Tsunami, earth quakes and the wave is gigantic and devastating ...
The tsunami of times it never matched with a magnitude of 8.9 degrees, which occurred in the Pacific Ocean to 24.4 km depth about 100 km from the Miyagi prefecture.
Another tremor of 6.6 jolted northwest China with replicas that left thousands dead or missing and affecting the Fukushima nuclear power plant 1, which showed low levels of radioactivity one thousand times the allowable reactor, in northeast Japan.
As a result there has been the scourge of the exodus of people who want to move away from nuclear power plants by growing alarm confirmation of a nuclear disaster, suffering from overheating fusion and cause the release of high amount of radioactivity in spite of pouring water from the sea to cool.
"I think the current situation with the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plants, is in some ways the most serious crisis we face in the last 65 years, after the end of World War II" , said first Minister Naoto Kan. Kan
also recognized that the situation in the Fukushima nuclear plant 1 remains worrying. Earlier, the government admitted that may have triggered a process of merging reactor cores 1 and 3 of that central, located 250 km northeast of Tokyo.
fusion occurs because of overheating of the fuel rods, which begin to melt like a candle.
The No. 1 reactor on Saturday, 12 there was an explosion that killed a technician and injuring eleven. Kan ordered the evacuation of residents within a radius of 20 km, twice the distance set on Friday 13. Some 215,000 people already displaced.
Media said that caused thousands of casualties and material losses millionaires and some unofficial estimates reported by Kyodo news agency, indicated that there would at least 100,000 missing.
News magnitude of devastation is unimaginable that a priori is estimated at U $ S 30 billion.
About 200 bodies of people who probably drowned by the tsunami occurred in the coastal city of Sendai (northeast), Miyagi Prefecture, raising the death toll to 384, while there were 707 missing and 947 injured, that led to Pope Benedict XVI "deeply saddened".
In Sendai, the authorities indicated that a boat was swept away by the tsunami, without further explanation and Television images captured from a helicopter showed cargo ships, cars and tons of materials of all kinds pulled by a giant tidal wave of brown water crashing against the coast.
mudslides also showed the river overflowing Natori and destroying their fields in the coastal area of \u200b\u200bSendai. Na
also caused large explosion was a fire at a petrochemical complex in that city.
The quake struck at 14h46 (05h46 GMT), to 24.4 km deep and a hundred kilometers of the coast of Miyagi Prefecture and 380 km north of Tokyo, according to the Geophysics Institute of America (USGS). It was followed by dozens of aftershocks, including one of magnitude 7.1 and a new quake, of 6.7 was recorded in the West Coast.
U.S. President Barack Obama, announced that an aircraft carrier was headed to the region to assist the homeless and said the quake that Japan suffered is something "just heartbreaking."
Most Pacific countries launched tsunami warnings, to prevent the coast of Mexico, where the phenomenon is a "moderate risk" and threatened to spread to the coasts of Central and South America.
The oil giant will be felt throughout the continent, until at 06H07 GMT on Puerto Williams, on the southern tip of Chile, but this brought no consequences for being more attenuated wave.
Japan's Meteorological Agency warned on Sunday 13 there is a high risk of a replica of magnitude of 7 or more through Wednesday, 16, estimating the probability at 70%, said the director of the agency's earthquake prediction, Takashi Yokota, cited by the media.
The probability gradually decreases and it is 50% from 16 to 18 March.
The aftershocks with a magnitude of 2 to 7 have been incessant since the last few weeks, after major earthquake occurred in Japan, on the northeast coast that yielded more than 10,000 dead.
Japanese authorities declared a state of emergency in a second nuclear plant, that of Onagawa (northeast), announced from Vienna International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In accordance with Japanese regulations, "the alert was declared after registering radioactivity levels exceeding those allowed in the area near the central" said the IAEA.
Nuclear Safety Agency of Japan ranked the number one reactor accident in Fukushima 1 at level four on a scale of 7. The 1979 accident at Three Mile Island (United States) was level 5 and the 1986 Chernobyl (in Ukraine) reached level 7. The aftershocks of earthquakes
so scary as the first, hard to believe they can stop leaving the floor without moving towards a normal in a desolate landscape with desperate people wandering among thousands of corpses that returns the sea overwhelmed by the silence terrifies .
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