Two earthquakes measuring 7.8 and 8.8, the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, they hit Japan and caused a tsunami with waves ten meters that have already wiped out a ship with 100 people on board a passenger train in service cosiera area in the north east of the country. We still do not know the number of victims is impossible to quantify, the information is fragmentary.
When talking about 395 people died (300 corpses found only on the beach in Sendai) and dozens of missing people (including 23 students), but the budget is expected to grow especially since there are many more missing. The vast area affected. In Tokyo, the quake triggered the panic. Some refineries have exploded and the stations were closed for safety.
The offices were immediately evacuated and public transport is blocked for security. The time that has happened, at 14.45 (6:45 to Italian), allowed an immediate reaction to the emergency. Tokyo airport and railway lines were closed. Blocked the four nuclear assets. In the turbine room of the central Onagawa a fire broke out following the earthquake.
The government in Tokyo said the emergency situation to any risk of radioactive leaks by ensuring that when none have been recorded. Now there are fears the arrival of a tsunami alert was launched for all the coasts of the Pacific, including Australia and South America, except United States and Canada.
According to geologists the waves are moving at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour. The countries in which an alert is in effect are especially Russia, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru.
For the moment there's no evidence of serious tsunami outside of Japan. The government sent the army in the most affected areas and the prime minister sought to reassure the public by inviting them to stay calm. "We launched an operating committee of emergency and ask everyone to pay close attention to all the signs that will be provided.
We must keep calm, "said Naoto Kan, the brief statement that followed the extraordinary cabinet meeting, wearing blue overalls used for emergency situations. The prime minister added that an initial review "the damages are substantial," while the Japanese cabinet secretary, Yukio Edan, said that it was the worst earthquake the country's history.
Instant international solidarity to Japan. The Kremlin leader Dmitri Medvedev announced that Russia is ready to provide aid for the earthquake today and asked to take action in the Kuril Islands, claimed by Tokyo, to prevent injuries and damage as the tsunami associated with the earthquake in Japan.
France also said it was "ready to answer all the possible stresses that Japan will ask you to cope with this tragedy," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a letter to Prime Minister Naoto Kan. In his message, Sarkozy expressed "support and solidarity" of France to Japan and its people, "in this particularly difficult time." British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to help Japan hit by an earthquake "that makes us be terrible reminder of the destructive forces of nature." Speaking on the margins of the EU summit in Brussels, Cameron said that "everyone should think about that country and its people" and said he had asked his government "to understand what Britain can do to be helpful." The Foreign Office has meanwhile established a dedicated telephone line to the British who have friends and relatives in Japan.
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent a letter to Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, to express his condolences for the victims of the earthquake and to emphasize the closeness of Berlin and Japan. "I learned with dismay the news of the terrible earthquake that shook his country," reads the letter, whose text was published.
"Please send my sincere condolences to the relatives of the victims and my best wishes for recovery to the wounded. You may be sure that Germany is on the side of Japan in these tragic hours and is ready to help. " The Crisis Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the early hours of this morning is in contact with the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo, which, in turn, has set up a crisis cell to contact these Italians in the areas most affected by the earthquake and ensure on their health status and pay, where necessary, assistance.
Meanwhile, the network teams thirty-five UN search and rescue operations in disaster relief are ready to intervene if the Japanese government so requests. , Said in Geneva today the spokesman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Elizabeth Byrs. The UN experts in Geneva are in constant contact with Japan.
The Japanese television reported that the antenna on top of Tokyo Tower, the symbol of Japan's capital and the post-war reconstruction, it is bent due to earthquakes in the afternoon. 
When talking about 395 people died (300 corpses found only on the beach in Sendai) and dozens of missing people (including 23 students), but the budget is expected to grow especially since there are many more missing. The vast area affected. In Tokyo, the quake triggered the panic. Some refineries have exploded and the stations were closed for safety.
The offices were immediately evacuated and public transport is blocked for security. The time that has happened, at 14.45 (6:45 to Italian), allowed an immediate reaction to the emergency. Tokyo airport and railway lines were closed. Blocked the four nuclear assets. In the turbine room of the central Onagawa a fire broke out following the earthquake.
The government in Tokyo said the emergency situation to any risk of radioactive leaks by ensuring that when none have been recorded. Now there are fears the arrival of a tsunami alert was launched for all the coasts of the Pacific, including Australia and South America, except United States and Canada.
According to geologists the waves are moving at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour. The countries in which an alert is in effect are especially Russia, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru.
For the moment there's no evidence of serious tsunami outside of Japan. The government sent the army in the most affected areas and the prime minister sought to reassure the public by inviting them to stay calm. "We launched an operating committee of emergency and ask everyone to pay close attention to all the signs that will be provided.
We must keep calm, "said Naoto Kan, the brief statement that followed the extraordinary cabinet meeting, wearing blue overalls used for emergency situations. The prime minister added that an initial review "the damages are substantial," while the Japanese cabinet secretary, Yukio Edan, said that it was the worst earthquake the country's history.
Instant international solidarity to Japan. The Kremlin leader Dmitri Medvedev announced that Russia is ready to provide aid for the earthquake today and asked to take action in the Kuril Islands, claimed by Tokyo, to prevent injuries and damage as the tsunami associated with the earthquake in Japan.
France also said it was "ready to answer all the possible stresses that Japan will ask you to cope with this tragedy," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a letter to Prime Minister Naoto Kan. In his message, Sarkozy expressed "support and solidarity" of France to Japan and its people, "in this particularly difficult time." British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to help Japan hit by an earthquake "that makes us be terrible reminder of the destructive forces of nature." Speaking on the margins of the EU summit in Brussels, Cameron said that "everyone should think about that country and its people" and said he had asked his government "to understand what Britain can do to be helpful." The Foreign Office has meanwhile established a dedicated telephone line to the British who have friends and relatives in Japan.
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent a letter to Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, to express his condolences for the victims of the earthquake and to emphasize the closeness of Berlin and Japan. "I learned with dismay the news of the terrible earthquake that shook his country," reads the letter, whose text was published.
"Please send my sincere condolences to the relatives of the victims and my best wishes for recovery to the wounded. You may be sure that Germany is on the side of Japan in these tragic hours and is ready to help. " The Crisis Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the early hours of this morning is in contact with the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo, which, in turn, has set up a crisis cell to contact these Italians in the areas most affected by the earthquake and ensure on their health status and pay, where necessary, assistance.
Meanwhile, the network teams thirty-five UN search and rescue operations in disaster relief are ready to intervene if the Japanese government so requests. , Said in Geneva today the spokesman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Elizabeth Byrs. The UN experts in Geneva are in constant contact with Japan.
The Japanese television reported that the antenna on top of Tokyo Tower, the symbol of Japan's capital and the post-war reconstruction, it is bent due to earthquakes in the afternoon.
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