8.8 Magnitude Earthquake hits Japan, Tsunami warnings have been issued

[PaYaSo]

These 50 workers may be Japan's last chance
updated 2 hours 17 minutes ago 2011-03-16T02:05:11

A small crew of technicians, braving radiation and fire, became the only people remaining at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Tuesday — and perhaps Japan’s last chance of preventing a broader nuclear catastrophe.

They crawl through labyrinths of equipment in utter darkness pierced only by their flashlights, listening for periodic explosions as hydrogen gas escaping from crippled reactors ignites on contact with air.

They breathe through uncomfortable respirators or carry heavy oxygen tanks on their backs. They wear white, full-body jumpsuits with snug-fitting hoods that provide scant protection from the invisible radiation sleeting through their bodies.




50 workers bravely stay at troubled Japan reactors

These 50 workers may be Japan's last chance
NYT: 50 workers bravely stay at troubled Japan reactors - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com

this is a brave act. 50 heads sacrificing themselves for the coutry and even the world. thats heroic... wish i could be one of them though i dont knw anything about nuclear thingy ill just keep the atmosphere lighter for them by making them smile.

headline: 50 workers and a clown saves the world

what ever the outcome of this they are already heroes.kudos to these guys

[samamar21]

a strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan this morning. with the force strong enough to sway buildings in Tokyo.

[AntitaniC]

A sigh of relief for the wrong reasons.

-RODION

that even an advanced country like japan can't contain the explosions?

and trying to situate that here in our inefficient country? I think my initiatives ain't wrong about that fact.

[peewee_toot]

sige na sd linog ngadto sa japan. hahaiz. kanus-a pa mn na mahuman oi... louy na ayu sila...

[HanzoHattori]

Miracles in Japan: Four-Month Old Baby, 70-Year Old Woman Found Alive

Amid the silent corpses a baby cried out - and Japan met its tiniest miracle.

On March 14 soldiers from the Japanese Defense Force were going door-to-door, pulling bodies from homes flattened by the earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki City, a coastal town northeast of Senda. More accustomed to the crunching of rubble and the sloshing of mud than to the sound of life, they dismissed the baby's cry as a mistake. Until they heard it again. (See 7 ways to help earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan.)

They made their way to the pile of debris, and carefully removed fragments of wood and slate, shattered glass and rock. And then they saw her: a four-month old baby girl in a pink woolen bear suit.

The tidal wave literally swept the unnamed girl away from her parents' arms when it hit their home on March 11. Since then her parents - both of whom survived the disaster - have taken refuge in their wrecked house, and worried that their little girl was dead. Soldiers managed to reunite the baby with her overjoyed father shortly after the rescue.

"Her discovery has put a new energy into the search," a civil defense official told a local news crew. "We will listen, look and dig with even more diligence after this." Ahead of the baby's rescue, officials reported finding at least 2,000 bodies washed up on the shoreline of Miyagi prefecture. How the child survived drowning - or being crushed by fallen trees and houses - remains a mystery. (See pictures of the calamity of Japan's quake.)

In a nation short on good news, other rescues have buoyed morale, too. In Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, the devastating tidal wave swept away an elderly woman along with her entire house - but it couldn't extinguish her will to live.

Rescuers found the 70-year-old alive inside her home on March 15, four days after the black tidal wave wiped out much of the region. Osaka fire department spokesman Yuko Kotani told the Associated Press the woman is now receiving treatment in a local hospital. She is conscious but suffering from hypothermia. (See how to tend to Japan's psychological scars.)

Elsewhere, 60-year old Hiromitsu Shinkawa survived two days at sea by clinging on to his floating rooftop. He was discovered 10 miles off the Japanese coastline. "Several helicopters and ships passed but none of them noticed me," he said after his March 13 rescue. "I thought that was going to be the last day of my life." (via Daily Mail)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2011031...fullworldyahoo

[ceprince]

asa ka nga airport mag gikan, Bro? Ikaw nagpili ana nga date or mao ra gud na date na available for now? Pila sad, murag mahal man kaayo gi-presyo sa PAL sa ila online booking 86,000 yen man ang adult one-way for Narita-Cebu.

cebu? lol. then to Narita. nahadlok bitaw ko pero kailangan man nako erenew ako visa palit na lang ko daan potassium iodide ani. one way raman ako gipalit. 17k ang adult kay 37k man tingale to. ako nagpili sa date. wala pa man nag panic or something ang Pal og pwede ra pud daw nako e resched if for incase lang.

[xyberblue]

linug nasad gnha, not sure unsa ka kusga...

[gpcortes07]

linug nasad gnha, not sure unsa ka kusga...

dili na dayon ta maka update sa kay murag ni relax naman ang NHK ug monitor sa crisis. Nangausab na ila TV programming balik na halos sa normal...

[FranZeno]

cebu? lol. then to Narita. nahadlok bitaw ko pero kailangan man nako erenew ako visa palit na lang ko daan potassium iodide ani. one way raman ako gipalit. 17k ang adult kay 37k man tingale to. ako nagpili sa date. wala pa man nag panic or something ang Pal og pwede ra pud daw nako e resched if for incase lang.

usa ra ako masulti ani, potassium iodide will not protect you from radiation..if it ever did protect people from radiation, then radiation suits should not have been invented, instead gikaligo nlng sa mga personnel ang potassium iodide if they were to go into a radiation contaminated area..hehehe..

[gpcortes07]

cebu? lol. then to Narita. nahadlok bitaw ko pero kailangan man nako erenew ako visa palit na lang ko daan potassium iodide ani. one way raman ako gipalit. 17k ang adult kay 37k man tingale to. ako nagpili sa date. wala pa man nag panic or something ang Pal og pwede ra pud daw nako e resched if for incase lang.

ayaw lang kahadlok, safe pa man ang Tokyo sa health risky radiation level sa pagka karon, ubos pa kaayo sa last reported reading....way way lesser pa sa radiation level nga makuha nimo ug chest x-ray so safe pa gyud. Asa ka stay sa Tokyo, maka experience gyud noon ka lisod sa transpo kay putol2x pa biyahe sa train to conserve electricity.