed, large gaps exist between official death tolls in last friday's earthquake, and unofficial estimates. Large sections of entire towns are missing. Japanese procedures are that persons have to be reported missing by someone in order to be counted as missing. However, in many cases, there is no one to report the missing, since they, too have been swept away. The article quotes Chiba University professor Ken Joseph as saying that he thinks the death toll will be closer to 100,000 than 10,000.
Read about it here: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/18/japans-surging-death-toll-complicate...
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Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
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John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Geology at UC Davis and
the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He
chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.