Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan

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A massive Earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan has caused a Tsunami only 3 dead to date

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Here's a You tube


And BBC Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

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Pictures on this BBC link also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709791

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More here from CNN

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/03/11/bpr.lah.japan.quake.cnn

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News from Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS20110311

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Japan tsunami won’t hit Thailand

The 8.8-magnitute earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan today will not have any impact on Thailand, Somsak Kaosuwon, director of the Natural Disaster Warning Centre, confirmed on Friday afternoon.

“We have monitored the strong earthquake since it first hit Japan about noon. There will be no affect on Thailand and Thai people should not panic,” Col Somsak said.

Thani Thongphakdi, director-general of the Information Department at Foreign Ministry, said there are about 50,000 Thais in Japan. About 300 of them are living in the coastal area of Miyagi, near the earthquake's centre, on the main island of Honshu.

 â€œThe Thai embassy in Japan is now coordinating with the Thai community in Miyagi to see if they are all right  and what assistance they need,” Mr Thani said.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/226169/japan-quake-won-t-affect-thailand

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Government to help Thais in Japan  
Bangkok Post * Published: 11/03/2011 at 05:11 PM

The Foreign Ministry is preparing to provide help to the estimated 50,000 Thais in disaster-hit Japan if they need it.

The ministry said about 300 Thai people are reported living in tsunami-affected Miyaki.

Thai Airways International (THAI) president Piyasvastir Amranand said THAI has redirected flights to Tokyo from Narita and Haneda airports, which have been closed temporarily.

An 8.9 Richter scale earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan, triggering tsunamis across the Asia Pacific region and massive flooding along the Japanese coast.

Reports said at least 19 people have been confirmed dead but the death toll is likely to increase.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/226178/government-to-help-thais-in-japan

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Scientists puzzled by earthquakes
By Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation 2011-03-15

Japanese seismicists and geologists are being doubtful about the recent Great East Japan earthquake with 9 magnitude and killed over ten thousands people on last Friday, saying it was abnormal phenomenon.

"Nobody could tell the reasons about this strange phenomenon, " a prominent Japanese geophysicist Professor Michio Hashizume, who is lecturer of Chulalongkorn Univesity's Department of Geology.

His finding was presented at the round table discussion entitled " The new finding from recent earthquake in Japan and concerning related with Thai society" organized Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Science.

He said he was surprised by this earthquake by the size of the area of fault. It was between 400 kilometers and 100 kilometers wide.

Moreover, at least 7 earthquakes with magnitude between 5 to 7 had occurred after the killer earthquake near Sendai on Friday, he added.

"These series of quakes are not the aftershocks. So far,nobody could explain how these small quakes linked with the earthquake in Sendai," Machio said.

The small quakes with between 5 magnitude to 7 magnitude had occurred in different areas in Japan. The quakes did not occur in the proper areas that aftershock should occur. The aftershocks should occur within 100 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake.

"This was very strange. Everybody is now being headache," he said.

He said the Japan Earthquake Prediction Committee had recently predicted that the earthquake with 7 magnitude nearby Sendai city would be occurred in next 30 years but it had took place earlier than the prediction.

"We need at least ten years to study about this phenomenon," he added.

Macho also expressed his concerns over the constructions in Japan especially in nuclear plants across country.

Even a preliminary report confirmed that the nuclear plants were not destroyed by the quake but they were damaged by the powerful tsunami.

That means most of constructions in Japan including nuke plants were designed and constructed to handle with the earthquake except the powerful tsunami.

"This was our weak points to handle with natural disasters," he said.

"It was our lesson to learn how to improve the facilities in Japan to prevent the devastation from tsunami," he added.

However, he said the Japan Earthquake Prediction Agency has predicted that another earthquake with 7 magnitude would take place in Japan next three days.

Meanwhile, Sathon Vicharnwannalak, a lecturer of Physics Department, Chulalongkorn University said there were a lot of confusion about the tsunami early warning messages that released by Thailand disaster related agencies such as Meteorological Department, National Disaster Warning Center,and Mineral Resources Department.

"There was no unity among related agencies to issue tsunami alert messages and caused confusion among people in 15 provinces in the south," he said.

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This morning I tried to explain Tectonic Plates and why Earthquakes happen to my wife .

In the end I just went and got the Noodles 

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Japan's apocalypse now: Rescuers pick their way through a wasteland of bodies, wreckage and people washing in rivers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366395/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Rescuers-pick-way-apocalypse-wasteland.html

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Tsunami  view from Japan coastguard boat

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Magnitude-6.5 quake off Japan; small tsunami alert

NEW YORK (AP) -- A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook eastern Japan off the quake-ravaged coast on Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, prompting Japan to issue a tsunami alert.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that a tsunami of up to 1.6 feet (a half meter) may wash into Miyagi Prefecture.

The tsunami alert was localized to Japan. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no wave was expected in Hawaii or on the U.S. west coast.

The alert was prompted by a quake that the U.S. Geological Survey measured at 7:23 a.m. Monday Japan time (2223 GMT Sunday) near the east coast of Honshu.

The USGS said the quake was 3.7 miles (5.9 kilometers) deep.

A magnitude-9 quake off Japan's northeast coast on March 11 triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore, triggering a humanitarian disaster that is thought to have killed about 18,000 people.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE_TSUNAMI_ALERT?SITE=CTNHR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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JAPAN 11/ 04/ 2011 -- NEW 7.1 EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN - TSUNAMI WARNING

Workers have been temporarily evacuated from the Fukushima nuclear plant as a 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits Iwaki in the Fukushima prefecture in Japan.