New Zealand Quake

(CNN) -- Morgues in Christchurch have identified 76 victims of Tuesday's quake, according to Police Minister Judith Collins, but hundreds are still missing -- among them, nearly 30 Japanese students.
As more bodies are recovered and as the identification process continues, authorities acknowledge that the number of fatalities will rise.
Some 431 people have been admitted to hospital emergency rooms since the quake, according to Iona Wassilieff with New Zealand's National Crisis Management Center. Authorities say another 1,000 people have been treated for minor injuries.
Currently, 27 Japanese students are among those missing, according to Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Most of that group is from Toyama Foreign Language College; two are students from another language school in Tokyo and five are on personal study trips from other parts of Japan.
Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper interviewed two victims from Toyama Foreign Language College who were pulled from the rubble in New Zealand. Kento Okuda and Norika Masutani are both 19-years-old and students at the language school, and now both are patients at Christchurch Hospital.
Okuda said he was in the cafeteria having lunch on the fourth floor when he felt the first, big shake, according to the paper. The floor gave way and he felt himself falling, but said he had no no idea how far he fell. The entire building was dark, he said, and he realized he couldn't move his right leg because it was trapped under heavy rubble.
Masutani was also on the fourth floor when the quake hit, Asahi Shimbun said. She said she panicked when the floor gave way.....

-When i first heard about this devastating situation i thought to myself,  OMG i have a lot of family members living in NZ. But then again my grandparents told me that they are not located at ChristChurch. But still this news still devastates me because knowing a lot of people has been buried alive and even passed. I wish i had something to do, something to donate because ive been watching the news and these people hardly have anyhing to survive with. Now im just hoping that a miracle will happen to those who are out there, and that they keep their faith in god.


Original date posted; Feb 23, 2011 8:40 p.m