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davidjtsteele
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« on: December 12, 2013, 02:10:06 pm » |
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- Earthquake of 8.9/9.0 hectors in Northeast Japan - 10m high Tsunami around Japan swept away thousands of houses. - More than 10,000 people are expected to be dead in just one part of Japan. - Nuclear power stations are under emergency situations. - More than 70 countries and other international relations have offered help to Japan. - Names of people are updated every now and then at the disaster shelters in order to help the people to find their loved one's. - More than 50 aftershocks of nearly >5.0 Hectors magnitude have occured. My deepest sympathy's to the people who are dead. Take care everyone else. Quick updates found here: http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html |
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Aces
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2013, 02:11:25 pm » |
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Costal cities in Northern California (USA) are also being evacuated. The earthquake has effected all land surrounding the Pacific.
I actually watched live coverage within an hour after the event on both CNN and NHK World. CNN was re-broadcasting the images from NHK, finally I just found a working stream and watched NHK directly (their world channel has news in English). That more lives have not been lost speaks to the quality of their modern building codes. I understand central Tokyo mostly had damage from loose things falling off shelves. The real concern is the rural areas and the harder to access places. The death toll will likely rise as reports come out of those areas, and most of the deaths will probably be due to the tsnuami or the older buildings in such areas.
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Aces
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2013, 02:13:55 pm » |
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Lived in Tokyo for 4 years - my friends there are okay, but my friends in Sendai - have had no word
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davidjtsteele
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2013, 02:15:03 pm » |
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First post updated with some latest information. Lived in Tokyo for 4 years - my friends there are okay, but my friends in Sendai - have had no word
You might want to try and lookup their names via the google person finder linked in my first post. I hope that they are all good at the moment. |
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Turtles
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2013, 02:17:16 pm » |
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Yeah rather sick. More and more problems comming. Energy problems with the nuclear plants, an earthquake active again. How much trouble can you have in a few days time.
My sympathy to all affected.
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Turtles
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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2013, 02:17:46 pm » |
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According to what I had read in our local paper, one of the reactors in the Fukushima power plant had gone into meltdown, but officials managed to contain it with only minimal release of radiation.
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Preledge
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« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2013, 02:19:04 pm » |
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According to what I had read in our local paper, one of the reactors in the Fukushima power plant had gone into meltdown, but officials managed to contain it with only minimal release of radiation.
Apparantly, it just exploded. Not an explosion like Tsjernobyl though, but still... Lots of radioactive material being released. |
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Dan
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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2013, 02:21:19 pm » |
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I spent most of my weekend following http://rt.com/on-air/ when I could. They seemed to be updating their info quite rapidly as new information emerged. |
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Preledge
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2013, 02:22:35 pm » |
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My prayers go to the great nation of Japan who have always shown how they can eventually overcome.
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Dan
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2013, 02:24:04 pm » |
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REUTERSFLASH (ReutersBreakingNews)
Fuel rods are entirely exposed at Fukushima Daiichi No.2 reactor;
cannot rule out fuel meltdown (Jiji)
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