Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Japan earthquake

On last Friday night 11th/Mar,
Already I knew my friends and family was safety but could not sleep enough.

Earthquake shakes Japan continued all the night,
most of them were not so big but big one came a few times each hour.

Japanese all TV channels were reporting earthquake news from each place.
On Saturday morning, 12th/Mar, we knew exactly what happened.

On off shore North and Kanto in Japan,
north American plate and pacific ocean plate are facing.

First impact in off shore Miyagi was trigger,
several epicenters waked up same time on extensive,
length around 500km and width 200km, from off shore Miyagi to Ibaraki.

On Saturday morning 12th/Mar,
we got another earthquake, epicenter was Nagano, Niigata area,
seems chain reaction.

Japanese government and press were confusing,
could not understanding exact damage.

Japan have nuclear power plants in Onagawa, Fukushima and Tokai-mura,
Fukushima plant had big damage to reactor.
Fukushima plant have 6 reactors and reactor number one explosion on Saturday morning.

Reactor number one lost outer shield.
(core is protected by 3 shields)

fukushima nuclear

fukushima reactor

nuclear power plant

According to announcement of the government,
redzone is 20km from the power plant,
core was meltdown but still protecting nuclear by shield.

Earthquake shakes Japan continued 24hours,
most of them were not so big but big one came a few times each hour yet.

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