"We survived, but what are we supposed to do from here?" "Children we talk to say that whenever there's a tremor they are scared that something is going to happen," McDonald told the Guardian from Sendai, where the organisation has set up an operations base.About a quarter of the 1,200 people sleeping on cardboard mats at one shelter in Sendai were children, many of them with disabilities. Video,ICYMI: A thirsty armadillo and record-breaking free diver,Striking news pictures from around the world,Women try to rip masks off men detaining protesters. Many petrol stations were closed and some rationed sales to 10 litres per car.Save the Children estimated that as many as 100,000 children may have been displaced. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.Click on this image to zoom into the picture.International rescue teams have been helping search for survivors in the coastal city of Ofunato in Iwate prefecture (above).The BBC's Gavin Lee is with the British team in Ofunato.The city was one of the closest to the epicentre of the earthquake and was also hit by the tsunami.Our correspondent reported seeing ships on top of houses and hundreds of vehicles, including a school bus, in piles of debris.The British rescue team has been sent to Ofunato along with teams from the US and China.It is made up of 59 fire service search and rescue specialists, two rescue dogs and a medical support team of four.Rescuing people after a tsunami is particularly difficult because buildings in which people may be trapped are damaged by the wave coming in and going out and also by being hit by debris such as vehicles and other houses.Gavin Lee says that particular damage has been caused by wood from a timber yard crashing into buildings.The first job for the rescuers is to divide the area that they are searching into a grid and then systematically search the area with sniffer dogs.The dogs help to narrow down the search by identifying buildings in which there may be survivors or bodies.This particular dog is from a US search and rescue team, which is usually based in Virginia.Once they have narrowed their search, the teams use listening equipment and heat imaging devices to help them locate any survivors in the rubble.This team preparing its equipment is from China.Some of the lower-lying areas of the city have been flattened, but it is hoped that the many higher buildings that have remained standing will yield some survivors.The British team has brought 11 tonnes of equipment, including devices for heavy lifting and cutting.Gavin Lee says that the rescue teams described Ofunato as being the biggest job they had seen.The volunteers travel at very short notice to natural disasters around the world.While there have been some people rescued alive elsewhere in Japan, so far in Ofunato the British team has only recovered bodies.Republicans vow to replace Ginsburg with Trump pick,'Inspiring, revolutionary, a fighter' Video,Thais hold huge protest demanding reforms,What does a second lockdown feel like? Following Japan's earthquake and tsunami, a rescue team of the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief waits to depart from Tokyo to assist with relief efforts. Japan has spent billions on seawalls and those walls— sometimes double layers of them, like Maginot Lines—stood guarding her coastal cities.Thirty minutes later, the water rolled in. A family photo album. Maybe we can make new concrete homes in higher places. Dickson said. A television. Japan's humanitarian crisis has intensified with relief workers being hampered by freezing temperatures and snowfalls while survivors struggle with shortages of water, food and electricity.Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, ordered a shift in the focus of relief efforts from search and rescue to caring for an estimated half a million people who have been evacuated from provinces affected by the earthquake and tsunami and many others who have been left homeless.The disaster has damaged or destroyed about 60,000 buildings, but the magnitude of the human toll is not yet reflected in figures from the National Police Agency emergency disaster headquarters which show 2,475 dead and 3,118 people missing. The present overwhelms the future.Chiba says her husband wants to stay, as Oshiro is his home town, but she wants to leave. Tanaka (who was 5 in 1960 when the Chile earthquake and tsunami struck) and her aunt abandoned the car, raced up the stairs of a six-story building to its roof—with water nipping at their waists—and huddled with nothing but two boxes of chocolates and a sheet through a night of snow and rain.Ten days later, Kesennuma, Rikuzentakata, Ofunato, Oshiro and dozens of others are in ruins. The low-lying parts of Miyako are as devastated as anywhere else.Here, the unfolding nuclear crisis 150 miles south in Fukushima that has captured the world's attention seems remote, unreal. "People were just in shock, crying with their mouths open." This is Ofunato today: a teddy bear. Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. SENDAI, Japan — Japan launched a massive military rescue operation Saturday after a giant, quake-fed tsunami killed hundreds of people and turned the northeastern coast into a swampy wasteland, while authorities braced for a possible meltdown at a nuclear reactor.

The BBC's Gavin Lee is … It meant nothing. International rescue teams have been helping search for survivors in the coastal city of Ofunato in Iwate prefecture (above). Another body for the police to dig out.Monty Dickson's girlfriend has been here a week looking for him. Some people here say there were four waves, others five. He and 200 colleagues drove straight to Rikuzentakata; the usually 6-hour drive took 18. They were looking for the living, but the living have been found and they've gone home. They marked every destroyed house or upside-down car with a date and a circle. "These latest developments will obviously make the humanitarian effort more difficult," said Red Cross spokesman Francis Markus.Red Cross worker Patrick Fuller told the BBC that the situation around the coastal town of Otsuchi was desperate, with people scavenging for food and rescue teams trying to put out forest fires. But the rest of the city will have to be scooped up and thrown away.Yet the rescue goes on. Save the Children said a fifth of those displaced were children and warned the disaster could result in many being orphaned.As a powerful aftershock rocked Shizuoka, south west of Tokyo, about 1.4m households remained without water and 843,000 households serviced by Tokyo Electric and Tohoku Electric power companies experienced power cuts.

In the shelter of a tent on a city street, firemen look over a map divided into searchable sections and then fan out for another afternoon of looking. A city of 26,000, is gone; 3600 houses obliterated.     At least 15,899 people died, and another 2,500 went missing. There is a saying that 'disaster happens when people forget.' The smell of dampness and plaster and dead fish.