Japan: EARTHQUAKE - TSUNAMI Updates
Japanese Officials Estimate Death Toll More Than 10,000 -
NOW a Volcano Erupts...
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Last updated at 06:15pm CDT
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About above image: Tsunami Wave Height Model Shows Pacific-Wide Impact Model runs from the Center for Tsunami Research at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory show the expected wave heights of the tsunami as it travels across the Pacific basin.
Image credit: NOAA
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* CTV News brings us the following update and their report starts off like this... Japanese officials raised the estimated death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country's northeast to more than 10,000 Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of survivors salvaged what belongings they could and sought food and water at emergency centres... Friday's quake and tsunami damaged key nuclear plants and left entire cities demolished in their wake. Police in the northeastern Miyagi prefecture, one of the worst affected by the disaster, estimated Sunday that more than 10,000 people had been killed in the region, which is home to about 2.3 million people. So far, the number of confirmed dead is 1,400, which includes about 200 bodies that were found along the coast on Sunday. But thousands more are still missing...
Read the full report at link below...
Awesome, raw video footage at above link, photos too...
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* AP brings us this take on the economy hit to Japan... The Bank of Japan stood ready to prop up the financial system amid fears the Tokyo stock market will nosedive when trading opens Monday following the disasters that killed thousands and devastated the country's northeast... Preliminary estimates put repair costs from the earthquake and tsunami in the tens of billions of dollars — a huge blow for an economy that lost its place as the world's No. 2 to China last year, and was already in a fragile state...
Read the rest at link below...
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* CNN Reports...
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Mount Shinmoedake Volcano
Earthquakes, tsunami, near nuclear power plant meltdowns too... as though the people of Japan didn't have enough to cope with... NOW a volcano begins to erupt this Sunday, sending hundreds of folks running...
This video posted on YouTube by hitosi49
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Videos:
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Here’s some raw video footage I found on the BBC.co.uk website that shows Friday's tsunami sweeping through Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture, north-eastern Japan...
Click it out at link below...
- LOTS of videos can be seen of Friday’s tsunami at above link -
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Japan Races to Avert Multiple Nuclear Meltdowns
About this News Video: Japan's nuclear crisis intensified Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns and more than 170,000 people evacuated the northeastern coast where fears spread over possible radioactive contamination. (March 13th)
This video posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress
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More to come...
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