Japan earthquake April 11,2011: TOKYO – huge earthquake in Japan has made a super-modern Tokyo to the status quo because it paralyzed trains that usually run like clockwork, crippled phones, hordes of stranded passengers and dozens of people trapped in elevators.
The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit the coast last week and triggered a deadly tsunami in the northeast and violently shook buildings in the capital, where the train stopped to choke the flow of commuter evening for more than 10 million people.
“It’s like an earthquake that hits once in 100 years,” said restaurant worker Akira Tanaka, 54.
He refused to await the resumption of the train and decided to – his first – to walk from his home, 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of the capital. “I went to an hour and 10 minutes, about three hours to go,” he said.
Tokyo is proud to be ordered, technologically, even a futuristic city. Residents can usually count on a vast network of crisscrossing trains and subways. But the authorities were forced to crawl on the entire Web catastrophes and cancel almost all trains for the rest of the day.
Tomoko Suzuki and his elderly mother could not get on her twenty-ninth floor of a condominium because of a broken elevator. They unsuccessfully tried to catch a taxi home and parents could not immediately find a hotel room in their neighborhood.
“We’re so cold,” Suzuki said in a Friday evening in a crowded corner. “We do not really know what to do.”
Although there is no power outages in central Tokyo, some elevators may be damaged by the earthquake, while others were voluntarily closed as a precaution. In other countries, is largely failures left millions of homes and buildings without electricity.
Overall, 163 people were trapped in elevators across the country, the Department of Transport said, with 75 of them are still stuck on Saturday morning. It was unclear how many of them were in Tokyo.
Tens of thousands of people milled on the stations of the capital, roamed the streets and hunkered down on a 24-hour cafes, hotels and government agencies are invited as emergency shelter.
range of mobile phones were jammed, preventing almost all calls and text messages. Calls to the north-eastern Japan, where 23-feet (7 meters) tsunami stranded after the quake, as a rule, do not pass, with a record of that district lines were busy.
Unable to rely on their mobile phones, people began to line generally Tokyo vacant public telephone booths that dot the city.
Japan’s top telecommunications, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, created by an emergency call and a special website for people to leave messages for family and friends.
Up to 90 percent of calls are limited to prevent overloading of telecommunications equipment, NTT spokesman in May said Kariya. The company was checking the damage to the towers and cables.
Osamu Akiya, 46, works in the office of a trading company in Tokyo, when the quake sent shelves and computers crashing to the ground and opened cracks in the walls.
“I’ve been through many earthquakes, but I’ve never felt anything like this,” he said.
Several subway lines resumed service after six hours of downtime, and said they will work all night, past their usual hours.
When trains are few problems in Tokyo, they tend to work again in a few hours. Thus, many people initially expected at stations. But when the railroad company announced the suspension of almost all services during the day, crowds took to the streets.
City officials have proposed more than 60 government agencies, universities and other places on the stranded passengers to spend the night.
In the suburbs of Tokyo Yokohama offered blankets for those who want to sleep in the main concert hall of the community.
“There was never a big earthquake like this, when all the railways have stopped, so it is a first for us,” Yokohama Arena official Hideharu Terada said. “People are trickling in They all calmly.”
Japan earthquake April 11,2011
The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit the coast last week and triggered a deadly tsunami in the northeast and violently shook buildings in the capital, where the train stopped to choke the flow of commuter evening for more than 10 million people.
Japan earthquake April 11,2011
“It’s like an earthquake that hits once in 100 years,” said restaurant worker Akira Tanaka, 54.
He refused to await the resumption of the train and decided to – his first – to walk from his home, 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of the capital. “I went to an hour and 10 minutes, about three hours to go,” he said.
Tokyo is proud to be ordered, technologically, even a futuristic city. Residents can usually count on a vast network of crisscrossing trains and subways. But the authorities were forced to crawl on the entire Web catastrophes and cancel almost all trains for the rest of the day.
Tomoko Suzuki and his elderly mother could not get on her twenty-ninth floor of a condominium because of a broken elevator. They unsuccessfully tried to catch a taxi home and parents could not immediately find a hotel room in their neighborhood.
“We’re so cold,” Suzuki said in a Friday evening in a crowded corner. “We do not really know what to do.”
Although there is no power outages in central Tokyo, some elevators may be damaged by the earthquake, while others were voluntarily closed as a precaution. In other countries, is largely failures left millions of homes and buildings without electricity.
Overall, 163 people were trapped in elevators across the country, the Department of Transport said, with 75 of them are still stuck on Saturday morning. It was unclear how many of them were in Tokyo.
Tens of thousands of people milled on the stations of the capital, roamed the streets and hunkered down on a 24-hour cafes, hotels and government agencies are invited as emergency shelter.
range of mobile phones were jammed, preventing almost all calls and text messages. Calls to the north-eastern Japan, where 23-feet (7 meters) tsunami stranded after the quake, as a rule, do not pass, with a record of that district lines were busy.
Unable to rely on their mobile phones, people began to line generally Tokyo vacant public telephone booths that dot the city.
Japan’s top telecommunications, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, created by an emergency call and a special website for people to leave messages for family and friends.
Up to 90 percent of calls are limited to prevent overloading of telecommunications equipment, NTT spokesman in May said Kariya. The company was checking the damage to the towers and cables.
Osamu Akiya, 46, works in the office of a trading company in Tokyo, when the quake sent shelves and computers crashing to the ground and opened cracks in the walls.
“I’ve been through many earthquakes, but I’ve never felt anything like this,” he said.
Several subway lines resumed service after six hours of downtime, and said they will work all night, past their usual hours.
When trains are few problems in Tokyo, they tend to work again in a few hours. Thus, many people initially expected at stations. But when the railroad company announced the suspension of almost all services during the day, crowds took to the streets.
City officials have proposed more than 60 government agencies, universities and other places on the stranded passengers to spend the night.
In the suburbs of Tokyo Yokohama offered blankets for those who want to sleep in the main concert hall of the community.
“There was never a big earthquake like this, when all the railways have stopped, so it is a first for us,” Yokohama Arena official Hideharu Terada said. “People are trickling in They all calmly.”
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