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Buriram Province - General Category => International News clippings => Topic started by: nookiebear on March 11, 2011, 03:11:04 PM

Title: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: nookiebear on March 11, 2011, 03:11:04 PM

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

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: boloa on March 11, 2011, 03:44:44 PM

Here's a You tube
Tsunami hits north-eastern Japan after massive quake (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIudpNlVcTg#)

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

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: boloa on March 11, 2011, 03:58:32 PM

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

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: boloa on March 11, 2011, 04:04:01 PM

More here from CNN

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

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: boloa on March 11, 2011, 04:09:40 PM

News from Reuters

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

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: boloa on March 11, 2011, 05:33:49 PM

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 (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/226169/japan-quake-won-t-affect-thailand)

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: Admin on March 11, 2011, 05:47:09 PM

Massive Earthquake & Tsunami Hits Japan (2011) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVClTJ09S7k#ws)
Japan Earthquake 8.9 (3/11/2011) Latest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ij5f1D5DeU#)
3/Video of cars_ ships wrecked by tsunami waves after Japan earthquake.flv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg3G2cZ8dDc#)

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: Admin on March 11, 2011, 11:50:05 PM

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

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: Admin on March 15, 2011, 10:19:54 AM

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.

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: boloa on March 15, 2011, 10:29:47 AM

This morning I tried to explain Tectonic Plates and why Earthquakes happen to my wife . brick1

In the end I just went and got the Noodles  :laugh: :laugh:

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: boloa on March 17, 2011, 08:18:20 PM

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

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

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: nico on March 21, 2011, 09:52:34 PM

Tsunami  view from Japan coastguard boat

Japan tsunami at sea (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTajjOpyHk#ws)

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: Fish on March 25, 2011, 07:58:37 PM

[Official MV] Thai For Japan : เบิร์ด ธงไชย แมคอินไตย์ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgy8bFVWM2E#ws)

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: boloa on March 28, 2011, 12:11:15 PM

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

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: Admin on April 11, 2011, 05:19:54 PM

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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.

JAPAN 11/ 04/ 2011 -- NEW 7.1 EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN -- TSUNAMI WARNING (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b4oDjN8Y4A#ws)

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: nookiebear on April 11, 2011, 06:21:34 PM

Jesus they are getting a belting lately

Title: Re: Massive 8.9 Earthquake rocks Eastern Japan
Post by: Admin on April 12, 2011, 09:57:01 AM

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Crisis Level Raised To the Worst Level In Japan Equal To Chernobyl

The Japanese government's nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency made the decision on Monday. It says the damaged facilities have been releasing a massive amount of radioactive substances, which are posing a threat to human health and the environment over a wide area.

The agency used the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, or INES, to gauge the level. The scale was designed by an international group of experts to indicate the significance of nuclear events with ratings of 0 to 7.

On March 18th, one week after the massive quake, the agency declared the Fukushima trouble a level 5 incident, the same as the accident at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979.

Level 7 has formerly only been applied to the Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union in 1986 when hundreds of thousands of terabecquerels of radioactive iodine-131 were released into the air. One terabecquerel is one trillion becquerels.

The agency believes the cumulative amount from the Fukushima plant is less than that from Chernobyl.

Officials from the agency and the Nuclear Safety Commission will hold a news conference on Tuesday morning to explain the change of evaluation.


Fukushima Nuclear Plant Crisis Level Raised To the Worst Level In Japan Equal To Chernobyl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x415Io8umIs#ws)
Real Story Behind Leaking Water into the Ocean...Fukushima Fairwind Associates Japan. W- SOUND! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj3L64q2nvE#noexternalembed-ws)