ROME - An earthquake after another, Japan continues to tremble. After the yesterday's devastating, magnitude 8.9, in the last hour if they are registered at least four of a certain intensity, the first of 6.6 on the Richter scale, the second of 6, a 4.8 and the 'last even 6. All are located in the sea off the east coast.
So far it has not been issued any tsunami warning. The Japanese Meteorological Agency confirms the revocation of the alarm limit for the tsunami across the archipelago, with the tidal waves over three feet, but maintains the warning for those up to that height. After the victims of the earthquake damage and the resulting tsunami, for Japan is the fear of the consequences of the explosion at the nuclear reactor in Fukushima.
The incident happened in one of central Tokyo Electric Power have been injured four workers. The 700 deaths in the official death toll is less than half of what the authorities estimate that as real data, 1800 throughout the country. In addition, there are 50 000 and evacuated about 10,000 people are missing in the port city of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan spoke of "an unprecedented national disaster" and invited people to "stay calm and follow the signs that are spread through the media. Despite the anti-seismic buildings have withstood the shocks, tsunami waves have swept away several coastal villages. The army has discovered between 300 and 400 bodies in the port of Rikuzentakata.
At least 200 more bodies were found on a beach in Sendai, always in Miyagi Prefecture, where the wave was over 10 meters high . Aid. To the rescue plan, the Japanese government has mobilized 50,000 troops and rescue personnel. There are hundreds of ships, aircraft and vehicles on their way to the northeast of the country, where entire neighborhoods were swept away by waves tsunami.
aid from the United States from the international community. The U.S. has made available a fleet, including two aircraft carriers, while the European Commission has activated the Civil Protection Mechanism. China has sent a rescue team, which will start Sunday morning. Meanwhile, another team has already arrived from South Korea sent Fukushima nuclear alert.
After the explosion at the power station in Fukushima at 7:36 am Italian time, Japan has declared an emergency and ordered the evacuation of Atomic for the ten million people living within a radius of 20 km from the reactor number one, the one involved accident. The reactor is also cooled using sea water and TEPCO, the company that operates the plant, said there was no damage to the container and that the mechanism of radiation in the area are decreasing.
But at least three of the ninety people evacuated from near the center are contaminated with radiation. Three people chosen at random among those who waited for help on land nearby. The government is trying to reduce the possibility of a leak of radioactive material, but there are fears the core meltdown of the reactor involved.
That hypothesis is confirmed by the presence of radioactive cesium in the area. According to the agency Kyodo, radioactivity accumulates in an hour that a person close to the reactor is equal to the amount absorbed in the entire year. The authorities have ordered the distribution of iodine for the population as a precautionary measure.
Level 4. The Agency for Nuclear Safety in Japan evaluated the incidence of Fukushima to level 4 on a scale that reaches 7. On the international level, a level 4 incident shows a nuclear reactor accident "with local consequences." For comparison, the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979 in the U.S.
was rated 5, while the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 is rated 7. Any radioactive cloud into the Pacific. The winds would push Japan into the Pacific Ocean to the possible radioactive pollution cloud from the Fukushima plant may emit. The president said the French Nuclear Safety Authority, Andre Claude Lacoste: "It seems that the direction of the winds to the Pacific ports a possible pollution.
Clearly the situation is serious." The French intelligence services, said Lacoste, have at the moment "of information fragmented, incomplete and therefore of poor quality, since our partners are focused on crisis management." In Russia. The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ordered today to review the plans and emergency vehicles in the far east of the country, following the accident in central Fukushima.
"It 'must be checked as carefully as possible the situation throughout the Russian Far East and recheck the availability of all the means provided in such situations," said Putin, who is now also willing to increase the supply of gas for Japan up to 150 thousand tons, which will add even greater transfer of coal.
Assistance will be provided "soon." Japan, said Putin, "it is our close and friendly neighbor, and - despite various problems, we must be reliable partners and do our best to help with energy supplies." 
So far it has not been issued any tsunami warning. The Japanese Meteorological Agency confirms the revocation of the alarm limit for the tsunami across the archipelago, with the tidal waves over three feet, but maintains the warning for those up to that height. After the victims of the earthquake damage and the resulting tsunami, for Japan is the fear of the consequences of the explosion at the nuclear reactor in Fukushima.
The incident happened in one of central Tokyo Electric Power have been injured four workers. The 700 deaths in the official death toll is less than half of what the authorities estimate that as real data, 1800 throughout the country. In addition, there are 50 000 and evacuated about 10,000 people are missing in the port city of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan spoke of "an unprecedented national disaster" and invited people to "stay calm and follow the signs that are spread through the media. Despite the anti-seismic buildings have withstood the shocks, tsunami waves have swept away several coastal villages. The army has discovered between 300 and 400 bodies in the port of Rikuzentakata.
At least 200 more bodies were found on a beach in Sendai, always in Miyagi Prefecture, where the wave was over 10 meters high . Aid. To the rescue plan, the Japanese government has mobilized 50,000 troops and rescue personnel. There are hundreds of ships, aircraft and vehicles on their way to the northeast of the country, where entire neighborhoods were swept away by waves tsunami.
aid from the United States from the international community. The U.S. has made available a fleet, including two aircraft carriers, while the European Commission has activated the Civil Protection Mechanism. China has sent a rescue team, which will start Sunday morning. Meanwhile, another team has already arrived from South Korea sent Fukushima nuclear alert.
After the explosion at the power station in Fukushima at 7:36 am Italian time, Japan has declared an emergency and ordered the evacuation of Atomic for the ten million people living within a radius of 20 km from the reactor number one, the one involved accident. The reactor is also cooled using sea water and TEPCO, the company that operates the plant, said there was no damage to the container and that the mechanism of radiation in the area are decreasing.
But at least three of the ninety people evacuated from near the center are contaminated with radiation. Three people chosen at random among those who waited for help on land nearby. The government is trying to reduce the possibility of a leak of radioactive material, but there are fears the core meltdown of the reactor involved.
That hypothesis is confirmed by the presence of radioactive cesium in the area. According to the agency Kyodo, radioactivity accumulates in an hour that a person close to the reactor is equal to the amount absorbed in the entire year. The authorities have ordered the distribution of iodine for the population as a precautionary measure.
Level 4. The Agency for Nuclear Safety in Japan evaluated the incidence of Fukushima to level 4 on a scale that reaches 7. On the international level, a level 4 incident shows a nuclear reactor accident "with local consequences." For comparison, the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979 in the U.S.
was rated 5, while the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 is rated 7. Any radioactive cloud into the Pacific. The winds would push Japan into the Pacific Ocean to the possible radioactive pollution cloud from the Fukushima plant may emit. The president said the French Nuclear Safety Authority, Andre Claude Lacoste: "It seems that the direction of the winds to the Pacific ports a possible pollution.
Clearly the situation is serious." The French intelligence services, said Lacoste, have at the moment "of information fragmented, incomplete and therefore of poor quality, since our partners are focused on crisis management." In Russia. The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ordered today to review the plans and emergency vehicles in the far east of the country, following the accident in central Fukushima.
"It 'must be checked as carefully as possible the situation throughout the Russian Far East and recheck the availability of all the means provided in such situations," said Putin, who is now also willing to increase the supply of gas for Japan up to 150 thousand tons, which will add even greater transfer of coal.
Assistance will be provided "soon." Japan, said Putin, "it is our close and friendly neighbor, and - despite various problems, we must be reliable partners and do our best to help with energy supplies."
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