"Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> ...I get the impression that the only reason the rescue people were
> looking for that car was because the husband kept nagging them. And then
> they found it on Tuesday, but decided no-one could possibly be alive
> under those rocks so left it until Wednesday?

From I've got, Japan has something like 1/10th of the equipment/trained
staff necessary to rescue victims of a quake of that size, so they make a
sort of priority list. Now, how they decide who they rescue first....

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