Super earthquake No2 alert in Japan

TOM WELLS
The Sun
March 14, 2011

SHATTERED Japan is braced for a fresh quake nightmare – with a mega aftershock likely to hit at any moment.

The alert was issued as millions who survived the tsunami that devastated the hi-tech superpower spent a third day without food, water or electricity — and amid heightening fears of nuclear catastrophe.

Today the president of Japan’s Red Cross compared the aftermath of the disaster to “Osaka and Tokyo after World War Two”.

Tadateru Konoe spoke as rescue workers searched the blazing rubble and debris in the town of Otsuchi for survivors.

He said: “Everything is destroyed and flattened. This is a complete disaster. In my long career in the Red Cross, this is the worst I have ever seen.”

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