8.9 Earthquake hits Japan, creates massive tsunami

[heroizumi]

Thanks guys! My fingers hurt T^T The paper is drying my fingers out and I've only made 38 (took a break, now I need to cut more paper lol)

*edit*
Oh and I wanted to mention I posted a Super Hero Time widget on my toku-LJ ^__^

 

[Mr. Yellow]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2beQNZvgAio&feature=related"]YouTube - Help Japan![/ame]

I get frustrated and upset with this fandom sometimes, but man the outreach and outpouring is incredible.

We're at $2,642.20 currently!

 

[Darkster]

Here are paper cutters that can be delivered by Tuesday: http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=490584011

If you need them.

Amazon Prime: http://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&no...s-20&hvadid=5599454477&ref=pd_sl_69miv1n5l7_b

For students. It should help you get them faster with less shipping costs.

 

[The Black Sun]

I've been watching every news report on this, terrible but I know Japan will pull through.

This info may be irrelevant but on CNN a small tibit went out saying that the quake actually moved the country 8 feet west. Not too much but that is pretty crazy.

 

[GekiDan]

I just made a thread in Gametrailers about this situation here, & I just got to laugh at this first reply.

I completely support the idea of helping tragedy stricken Japanese people, but that site you posted is kinda weird way to ask for help. Power rangers? seriously?

LOL.

I only read bad responses.

 

[Mr. Yellow]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYLeGF067CY&feature=related"]YouTube - SuperHeroTime Japan Relief Fund[/ame]

 

[nerefir]

Hiroshi Fujioka is streaming music.

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Finally we hear from Shigeki Hosokawa.
http://ameblo.jp/shigeki-hosokawa/entry-10829599332.html

 

[Mr. Yellow]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45VnMHAm66g"]YouTube - Help Japan - Super Hero Time Japan Relief Fund[/ame]

 

[Dami-chan]

Miyagi police chief estimates over 10,000 deaths


SENDAI — The death toll from Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern and eastern Japan will likely exceed tens of thousands, the Miyagi police chief said Sunday.

Naoto Takeuchi, head of the prefectural police, told a meeting to deal with the crisis that ‘‘I have no doubt’’ the toll will rise that high in Miyagi Prefecture alone, the hardest-hit region.

The number of people who had died or remained unaccounted for exceeded 2,000, police said, while the official death toll neared 800. In Fukushima Prefecture alone, 1,167 were unaccounted for and well over 600 corpses had been found in both Iwate and Miyagi prefectures on the Pacific coast.

In Miyagi, about 200 dead bodies were newly found in the city of Higashimatsushima, the National Police Agency said.

About 4,400 people remained isolated as of Saturday night in schools, hospitals and inns in the tsunami-swamped town of Onagawa and neighboring Ishinomaki city, as well as at the Onagawa nuclear plant where they had been evacuated to, Miyagi officials said.

In Minamisanriku, about 10,000 people, over half the town’s population, remain unaccounted for.

In Iwate Prefecture, north of Miyagi, many corpses were found Sunday morning under the rubble in Rikuzentakata. About 5,000 houses in the city had been submerged by the quake-triggered tsunami, and the city office has confirmed that only 5,900 of its population of about 23,000 had taken shelter.

The prefectural government said it was still unable to contact 1,167 residents, including 918 in the town of Namiem, boosting the tally of those unaccounted for in its latest data.

It also has been unable to communicate with the mayor and officials in Otsuchi after the town office was swept away by a tsunami while the mayor and town officials were apparently inside the building. A nursing home accommodating 30 elderly people was also washed away in Ofunato city.

Helicopters from the Maritime Self-Defense Force sent to check the extent of damage spotted wood fires at seven places in Miyako city early Sunday, the Defense Agency said.

Communication failures also were found to have extended further. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp said 475,400 fiber-optic services were disconnected as of 6 a.m., up 76,500 from 8 p.m. Saturday, in addition to 879,500 subscribed phone lines that remain out of service in areas centering on Iwate and Miyagi.

Local governments have been unable to contact tens of thousands of people, and at least 20,820 buildings have been fully or partially damaged in quake-hit areas, according to local officials and a tally by the national governments.

Meanwhile, earlier Sunday, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) notified the government’s nuclear safety agency that the radiation level at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant exceeded the legal limit, after reporting earlier in the day that the sixth reactor at its two Fukushima plants had lost its cooling functions.

TEPCO said that the hourly radiation level at the site was measured at 882 micro sievert, in excess of the allowable level of 500.

The utility supplier notified the government early Sunday morning that the reactor had lost the ability to cool the reactor core. The reactor is now in the process of releasing radioactive steam, according to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano.

It was the sixth reactor overall at the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 plants to undergo cooling failure since the massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Japan on Friday.

The disaster raised fears of radioactive leaks from the plants after cooling systems there were hampered, most seriously at the No. 1 reactor.

An explosion Saturday at the No. 1 plant blew away the roof and the walls of the building housing the No. 1 reactor’s container.

The government and nuclear authorities said there was no damage to the steel container housing the troubled No. 1 reactor, noting that the blast occurred as vapor from the container turned into hydrogen and mixed with outside oxygen.

TEPCO has begun new cooling operations to fill the reactor with sea water and pour in boric acid to prevent an occurrence of criticality. Edano said in a press conference Sunday morning that there had been no major changes in the results of radioactivity monitoring near the No. 1 reactor.

Following the explosion, the authorities expanded from 10 kilometers to 20 km the radius of the evacuation area for residents living in the vicinity of the Fukushima plants.

At the Fukushima No. 1 plant, one of the reactors partially melted Saturday and operations to fill the reactor with sea water for emergency cooling continued Sunday to prevent an occurrence of criticality, but at least 22 people are known to have been exposed to radiation near the plant.

The magnitude for the devastating quake was revised upward Sunday from 8.8 to 9.0, one of the largest recorded in the world, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/...rd-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant-4-injured-tepco

 

[GekiDan]

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