Earthquake Japan

[Jim Goose]

amazing survival after 8 days trapped...

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Man pulled alive from Japan rubble

By Mark Simkin, wires

Posted 14 minutes ago

Japanese rescuers have found a young man alive in the rubble of the Miyagi prefecture, in the north-east of the country, eight days after the country was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami.

It is a rare piece of good news from one of the hardest-hit areas following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

Eight days after the earthquake and tsunami devastated the town of Kesennuma, a man has been pulled from his partially collapsed home.

The Self Defence Forces identified the survivor as Katsuharu Moriya, who is thought to be in his 20s.

Television pictures showed him being carried into a hospital on a stretcher, conscious but reportedly unable to speak because of shock.

The man was found trapped on the second floor of a house and had wrapped himself in a blanket, Kyodo news agency said. He was conscious and his blood pressure and pulse were stable.

He was found a day after authorities said they had ended the rescue phase of the post-earthquake operation and would be concentrating on clearing rubble and restoring limited services.

It was not immediately clear how the man survived in an area where overnight temperatures have plunged below freezing.