numbers sound minimal much what are they reporting in terms of the death toll? the death toll has been changing throughout the day substantially. there are reports of large numbers of people missing. the death toll is 1,400 according to the local media. but with death tolls they can jump around quite a lot. without hitting the right figures for a few days. we are looking at this video both in the city centers and the farmland and the railroad tracks are torn apart any rescue effort, you need staging areas, places to go and remove people and try to get them warm clothing but there does not look to be infrastructure to have staging areas to launch the