The death toll from the Noto Peninsula earthquake has risen to 126, with 209 still missing (as of the 6th). ■Family continues to sleep in car talks about life in evacuation Saturday Station headed to Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, where the greatest number of casualties have occurred. There, we met the Tokuno family, who are sleeping in their car outside the evacuation center. The two grandparents are living in evacuation shelters with their granddaughter Tamaki (3), in place of the parents, who are busy working at the city hall and responding to disasters. Since the disaster, they have been forced to sleep in their car since the disaster occurred, as they were worried that their children would be a nuisance to others in the communal evacuation shelters. Grandmother Kimiko and Tamaki sleep in the back seat, while grandfather Kiichiro sleeps with the driver's seat reclined. Tokuno Kimiko, who continues to sleep in her car, said, "I can't really stretch my limbs, so I'm worried about my legs, so I'll go for a walk when it gets light, or go out for a bit." Whenever they need supplies, they go to the evacuation shelter. What I'm most worried about right now is... Kimiko Tokuno (68), who continues to sleep in her car "Every day I worry about gasoline. When I feel like I'm running out of gas for the night, I turn the heating off a little in the middle of the night, and then when it gets cold again, I turn it on, and that's how it goes. I'm worried that it will be a problem if it snows." Kiichiro Tokuno (74), who continues to sleep in his car "I feel lucky just to be alive. I can't do laundry, there's no electricity, and there's no gasoline. So, wanting to take a bath, or wanting to take a bath, is the height of luxury. I want to at least change my clothes, at least my underwear. That's the most I can ask for, or hope for." ■The reporting team goes to isolated areas There are still many "isolated areas" remaining in Wajima City. Today, there was a place where the Self-Defense Forces and evacuated residents cooperated to manually transport supplies to isolated areas. One of the isolated areas is the Kugenosu district of Wajima City. Today, our camera entered for the first time. The road is cracked, houses are tilted, and block walls that are several dozen meters high have collapsed. We continue walking and finally reach the evacuation shelter. Supplies have started to arrive from the Self-Defense Forces since yesterday, but there are no lifelines such as electricity, gas, or water. Naoyuki Murata (Wajima City employee), the evacuation shelter manager, said, "This is how we draw water for the toilets. We get water from the nearby river to fill them. It's really like a circle of residents, and we're saved by everyone's help." The main reason why isolated villages remain is because of "broken roads." Cracks and sinkholes can be seen everywhere. In many places, only one side of the road can be used, and traffic jams are occurring in many places on the roads in the disaster area. As a result, the supplies that finally reach the base are not reaching the evacuation shelters and homes beyond. There is also a shortage of carriers, so it is a challenge to deliver them as precisely as possible. ■The horror of the tsunami that struck the city - Two characteristics examined from video footage And the full extent of the damage caused by the tsunami is still unclear. At least one person is missing in Suzu City after the tsunami. Many of the missing people announced by the prefecture are residents of areas close to the sea. What on earth was happening at that time? This time, the reporting team obtained multiple videos that captured the moment of the "tsunami". Two characteristics were identified. The first was its "speed of arrival". The video shows the tsunami taken from a house about 70 meters away from the coast of Suzu City. The tsunami flows with great force, engulfing rubble. More than half of the first floor of the house is submerged, and there is also a car that is half submerged. In fact, this video was taken around 4:15 pm on the 1st. The earthquake occurred around 4:10, so this tsunami arrived about 5 minutes after the earthquake. Another characteristic is that "the power of the rebound tsunami was amplified due to the influence of the terrain". In this location in Suzu City, a large tsunami hit 30 minutes after the earthquake. At high places, the tsunami reached people's waists. Then, two minutes later, a photo taken from further inland captured the tsunami steadily moving inland. Experts say that due to the underwater topography around the Noto Peninsula, the same wave turns around and surges toward the land again. When it does, it joins with other waves and becomes larger than the first wave. Professor Imamura Fumihiko of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University said, "On the Japan Sea side, the largest waves tend to occur later, not one or two waves. We don't know when the largest wave will hit. It is very important to continue evacuating." [TV Asahi News] https://news.tv-asahi.co.jp