Saturday, March 12, 2011

Japan, the refinery still burning

The smoke that rises from the refinery of Cosmo Ichikawa "The next is the Kansai region," comes the fallout. " The earthquake that shook the eastern Japan still lack reliable information and data are continuously updated. But fear and panic due to the images that you see on television Japanese multiply and make more and more alarming information running on the Internet.

Microblogging sites like Twitter in many urged the authorities to think of the south-central area of \u200b\u200bthe country, Kansai, the tectonic plate which could be affected in the coming days of the quake on Friday. But one of the greatest concern for the residents of Tokyo, Sankei Shimbun recalls, daily national economy, remains the oil refinery at Cosmo Ichikawa in Chiba prefecture, just north of Tokyo.

Heavily damaged by the earthquake, the plant is still burning. "Be careful" read the notices posted on Mixi, the leading social network in Japan, "falls a rain of toxic substances." On the same page came the denials and the information becomes confused. Certainly, as reported by the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, at 21.30 today that the flames of Cosmo are not yet under control and the fire department of the prefecture is about a 30 year old man completely charred by fire and five seriously injured.

In the same area at 1240 local residents were ordered to take shelter in school buildings nearby. But the emergency seems to already have been revoked and the Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edan calls for calm and stop the chain mail with inaccurate information. Alessia Cerantola

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