By JO MACFARLANE
Last updated at 4:10 AM on 14th March 2011
42 survivors have been pulled out of the rubble
Official death toll hits 1,597, but many hundreds believed to be buried under rubble or washed away by waves
Toll will soar after around 2,000 bodies were found on the shores of Miyagi prefecture
Second explosion at nuclear power plant
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
Forty-two survivors have been pulled from the rubble in the flattened town of Minami Sanrik, where up to 10,000 people are feared to have perished.
Around half the town's 18,000 residents are missing but search and rescue teams are still working desperately through the rubble to try and find more people.
Police are also trying to stop people returning to their homes.
Despite the first tsunami warning being issued to the town that lies two miles from the coastline, some residents decided to stay in their homes instead of fleeing – leading to the high number of missing people, CNN reported today..
Most of the houses in Minami Sanriku have been completely flattened and waterlogged and one house was found even with seaweed inside.
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