And the aftershocks go on: 275 new tremors hit quake-torn Japan as fears grow for missing 10,000 in flattened port town

• 42 survivors have been pulled out of the rubble
  
• Official death toll hits 763, but many hundreds believed to be buried under rubble or washed away by waves
• Explosion at nuclear power plant, but experts say reactor is not at risk
• 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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