Five years after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is still not found 2.5 thousand. people. Authorities resume search – Virtual Poland

• An earthquake with a strength of 9 on the Richter scale hit Japan in 2011
 

 • According to the National Police Agency is still missing 2,561 people
 

 • Coast Guard in Rikuzentakata resumed the search for missing
 

 • Action Exploration organized at the request of the victims’ families
 

Five years after a powerful earthquake and accompanying tsunami in Japan is still not found 2.5 thousand. people. Coast Guard in the town of Rikuzentakata in northeastern Japan resumed the search for the missing. As reported by the Associated Press, the search action, organized at the request of relatives of the missing in the Gulf of Hirota, it was attended by six divers.

Efforts to resume the search has taken one of the families, appealing to the beginning of the year to support the initiative through Facebook. Within three weeks we managed to collect a little over 28 thousand. signatures.
 

In early March, a petition submitted to the authorities of the city in the hope that the share of exploration, which in recent years is carried out on a smaller scale because of the cost of rebuilding the country after the disaster of 2011, is also involved police.

According to the Japanese National Police Agency is still missing 2,561 people, 200 of whom came from Rikuzentakaty. It is located in the prefecture of Iwate city was a result of the tsunami almost completely destroyed.
 

The earthquake with a strength of over 9 on the Richter scale, which caused the catastrophic tsunami, occurred March 11, 2011 year. The balance of the cataclysm at least 20 thousand. dead and missing. Material losses shortly after the disaster was estimated at over 200 billion dollars.
 

The then Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said then about the “national tragedy without precedent”.
 

The earthquake and giant tsunami caused the failure of cooling systems and as a result of melting of the fuel rods at Fukushima nuclear power plant. The failure resulted in significant emissions of radioactive substances; it was the largest nuclear disaster since the outbreak of the reactor in Chernobyl in 1986.