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New Tsunami Alert in Japan
Fukushima nuclear power plant second nuclear reactor explosion – Video
Japan Earthquake Person Finder
Earthquake in Japan triggers Tsunami – Video

New Tsunami Alert in Japan

Posted on 07/04 by Andy Roberts

After a new 7.4 strong earthquake at sea near Japan, there’s a tsunami alert out with a possible 2 metre wave already formed.

Workers trying to bring the stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima under control have already been evacuated.

Tsunami warnings and advice have been issued for a stretch of more than 482km of the northeastern coast from Aomori prefecture in the north to Ibaraki prefecture in central Japan, just north of Tokyo.

Hundreds of aftershocks have shaken the northeast region devastated by the March 11 earthquake, but few have been stronger than 7.0 on the logarithmic richter scale.

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Fukushima nuclear power plant second nuclear reactor explosion – Video

Posted on 14/03 by Andy Roberts

A second nuclear reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has exploded, and another nuclear core has lost it’s cooling system. A third explosion may follow Friday’s historic earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan.

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Japan Earthquake Person Finder

Posted on 11/03 by Andy Roberts

Here’s the person finder application set up by Google for the Japanese earthquake

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Earthquake in Japan triggers Tsunami – Video

Posted on 11/03 by Andy Roberts

Guardian video of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

At 8.8 magnitude on the richter scale, this is the big one.

RT video reports of the Tsunami and Earthquake in Japan

BBC live coverage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

A 10 metre high wave has swept ashore flooding buildings and farmlands.

A Tsunami alert is out for the Philipines, Taiwan, Russia and Hawaii.

The major earthquake off Japan’s north-eastern coast has triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific.

The Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii has widened its original alert to include Hawaii and the rest of the Pacific Ocean.

Alerts were issued as far apart as Australia and New Zealand, Mexico and Central and South America, the Philippines and Taiwan, off the Chinese mainland.

Any tsunami would take several hours to travel across 3,800 miles of ocean from Japan to Hawaii.

The estimated time of arrival was put at around 1pm UK time.