The day after the largest earthquake in Japan that has suffered more than 140 years, a tembor 8.9 magnitude on the Richter scale that caused a giant tsunami, with waves that reached 10 meters high, the Asian country still reeling from catastrophe, dump in the search for survivors and taking stock of the tragedy.
Tokyo back to normal gradually, between the ribs to the aftershocks of the earthquake and the fear that the city could run out of power after the explosion that has affected the Fukushima nuclear plant. Many citizens were forced to spend the night in the city after the earthquake, completely filling the hotel rooms (some spent the night at his place of work), so just this morning able to begin returning to their homes.
Service in the subway and railway lines south of the city are reviving, but the north remain closed. They also remain closed 13 airports in the north. Japanese media estimate that the final number of victims will exceed 1,600 in at least nine provinces. AFP reports that the authorities have found 300 to 400 bodies in a coastal city Rikuzentakata (in the northwest), destroyed by the tsunami following the earthquake yesterday.
For now, the latest figures provided by the police put the death toll at 703. The official toll stands at 784 also missing, and police say further that at least 991 people were injured. It is feared that the death toll could increase as the hours go past. More than 215,000 people have been evacuated, according to AFP.
New replicas This morning (Spanish time, noon in Japan) a new tremor, this time with its epicenter in Tokyo, has shaken the Japanese capital. The reply of 4.3 in the Richter scale, is the first centered in the Tokyo region. Since the great earthquake of yesterday have happened about 150 aftershocks of varying intensity.
These new aftershocks have left the streets of the capital of Japan virtually deserted. Normality has returned to the communications and transport system after yesterday phones do not work and that the suspension of the Tokyo subway and commuter trains forced many thousands of people to sleep in makeshift shelters and pavilions, schools or their own offices.
Still, there are still consequences of chaos and not all supermarkets are so supplied. Toyota has announced that it will open its plants in Japan on Monday to ensure the safety of its employees, as noted by the direction of the auto giant through a statement. Country frozen wall of water unleashed by the quake devastated coastal towns northwest of the archipelago.
Boats, burning farms, cars, trees and a lump of debris were washed ashore miles inland. On another front, more than 45,000 people are being evacuated from the vicinity of two nuclear plants that have turned the "emergence of nuclear energy." The quake has left without electricity to millions of people and in Tokyo, rail and flights in two airports were partially suspended, causing chaos in this metropolis of 30 million souls and forced hundreds of thousands of citizens seek temporary shelter in sports halls and offices.
Flights at Narita airport, the chief of Tokyo, were also disrupted for hours. Both the U.S. and the European Union countries have offered to Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, his support for rescue and reconstruction. All available resources in the Army have been mobilized to assist in rescue efforts, especially in the provinces of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, the hardest hit.
However rescue teams have not really been reaching areas most affected by rising waters, since the tsunami alert is still in force. In the early hours of the day in the country, Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, was released in a helicopter to fly over the affected areas from the air and control the situation in which the country finds itself, and visit Fukushima step, the area where nuclear energy has been unleashed.
Returning to his office, said that the damage caused by the earthquake are "enormous" and that today is a crucial day in the rescue of victims, an operation in which 50,000 people will work, as reported Kyodo news agency. A few hours in which the government met in an extraordinary way to analyze the nuclear alarm generated.
Hours before the prime minister had described as "serious" damage caused by the quake in a public hearing after the earthquake. Naoto Kan has also asked the public calm, assuring that his administration will make "every effort to minimize the damage" and announced the creation of an emergency working group to manage the situation.
Government spokesman Yukio Edan, said meanwhile that the government is behaving under the assumption that this was the worst earthquake in Japan's history. Edan has also asked people to remain alert to the numerous aftershocks and tsunami caused by the quake, which has been ordered to evacuate coastal areas at risk.
State nuclear emergency Around four million households are without electricity in six provinces, while the scenes of fires occur in many homes and industrial facilities. With the quake, 11 nuclear power plants have automatically stopped its activity, following the security protocol. The quake has directly affected the central Onagawa and Fukushima-Daiichi, where there have been two separate fires.
Although the government says there have been no leaks, has been forced to declare a state of "nuclear energy emergency" because the latter had problems to cool a reactor. This implies a possible flight risk, as experts have warned the Government has acknowledged. Apparently, a security committee, has found radiation levels 1,000 times higher than normal, the agency said Kyodio.
About 45,000 people have been evacuated from the area around the central Fukushima-Daiichi, about 240 kilometers north of Tokyo. The problem has been that a power failure stopped the system that pumps water to cool the reactor. As several reactors of the two plants have begun to pressure levels too high, what has been relieved in a controlled releasing radioactive steam.
The fires of nuclear plants has been no exception. According to Kyodo, there were at least 97 fires around the country, with the arrival of the night, television pictures clearly showed numerous fires among the tangle of debris, cars and crumbling houses that have left the tremor and tsunami on the northeast coast.
The Spanish "well" "Everything has been shaken violently in my room," said Javier Izaguirre El Pais, a Spanish student living in Tokyo. "The stairs were moving violently from side to side, opened cracks along the stairs and small debris falling," he told El Pais also Paco Pinillos, a Spanish resident of Madrid who is traveling in Japan, and that when the strong quake was in the subway.
As reported by EFE, the Embassy of Spain in Japan has confirmed that all the Spanish residents in China are "good." The three family members who were unaccounted for are currently in Peru. The Internet search engine Google has made available to users with a search of people to contact the people who are now in Japan.
Available in English and Japanese. Tsunami warning in the Pacific Tsunami waves caused by the devastating earthquake in Japan arrived this morning (Spanish time) with less force than expected to the Pacific coast of America. The waves generated by the tsunami swept away Japan five curious on the west coast of the USA who came to see first hand the announced arrival of the tsunami, ignoring the instructions of the authorities.
The hypocenter of this earthquake was located at a depth of 24 kilometers under the Pacific Ocean, 130 kilometers from the Ojika peninsula, in the same area two days ago there was another earthquake of magnitude 7.3 caused no damage. The quake occurred at 14.46 local time (of 6.46, Spanish CET) and reached the highest magnitude 7 on the Japanese scale, which focuses on the affected areas rather than the intensity of the tremor.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, one of the global reference, the quake had a magnitude of 8.9 on the Richter scale, the highest recorded in Japan since measurements began 140 years ago. The tsunami brought yesterday to remember that swept across the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 struck a dozen countries and killed more than 230,000 dead.
The worst earthquake in Japan earlier in 1923 occurred in the Great Kanto in the Tokyo area. Had a magnitude of 8.3 and killed 143,000 people. Which occurred in Kobe in 1996 caused 6,400 fatalities. Damage amounted to 100,000 billion, making him then the costliest natural disaster in history.
The economic damage from the tsunami of 2004 amounted to 10,000 million dollars, affecting less developed countries. The earthquakes and tsunami warnings are part of everyday life in Japan. The archipelago suffers about 20% of earthquakes of magnitude exceeding 6 produced in the world. The archipelago lies in the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of areas prone to earthquakes and riddled with volcanoes, which recorded 90% of the world's earthquakes. 
Tokyo back to normal gradually, between the ribs to the aftershocks of the earthquake and the fear that the city could run out of power after the explosion that has affected the Fukushima nuclear plant. Many citizens were forced to spend the night in the city after the earthquake, completely filling the hotel rooms (some spent the night at his place of work), so just this morning able to begin returning to their homes.
Service in the subway and railway lines south of the city are reviving, but the north remain closed. They also remain closed 13 airports in the north. Japanese media estimate that the final number of victims will exceed 1,600 in at least nine provinces. AFP reports that the authorities have found 300 to 400 bodies in a coastal city Rikuzentakata (in the northwest), destroyed by the tsunami following the earthquake yesterday.
For now, the latest figures provided by the police put the death toll at 703. The official toll stands at 784 also missing, and police say further that at least 991 people were injured. It is feared that the death toll could increase as the hours go past. More than 215,000 people have been evacuated, according to AFP.
New replicas This morning (Spanish time, noon in Japan) a new tremor, this time with its epicenter in Tokyo, has shaken the Japanese capital. The reply of 4.3 in the Richter scale, is the first centered in the Tokyo region. Since the great earthquake of yesterday have happened about 150 aftershocks of varying intensity.
These new aftershocks have left the streets of the capital of Japan virtually deserted. Normality has returned to the communications and transport system after yesterday phones do not work and that the suspension of the Tokyo subway and commuter trains forced many thousands of people to sleep in makeshift shelters and pavilions, schools or their own offices.
Still, there are still consequences of chaos and not all supermarkets are so supplied. Toyota has announced that it will open its plants in Japan on Monday to ensure the safety of its employees, as noted by the direction of the auto giant through a statement. Country frozen wall of water unleashed by the quake devastated coastal towns northwest of the archipelago.
Boats, burning farms, cars, trees and a lump of debris were washed ashore miles inland. On another front, more than 45,000 people are being evacuated from the vicinity of two nuclear plants that have turned the "emergence of nuclear energy." The quake has left without electricity to millions of people and in Tokyo, rail and flights in two airports were partially suspended, causing chaos in this metropolis of 30 million souls and forced hundreds of thousands of citizens seek temporary shelter in sports halls and offices.
Flights at Narita airport, the chief of Tokyo, were also disrupted for hours. Both the U.S. and the European Union countries have offered to Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, his support for rescue and reconstruction. All available resources in the Army have been mobilized to assist in rescue efforts, especially in the provinces of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, the hardest hit.
However rescue teams have not really been reaching areas most affected by rising waters, since the tsunami alert is still in force. In the early hours of the day in the country, Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, was released in a helicopter to fly over the affected areas from the air and control the situation in which the country finds itself, and visit Fukushima step, the area where nuclear energy has been unleashed.
Returning to his office, said that the damage caused by the earthquake are "enormous" and that today is a crucial day in the rescue of victims, an operation in which 50,000 people will work, as reported Kyodo news agency. A few hours in which the government met in an extraordinary way to analyze the nuclear alarm generated.
Hours before the prime minister had described as "serious" damage caused by the quake in a public hearing after the earthquake. Naoto Kan has also asked the public calm, assuring that his administration will make "every effort to minimize the damage" and announced the creation of an emergency working group to manage the situation.
Government spokesman Yukio Edan, said meanwhile that the government is behaving under the assumption that this was the worst earthquake in Japan's history. Edan has also asked people to remain alert to the numerous aftershocks and tsunami caused by the quake, which has been ordered to evacuate coastal areas at risk.
State nuclear emergency Around four million households are without electricity in six provinces, while the scenes of fires occur in many homes and industrial facilities. With the quake, 11 nuclear power plants have automatically stopped its activity, following the security protocol. The quake has directly affected the central Onagawa and Fukushima-Daiichi, where there have been two separate fires.
Although the government says there have been no leaks, has been forced to declare a state of "nuclear energy emergency" because the latter had problems to cool a reactor. This implies a possible flight risk, as experts have warned the Government has acknowledged. Apparently, a security committee, has found radiation levels 1,000 times higher than normal, the agency said Kyodio.
About 45,000 people have been evacuated from the area around the central Fukushima-Daiichi, about 240 kilometers north of Tokyo. The problem has been that a power failure stopped the system that pumps water to cool the reactor. As several reactors of the two plants have begun to pressure levels too high, what has been relieved in a controlled releasing radioactive steam.
The fires of nuclear plants has been no exception. According to Kyodo, there were at least 97 fires around the country, with the arrival of the night, television pictures clearly showed numerous fires among the tangle of debris, cars and crumbling houses that have left the tremor and tsunami on the northeast coast.
The Spanish "well" "Everything has been shaken violently in my room," said Javier Izaguirre El Pais, a Spanish student living in Tokyo. "The stairs were moving violently from side to side, opened cracks along the stairs and small debris falling," he told El Pais also Paco Pinillos, a Spanish resident of Madrid who is traveling in Japan, and that when the strong quake was in the subway.
As reported by EFE, the Embassy of Spain in Japan has confirmed that all the Spanish residents in China are "good." The three family members who were unaccounted for are currently in Peru. The Internet search engine Google has made available to users with a search of people to contact the people who are now in Japan.
Available in English and Japanese. Tsunami warning in the Pacific Tsunami waves caused by the devastating earthquake in Japan arrived this morning (Spanish time) with less force than expected to the Pacific coast of America. The waves generated by the tsunami swept away Japan five curious on the west coast of the USA who came to see first hand the announced arrival of the tsunami, ignoring the instructions of the authorities.
The hypocenter of this earthquake was located at a depth of 24 kilometers under the Pacific Ocean, 130 kilometers from the Ojika peninsula, in the same area two days ago there was another earthquake of magnitude 7.3 caused no damage. The quake occurred at 14.46 local time (of 6.46, Spanish CET) and reached the highest magnitude 7 on the Japanese scale, which focuses on the affected areas rather than the intensity of the tremor.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, one of the global reference, the quake had a magnitude of 8.9 on the Richter scale, the highest recorded in Japan since measurements began 140 years ago. The tsunami brought yesterday to remember that swept across the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 struck a dozen countries and killed more than 230,000 dead.
The worst earthquake in Japan earlier in 1923 occurred in the Great Kanto in the Tokyo area. Had a magnitude of 8.3 and killed 143,000 people. Which occurred in Kobe in 1996 caused 6,400 fatalities. Damage amounted to 100,000 billion, making him then the costliest natural disaster in history.
The economic damage from the tsunami of 2004 amounted to 10,000 million dollars, affecting less developed countries. The earthquakes and tsunami warnings are part of everyday life in Japan. The archipelago suffers about 20% of earthquakes of magnitude exceeding 6 produced in the world. The archipelago lies in the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of areas prone to earthquakes and riddled with volcanoes, which recorded 90% of the world's earthquakes.
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