thousands of people killed. i was looking at statistics from the january 17, 1995 kobe earthquake, just now. about 6,000 people okay, john,im going to come right back to you. but we are hearing from the japanese prime minister. let s listen in. and over a wide area, damage has been. i offer my deepest sympathy to the people who have suffered the disaster. regarding our nuclear power facilities, some of the nuclear power plants have stopped automatically, but so far. no radioactive material, radiation has been confirmed, has been leak to the outside. there has been no informs on those lines so far. and given the situation an emergency disaster response headquarters has been set up, with myself as the head.
seen on television and heard over radio that at 1446 today an earthquake hit of 8.4 on the magnitude scale, centered around the shores offshore sanduku and a very strong earthquake. in the tohoku region mainly over a wide area, damage has been inflicted. i offer my deepest sympathy to the people who have suffered the disaster. regarding our nuclear power facilities, some of the nuclear power plants have stopped automatically. but so far no radioactive material or radiation has been confirmed to have been leaked to the outside. there has been no information of those lines so far. and given the situation, an emergency disaster response headquarters has been set up with myself as the head.
mostly being burned in tokyo. you re talking about these fires. we saw some breaking out in tokyo. are you talking about a significant firebreaking out in such a populated area such as tokyo, or maybe something in an area like miyagi prefecture? it could be all of them. i mean, if they get going in tokyo it s much more devastating, because the fire can turn into complications which is what happened in 1923. dr. jones, i apologize, but i need to interrupt you. but we re getting word there s a press conference right now with the prime minister. translator: so far, no radioactive material or radiation has been confirmed to have been leaked to the outside. there has been no information of those lines so far. and given the situation, an emergency disaster response headquarters has been set up, with myself as the head.
magnitude scale centered around the shores offshore, a very strong earthquake and in the tohoku region and over a wide area damage has been estimated. i offer my deepest sympathy to the people who have suffered the disaster. regarding our nuclear power facility, some of the nuclear power plants have stopped automatically, but so far no radioactive material or radiation has been confirmed to have been leaked to the outside. there has been no information of those lines so far. and given the situation, an emergency disaster response headquarters have been set up with myself as the head. we will secure the safety of the people of japan and in order to minimize the damage, the