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Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces are working on the site of a landslide caused by the Thursday earthquake in Atsuma, Hokkaido, northern Japan on Sunday, September 9, 2018. Japanese authorities have confirmed the Dead Island of Hokkaido last week (Yu Nakajima / Kyodo News via AP) (Associated Press)
TOKYO – According to the Japanese authorities, 37 people have been confirmed dead from a powerful earthquake that hit Hokkaido Island in the north last week.
The Hokkaido government said on Sunday that two people are still missing and another person has no vital signs. Rescuers use backhoes and shovels to search for missing ones in a tangle of dirt and rubble from homes left by many landslides in the town of Atsuma. All but four of the victims are from the community of 4,600.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a hard-hit area of Sapporo, the main city of Hokkaido.
The magnitude 6.7 earthquake, before sunrise, put an end to Hokkaido's electrical and rail service. It took two days to restore electricity in most of the island by 5.4 million people.
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