Several aftershocks in the day, but within the alarm for waves over three feet. The budget is not official death toll - 1800 - more than twice those found by the authorities. The Tokyo government sends resources in affected areas, also active on the international community. In the central area of \u200b\u200bthe detected three cases of radiation contamination, there are fears the merger of the core
A shock after another, Japan continues to tremble. After the yesterday's devastating, magnitude 8.9, in the last hour if they are registered at least 3: one of 6.6 on the Richter scale, the second of six and the last of 4.8. 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. To these are added the 50 000 evacuated and 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 to shocks, tsunami waves have swept several locations
coast. 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 Prefecture Miyagi, where the wave was over 10 feet tall.
Aid. For the rescue plan, the Japanese government has mobilized 50,000 troops and rescue personnel. Hundreds of ships, aircraft and vehicles on their way to the northeast of the country, where entire neighborhoods were swept away by the waves of the 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 also sent a rescue team, which will start on Sunday morning. Meanwhile, it is already got another team sent from South Korea
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, that affected by the 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 by the proximity of the plant 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. 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." By 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. 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 the middle of Fukushima. "E ' should be monitored as closely as possible the situation around the Russian Far East and recheck the availability of all the means provided for in these 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 . Support 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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