TOKYO - A 11 days after the devastation in Japan, the earth continues to tremble. Today at 16:18 am local time (8.18 in Italy) an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 on the Richter scale was recorded off the coast of Honshu. According to reports from the U. S Geological Survey, the epicenter was located at a depth of ten kilometers.
At 18:44 local a second earthquake of magnitude 6.2 was felt especially in the prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima, with an epicenter about 200 kilometers off the coast of Iwate, in the waters of the Pacific. At 17:33 it was the turn of Ibaraki prefecture, where she encounters a shock lighter, with a magnitude of 4.7.
The challenge for Japan is still trying to stabilize the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Meanwhile, the toxic cloud began its long journey around the world. Today is passing on Iceland, where tiny radioactive particles were detected, will fly to France tomorrow and then drops, between tomorrow and later, Italy.
Fukushima. White radioactive steam, probably coming from the pool of spent fuel continues to go from reactors 2 and 3, while the level of radioactivity increased in the area around the implant. Making matters worse was the rain that has fallen over the past two days about the area. The radioactive material has been dropped and has been detected in sea water in the area.
The government spokesman Yukio Edan said that, despite the warning issued yesterday for food, for the moment will not be extended to the "exclusion zone" around the middle. "Plight." The Japanese Minister of Industry, Banro Kaieda, talks about the situation "difficult" while continuing operations at Fukushima reactor cooling.
Water cannons are still off, pending a decision by the TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power, which, however, reassured the public about "progress" in technical progress. China expects un'autopompa has a special arm of 62 meters which will serve to throw more water. According to the agency Kyodo, the external power source is now available for five of the six reactors.
The electricity is expected to start the cooling pumps and win the battle started, it was learned only today, with a wave of high water at least 14 meters. "We have found no trace even in the parking lot, located precisely at a height of 14 meters," said a spokesman for TEPCO. Contamination.
The new, high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium were detected in 47 prefectures including that of Tokyo, 240 miles to the south. In any case, ensure the authorities are not likely to pose a threat to the health of the population. The concentrations of iodine 131 and cesium-134 found in seawater in the area around the facility Tuesday evening were respectively 24.8 times and 126.7 times higher than the maximum level established by the Japanese government.
Traces of cobalt 58, finally, were also detected in a water sample taken near the plant. The Ministry of Science and Technology stated that it endeavors to examine the water within a radius of 10-30 kilometers from the center. Fisheries. The nuclear safety agency has warned Japan's Agriculture Ministry of the possible consequences for the seafood industry.
But the government does not consider at this stage necessary to put restrictions on the sale of fish. The spokesman said the executive Yukio Edan: "At this stage I can not exclude a restriction on future sales. However, at this stage, we are not in such conditions that require it. In any event, we are in a stage where is necessary to collect more data or to continue the analysis of experts.
" Edan has determined, however, concentrations of radioactivity is not likely to cause health effects. And yesterday vessels survived the tsunami are back at sea. The budget. Japan continues to count his victims. 22 000 people are dead or missing. The budget is 9,080 victims in 12 prefectures, while 13,561 are missing.
The Ministry of Education has warned that the number of dead children "will inevitably increase, whereas the amount of missing registered by the authorities. Were damaged and flooded by the tsunami including 5,682 schools in 23 prefectures. 3379 Other schools are closed by the Japanese government.
Of the 8,360 bodies on which the local police has carried out autopsies, only 4,670 have been identified. He then speaks of 270 thousand displaced persons, such as Osaka Prefecture began accepting applications for allocations for social housing that the Japanese government will offer for free.
The economy. On the economic front to record the rise of the Tokyo Stock Exchange: the resumption of trade after the feast of the Equinox, the Nikkei index closed with a progress of 4.36%, the highest of sitting around. The lists were supported by solid gains on Wall Street, but also by advances in the development of safe nuclear power and especially the safety net fielded by the G7 over the weekend to "cool down" the rise of the yen, bring to highs against the dollar.
The Japanese bank has today placed two trillion yen (17 billion euro) on the financial market to support the economy in Japan. This brings to 39 trillion yen (339 billion euro) the total amount released by the bank. The TEPCO announced that compensate businesses affected by the trade ban imposed by the Japanese government, following the leak of radioactive nuclear power plant in Fukushima, which have contaminated the food produced in the vicinity of the plant.
He reports the Financial Times. The insult to the heroes. The Minister of Industry of Japan, Banro Kaieda, apologized today after being accused by the press that he threatened to punish the firemen who were reluctant to intervene in central Fukushima, where the radioactive levels are dangerously high.
"If my words have offended the firemen, then I want to apologize," said the minister. Kaieda has however refused to confirm he had uttered threats attributed to the press. Flights. As Alitalia has "renewed the availability of free places for families and those who find themselves in vulnerable circumstances or state of necessity", as families with children under 15 years old and pregnant women, the Singapore Airlines has announced want to delete one of its four daily flights between Singapore and Tokyo due to a fall in demand after the earthquake.
One of two daily flights to and from Tokyo's Haneda airport were suspended on Sunday, while the service between Singapore and Tokyo Narita Airport is operating normally. The cloud to Italy. Today is about Iceland, tomorrow will be on France, then the effects of radioactive fallout are "expected to Italy, we expect between tomorrow and the day after" but "when there are no absolutely no risk to the people." Who said it was the charge of the Department of Nuclear radiometric ISPRA, Giancarlo Torri.
In Italy to intercept the cloud "systems are the National Network for the monitoring of radioactivity, a network that is always active in all Italian regions. At this morning did not detect any sign of increased radioactivity or on Italy or on ' Europe or risk to the population. Any exposure would be very rapid.
With our tools - concluded Towers - normally measured values from 10 thousand to 100 thousand times smaller than those that could impact the health of people, values that are very low and equal 10 thousand times less than the natural radiation doses. " 
At 18:44 local a second earthquake of magnitude 6.2 was felt especially in the prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima, with an epicenter about 200 kilometers off the coast of Iwate, in the waters of the Pacific. At 17:33 it was the turn of Ibaraki prefecture, where she encounters a shock lighter, with a magnitude of 4.7.
The challenge for Japan is still trying to stabilize the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Meanwhile, the toxic cloud began its long journey around the world. Today is passing on Iceland, where tiny radioactive particles were detected, will fly to France tomorrow and then drops, between tomorrow and later, Italy.
Fukushima. White radioactive steam, probably coming from the pool of spent fuel continues to go from reactors 2 and 3, while the level of radioactivity increased in the area around the implant. Making matters worse was the rain that has fallen over the past two days about the area. The radioactive material has been dropped and has been detected in sea water in the area.
The government spokesman Yukio Edan said that, despite the warning issued yesterday for food, for the moment will not be extended to the "exclusion zone" around the middle. "Plight." The Japanese Minister of Industry, Banro Kaieda, talks about the situation "difficult" while continuing operations at Fukushima reactor cooling.
Water cannons are still off, pending a decision by the TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power, which, however, reassured the public about "progress" in technical progress. China expects un'autopompa has a special arm of 62 meters which will serve to throw more water. According to the agency Kyodo, the external power source is now available for five of the six reactors.
The electricity is expected to start the cooling pumps and win the battle started, it was learned only today, with a wave of high water at least 14 meters. "We have found no trace even in the parking lot, located precisely at a height of 14 meters," said a spokesman for TEPCO. Contamination.
The new, high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium were detected in 47 prefectures including that of Tokyo, 240 miles to the south. In any case, ensure the authorities are not likely to pose a threat to the health of the population. The concentrations of iodine 131 and cesium-134 found in seawater in the area around the facility Tuesday evening were respectively 24.8 times and 126.7 times higher than the maximum level established by the Japanese government.
Traces of cobalt 58, finally, were also detected in a water sample taken near the plant. The Ministry of Science and Technology stated that it endeavors to examine the water within a radius of 10-30 kilometers from the center. Fisheries. The nuclear safety agency has warned Japan's Agriculture Ministry of the possible consequences for the seafood industry.
But the government does not consider at this stage necessary to put restrictions on the sale of fish. The spokesman said the executive Yukio Edan: "At this stage I can not exclude a restriction on future sales. However, at this stage, we are not in such conditions that require it. In any event, we are in a stage where is necessary to collect more data or to continue the analysis of experts.
" Edan has determined, however, concentrations of radioactivity is not likely to cause health effects. And yesterday vessels survived the tsunami are back at sea. The budget. Japan continues to count his victims. 22 000 people are dead or missing. The budget is 9,080 victims in 12 prefectures, while 13,561 are missing.
The Ministry of Education has warned that the number of dead children "will inevitably increase, whereas the amount of missing registered by the authorities. Were damaged and flooded by the tsunami including 5,682 schools in 23 prefectures. 3379 Other schools are closed by the Japanese government.
Of the 8,360 bodies on which the local police has carried out autopsies, only 4,670 have been identified. He then speaks of 270 thousand displaced persons, such as Osaka Prefecture began accepting applications for allocations for social housing that the Japanese government will offer for free.
The economy. On the economic front to record the rise of the Tokyo Stock Exchange: the resumption of trade after the feast of the Equinox, the Nikkei index closed with a progress of 4.36%, the highest of sitting around. The lists were supported by solid gains on Wall Street, but also by advances in the development of safe nuclear power and especially the safety net fielded by the G7 over the weekend to "cool down" the rise of the yen, bring to highs against the dollar.
The Japanese bank has today placed two trillion yen (17 billion euro) on the financial market to support the economy in Japan. This brings to 39 trillion yen (339 billion euro) the total amount released by the bank. The TEPCO announced that compensate businesses affected by the trade ban imposed by the Japanese government, following the leak of radioactive nuclear power plant in Fukushima, which have contaminated the food produced in the vicinity of the plant.
He reports the Financial Times. The insult to the heroes. The Minister of Industry of Japan, Banro Kaieda, apologized today after being accused by the press that he threatened to punish the firemen who were reluctant to intervene in central Fukushima, where the radioactive levels are dangerously high.
"If my words have offended the firemen, then I want to apologize," said the minister. Kaieda has however refused to confirm he had uttered threats attributed to the press. Flights. As Alitalia has "renewed the availability of free places for families and those who find themselves in vulnerable circumstances or state of necessity", as families with children under 15 years old and pregnant women, the Singapore Airlines has announced want to delete one of its four daily flights between Singapore and Tokyo due to a fall in demand after the earthquake.
One of two daily flights to and from Tokyo's Haneda airport were suspended on Sunday, while the service between Singapore and Tokyo Narita Airport is operating normally. The cloud to Italy. Today is about Iceland, tomorrow will be on France, then the effects of radioactive fallout are "expected to Italy, we expect between tomorrow and the day after" but "when there are no absolutely no risk to the people." Who said it was the charge of the Department of Nuclear radiometric ISPRA, Giancarlo Torri.
In Italy to intercept the cloud "systems are the National Network for the monitoring of radioactivity, a network that is always active in all Italian regions. At this morning did not detect any sign of increased radioactivity or on Italy or on ' Europe or risk to the population. Any exposure would be very rapid.
With our tools - concluded Towers - normally measured values from 10 thousand to 100 thousand times smaller than those that could impact the health of people, values that are very low and equal 10 thousand times less than the natural radiation doses. "
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