I usually am watching Japanese channel in English, we liquidated any American TV, have a primitive antenna only. So I don't know if any of our news stations or networks covered the disaster. Japanese did.
Yes, terrible...They have land slides often, this one was probably the worst in the history of jade mining there. I think the people who suffers most are not full time miners but scavengers working on hills made of dumped dirt. Those hills are not stable of course.