Five days after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the region and with aftershocks continuing to hit, rescuers pulled a 90-year-old woman from the rubble of a collapsed building in Suzu, a city in the Ishikawa Prefecture on Honshu, the Guardian reports.
Officials say the likelihood of finding survivors after 72 hours is rare because victims typically succumb to injuries or blood loss before rescuers can find them. Suzu suffered the second most fatalities from Monday’s earthquake, with 38 dead; around 20 miles away, the town of Wajima, with 28,000 residents, reported 69 dead.
Authorities say 126 people were killed in the earthquake, but that number is likely to increase as rescue and recover efforts continue to be hampered by aftershocks, difficulty getting equipment to some hard-hit areas, and more than 100 landslides in the region that have occurred since Monday.