Japan earthquake

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3rd & 7 37yd

explosion + tsunami in the same time! This can't be worse!

発信者 marshall banana 3/14/2011 2:30:01 AM
@Chris : Thanks for the link. I like both :)

発信者 guyco 3/14/2011 2:30:42 AM
@guessinggame: fuel being stored in large water basins. cooling necessary, but not that crucial. => "fairly safe".

発信者 jennico 3/14/2011 2:30:46 AM
BBC is reporting Tepco says there were two explosions at #3.

発信者 guessinggame 3/14/2011 2:31:00 AM
Oh no 2 reactors having big problems. Hope the seawater and boric acid solve the problem. Glad to hear others are doing better. Hope they can get the tsunamis to stop and get the diesel generators back up and running.

発信者 Walter J 3/14/2011 2:31:19 AM
OMG- Hachinohe is near Rokkasho facility. Just ordered evacuated.

発信者 guessinggame 3/14/2011 2:31:22 AM
Twitter says explosion at unit 3. Confirmation anywhere?

発信者 Elise 3/14/2011 2:31:26 AM
0220: Sea level has dropped five metres off Fukushima, confirming imminent arrival of tsunami - Japanese TV. (BBC) www.bbc.co.uk

発信者 Chris 3/14/2011 2:31:28 AM
Our FOX News is stating an estimated 10-Foot Tsunami is reportedly seen off Japan by a helicopter???

発信者 USA Guy 3/14/2011 2:31:37 AM
1000 dead bodies found in Ojika in prefecture Miyagi: Kyodo

発信者 jennico 3/14/2011 2:31:40 AM
0218: Column of smoke escaping from Reactor 3 at the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant - Japanese TV. www.bbc.co.uk

発信者 worried for family 3/14/2011 2:31:45 AM
BREAKING NEWS: Tsunami feared to reach Pacific coast in northeastern Japan in minutes (11:08) FROM Kyodo website

発信者 guyco 3/14/2011 2:31:55 AM
More confirmations here english.kyodonews.jp

発信者 Chris 3/14/2011 2:32:42 AM
Smoke Column escaping from reactor 3 at Fukushima #1 !!! (from BBC new live feed)

発信者 marshall banana 3/14/2011 2:32:45 AM
NHK is reporting that there is no tsunami. Seems it was a false alarm.

発信者 yebisupost 3/14/2011 2:33:42 AM
www.jma.go.jp confirms no tsunami. false alarm. things are tense there. @Reuters any news on reactor 3?

発信者 Chris 3/14/2011 2:35:16 AM
Complete confusion, NHK saying no tsunami, Coast Guard saying 15 ft wave seen via helicopter (CNN)

発信者 Red 3/14/2011 2:35:24 AM
CNN is reporting that the tsunami may be 5 minutes away

発信者 Steven 3/14/2011 2:35:28 AM
bbc said the source of tsunami sighting was a helicopter pilot

発信者 Fatsam 3/14/2011 2:35:31 AM
Explosion was unlikely to have been at reactor core container: JIJI news agency.

発信者 Suzanne Urpecz 3/14/2011 2:35:37 AM
Column of smoke escaping from Reactor 3 at the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant - Japanese TV. www.bbc.co.uk

発信者 Steven 3/14/2011 2:35:45 AM
White smoke from no1 reactor NHK

発信者 Jan 3/14/2011 2:35:50 AM
CNN saying police in Sendai are telling people to get to higher ground

発信者 Steven 3/14/2011 2:36:47 AM
Watching Reactor 3 now on NHK. There looks to be rubble; perhaps greater damage than the hydrogen explosion on Reactor 1.

発信者 JBID 3/14/2011 2:37:21 AM
cnn tv: massive destruction reactor #3, more destruction than #1

発信者 jennico 3/14/2011 2:38:48 AM
Tsunami observed off Fukushima Pref. (11:17) --- Kyodo World News website

発信者 guyco 3/14/2011 2:38:51 AM
From Kyodo News

発信者 Red 3/14/2011 2:39:45 AM
# NEWS ADVISORY: People within 20 km of Fukushima plant ordered to be inside buildings (11:31)
# NEWS ADVISORY: Tsunami forecast in Iwate, Fukushima prefectures: disaster minister (11:29)
# BREAKING NEWS: Residents near nuke plants ordered to be inside buildings (11:24)
# BREAKING NEWS: Hydrogen blast occurs at Fukushima nuke plant's No. 3 reactor: agency (11:22)
# BREAKING NEWS: Tsunami observed off Fukushima Pref. (11:17)

発信者 Red 3/14/2011 2:39:50 AM
Tokyo government orders checks for radioactivity levels: Kyodo.

発信者 Suzanne Urpecz 3/14/2011 2:40:02 AM
Fox News is reporting a landslide may have created the tsunami

発信者 NHK 3/14/2011 2:41:18 AM
there was another explosion at the nuclear powerplant

発信者 jon 3/14/2011 2:41:24 AM
Hachinohe city is recommending evacuation? Anyone else hearing this?

発信者 Solstice 3/14/2011 2:41:36 AM
(Kyodo News) Evacuation order issued in Hachinohe. Anybody knows why?

発信者 Amaltea 3/14/2011 2:42:00 AM
Can't the US send a few Super Carriers to the nuke plants, and use the ships Nuke power plants to power the cooling systems so they can cool the damn things off!???

発信者 JasonnWarren 3/14/2011 2:42:18 AM
I'm not understanding the seawater process. If there is any leak to the floor or anywhere, what will prevent groundwater (thus birds, animals, runoff, plants, food) from being contaminated? In the air is the least of the problems if you ruin the ground, no? (I'm a meteorologist, not a nuclear physicist so unaware of much of what goes on ..)

発信者 Matt Powers 3/14/2011 2:42:32 AM
NHK says there may be a possibility of a massive radioactive leak.

発信者 Dennis Meyers 3/14/2011 2:42:41 AM
Edano: Just as with the first reactor, radiation levels have raised.

発信者 JBID 3/14/2011 2:42:49 AM
We don't know if the damage is any worse than the Reactor 1 hydrogen explosion - it just looks worse. But it may have been that the R1 explosion was so powerful that it completely cleaned house, and this explosion was not quite as potent. Just speculation.

発信者 JBID 3/14/2011 2:42:50 AM
I go away from Reuters to get some shopping coming back and all hell has broken loose at no.3 reactor ... i pray people there are ok.

発信者 Daily 3/14/2011 2:42:57 AM
NHK says there may be a possibility of a massive radioactive leak.

発信者 Dennis Meyers 3/14/2011 2:43:20 AM
Bearing in mind that this reactor is a MOX core and 2x more powerful. This is not good

発信者 Chris 3/14/2011 2:43:57 AM
www3.nhk.or.jp

発信者 Scott 3/14/2011 2:44:01 AM
Live broadcast in English

発信者 Scott 3/14/2011 2:44:03 AM
Edano: Water injection with boric acid is still under way.

発信者 JBID 3/14/2011 2:44:12 AM
Some 2,000 bodies found on quake-hit Miyagi's coastal areas english.kyodonews.jp

発信者 guyco 3/14/2011 2:44:57 AM