2011 Japanese Crisis

Posted by: Asian Culture Club on: March 11, 2011

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We hope that the people of Japan make it through this disaster safely.

Please visit BBC’s page on the events in Japan for more information.

The videos below provide visual summaries of the latest events in Japan, the latest videos being at the bottom of the post. They are all provided by the Associated Press’ YouTube page.

 

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[Update]

-Japanese paused at the one-week mark following the monster earthquake and ensuing tsunami as the death toll continued its steady climb to 6,911, the National Police Agency reported. Another 10,316 people are missing.

-One of the worst-hit areas was the port city of Sendai.
-A large explosion has occurred at the Fukushima-Daiichi – or Fukushima I – nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan, close to the epicentre of Friday’s earthquake.  

-42 survivors have been pulled out of the rubble

 

-Third explosion reported, 3 cooling systems failing, 3 meltdowns can’t be ruled out, 1 spent fuel pool boiled over.

 

-No matter how much radioactive material is released, the worrisome isotopes from the Fukushima Daiichi facility are not particularly likely to follow a Chernobyl-scale distribution, Clanton notes. Even if the fuel temperatures fail to drop significantly, it is unlikely to produce the type of catastrophic explosion that launched so much radioactive material into the atmosphere over Chernobyl 25 years ago. The material at Fukushima also lacks the graphite bars that were elemental in dispersing the isotopes from the Chernobyl explosion.

 

-Region hit by hundreds of aftershocks, some up to 6.8-magnitude

-Rescue operation begins but some areas still cut off by road damage and flood waters

-70,000 people evacuated to shelters in Sendai

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If you would like to help, please take a look at some of the sites below.

Global Giving: Donate or Text

Linkin Park: Disaster Relief T-Shirts by Mike Shinoda

Lady Gaga: Japanese Tsunami Relief Wristband

Red Cross: Donate or Text

Save The Children: Donate

Salvation Army: Donate or Text

All of these sites have declared that 100% percent of the proceeds will go to relief for Japan.

 

 

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