Japan earthquake and tsunami: 10,000 people missing in Minamisanriku as aftershocks hamper rescue efforts | Mail Online

Japan earthquake and tsunami: 10,000 people missing in Minamisanriku as aftershocks hamper rescue efforts | Mail Online

• 10,000 people missing in Minamisanriku after double disaster
  
• Official death toll hits 574, but many hundreds believed to be buried under rubble or washed away by waves
• Explosion at nuclear power plant, but experts say reactor is not at risk
• Number of people contaminated with radiation could reach 160
  
• Region hit by hundreds of aftershocks, some up to 6.8-magnitude
• Rescue operation begins but some areas still cut off by road damage and flood waters
• 70,000 people evacuated to shelters in Sendai
  
• Force of quake shifts Japan 8ft to the East