Officials in Ishikawa Prefecture say the number of people killed in the New Year's Day earthquake has risen to 202. They also say more than 100 people are still unaccounted for, and tens of thousands impacted by the disaster are still struggling.

Police have started an intensive search for the missing people in the city of Wajima, near the quake's epicenter. A massive fire in the center of the city destroyed more than 200 buildings in an area of 48,000 square meters. Ishikawa Prefecture says more than 3,000 people in the Noto region remain isolated.

Yamashita Kanako, an evacuee and a volunteer at a shelter in Wajima City, says people there don't have enough drinking water. She says they are boiling spring water to drink and bringing buckets of water from a river so they can flush their toilets.

Damaged roads have forced relief organizers to get creative. An association of drone companies has put its unmanned vehicles to work, delivering medicine to people cut-off in the Wajima City district of Konosu. It plans to continue using drones to help those in need.

As the recovery continues, findings suggest the disaster could have a lasting impact on the region's fishing industry. Officials say more than 120 fishing boats were capsized or sunk and over 70 percent of ports were damaged in Ishikawa.

It's now been over a week since the New Year's Day's magnitude 7.6 earthquake. But Japan's Meteorological Agency says people should not let their guard down just yet. The agency is warning of possible quakes with upper five or more intensity on Japan's zero-to-seven seismic scale over the coming month.