Major Earthquake N Japan - Pacific Tsunami Warning

[Craig 6682]

Fucking hell, they don't need another one. Poor bastards

[@yourservice 67]

Those plates are putting in a shift.

[ChezGiven 0]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/14/lost-n...mainland-spain/

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

Not again

[Holden McGroin 6544]

Im due in San Francisco tomorrow. That place is due a good quake soon.

[Park Life 71]

Not again

 

It's gonna get a lot worse.

[Dr Gloom 21861]

it was a tiddler compared to last time. tsunami warning cancelled

[adios 717]

Not again

 

It's gonna get a lot worse.

aftershock armageddon

[Park Life 71]

Not again

 

It's gonna get a lot worse.

aftershock armageddon

 

Japan is history.

 

It will be back to neofuedalism within 20 years.

 

*If it doesn't fall off that peak and straight into the Pacific trench that is.

Edited April 7, 2011 by Park Life

[Rob W 0]

what, exactly, is "neo-fuedalism"?

 

Robin Hood with I-pods???

[Park Life 71]

what, exactly, is "neo-fuedalism"?

 

Robin Hood with I-pods???

 

Yeah.

[Park Life 71]

Despite assurances by health officials that radiation from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is unlikely to show up in the food supply, worries about contaminated foods are growing among consumers, businesses and governments across the globe.

 

On Tuesday, the Japanese government announced new radiation standards for fish after high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium were found in fish caught halfway between the reactor site and Tokyo. In response, the European Union said it would tighten its own radiation limits for Japanese food imports. India said it would ban all food from Japan for at least three months.

 

In the United States, where about 4 percent of food imports come from Japan, the Food and Drug Administration has restricted some foods from the country. And the agency is working with customs officials to screen incoming fish and other food for traces of radiation."

 

 

Just keep upping the radiation safe standards and soon we won't have to worry about the pesky japs.

[Toonpack 9303]

Despite assurances by health officials that radiation from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is unlikely to show up in the food supply, worries about contaminated foods are growing among consumers, businesses and governments across the globe.

 

On Tuesday, the Japanese government announced new radiation standards for fish after high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium were found in fish caught halfway between the reactor site and Tokyo. In response, the European Union said it would tighten its own radiation limits for Japanese food imports. India said it would ban all food from Japan for at least three months.

 

In the United States, where about 4 percent of food imports come from Japan, the Food and Drug Administration has restricted some foods from the country. And the agency is working with customs officials to screen incoming fish and other food for traces of radiation."

 

 

Just keep upping the radiation safe standards and soon we won't have to worry about the pesky japs.

 

I woke up in the middle of the night and it looked like I'd left the bloody light on in the kitchen, it was Ok though, I'd just left a can of Tuna on the bench .

[Park Life 71]

Radiation so high it damaged the measuring equipment.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/world/as...japan.html?_r=1

[Ken 119]

More evidence of Japan's cultural superiority here;

http://japantoday.com/category/national/vi...unami-hit-areas

 

 

 

Rescue workers and citizens have turned in to police tens of millions of yen in cash found in the rubble in mud-covered coastal areas in Japan’s northeastern region, hit hard by the killer quake and massive tsunami last month, police said Saturday.

 

While police and local governments are pessimistic about finding the original owners, unless the money was found with the original owners’ identifications, survivors are calling on authorities to use it to help in the reconstruction of the ravaged areas.

 

Under Japan’s law, people who find money can keep it if the original owners do not come forward within the three-month custodial period. When people who find it give up their claim or fail to show up to receive it within two months after the expiration of the custodial period, ownership will be transferred to prefectural governments or the owners of the property where the money was discovered.

 

According to the police in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures, police stations receive everyday on average several hundred items containing cash. The areas were hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami waves.

 

The Miyagi prefectural police said the money has only been returned to the owners in less than 10 percent of the total cases. A senior officer of the police force said, ‘‘It is impossible to return cash unless it is found inside a wallet together with an ID.’‘

 

Shigeko Sasaki, 64, who is in a shelter in Miyagi’s Minamisanriku, said, ‘‘I want anybody picking up money to donate it to disaster-hit areas instead of keeping it for themselves.’‘

 

Kenji Sato, 65, in Onagawa, also in Miyagi, said it is acceptable for people who find money and report it to the police to eventually keep it ‘‘because it means they have goodwill.’’ Sato said he spotted many empty bags being dumped in devastated areas.

 

Takehiko Yamamura, head of the Disaster Prevention System Institute, urged authorities to set new measures to handle the matter, such as extending the three-month holding period and special permission to open a safe to determine the owner.

Edited April 9, 2011 by Ken

[Park Life 71]

More evidence of Japan's cultural superiority here;

http://japantoday.com/category/national/vi...unami-hit-areas

 

 

 

Rescue workers and citizens have turned in to police tens of millions of yen in cash found in the rubble in mud-covered coastal areas in Japan’s northeastern region, hit hard by the killer quake and massive tsunami last month, police said Saturday.

 

While police and local governments are pessimistic about finding the original owners, unless the money was found with the original owners’ identifications, survivors are calling on authorities to use it to help in the reconstruction of the ravaged areas.

 

Under Japan’s law, people who find money can keep it if the original owners do not come forward within the three-month custodial period. When people who find it give up their claim or fail to show up to receive it within two months after the expiration of the custodial period, ownership will be transferred to prefectural governments or the owners of the property where the money was discovered.

 

According to the police in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures, police stations receive everyday on average several hundred items containing cash. The areas were hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami waves.

 

The Miyagi prefectural police said the money has only been returned to the owners in less than 10 percent of the total cases. A senior officer of the police force said, ‘‘It is impossible to return cash unless it is found inside a wallet together with an ID.’‘

 

Shigeko Sasaki, 64, who is in a shelter in Miyagi’s Minamisanriku, said, ‘‘I want anybody picking up money to donate it to disaster-hit areas instead of keeping it for themselves.’‘

 

Kenji Sato, 65, in Onagawa, also in Miyagi, said it is acceptable for people who find money and report it to the police to eventually keep it ‘‘because it means they have goodwill.’’ Sato said he spotted many empty bags being dumped in devastated areas.

 

Takehiko Yamamura, head of the Disaster Prevention System Institute, urged authorities to set new measures to handle the matter, such as extending the three-month holding period and special permission to open a safe to determine the owner.

 

This is the follow the leader nonsense that got them into this mess in the first place.

[Ayatollah Hermione 13840]

Earthquakes are filthy capitalist dogs.

[Park Life 71]

Robot nation full of jobsworths and liars and shamefaced careerists. Fail.

[Rob W 0]

article in the Economist this week saying how the Yanks are in denial - no proper preparations for a big earthquake

[Christmas Tree 4711]

Another 7.1 hits Japan today.

 

Also, just watching the beeb reporter in one of the towns hit by the Tsunami. The picture below shows the back drop.!!!!!

 

 

I know we've seen lots of pictures live and still, but when you see a bloody large boat like that dumped on top of a two storey house...Fucking hell.

 

Im looking at the houses in my street now and just cant imagine something so powerful that could dump a ship on a house.

[Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1]

I'm sure your sphincter could manage it after your 5 curry breakfast.

Edited April 11, 2011 by Kevin S. Assilleekunt

[Park Life 71]

Independent French radiation commission warns Europe that health risk from Fukushima fallout is “no longer negligible” — Says US west coast has 8-10 times more contamination

April 11th, 2011 at 06:36 AM

 

Radiation risks from Fukushima ‘no longer negligible’, EurActive, April 11, 2011:

 

The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer “negligible,” according to CRIIRAD [Commission de Recherche et d'Information Indépendantes sur la Radioactivité], an independent French research body on radioactivity. …

 

The document, published on 7 April, advises against consuming rainwater and says vulnerable groups such as children and pregnant or breastfeeding women should avoid consuming vegetables with large leaves, fresh milk and creamy cheese.

 

The risks related to prolonged contamination among vulnerable groups of the population can no longer be considered “negligible” and it is now necessary to avoid “risky behaviour,” CRIIRAD claimed. …

 

[This] is applicable to other European countries, as the level of air contamination is currently the same in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, for instance.

 

Data for the west coast of the United States, which received the Fukushima radioactive fallout 6-10 days before France, reveals that levels of radioactive iodine-131 concentration are 8-10 times higher there, the institute says.

[Lazarus 0]

 

 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2011 by Lazarus

[Monkeys Fist 42148]

 

 

 

 

Houseboat?

[Park Life 71]

The Japanese government's nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale.

 

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency made the decision on Monday. It says the damaged facilities have been releasing a massive amount of radioactive substances, which are posing a threat to human health and the environment over a wide area.

 

The agency used the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, or INES, to gauge the level. The scale was designed by an international group of experts to indicate the significance of nuclear events with ratings of 0 to 7.

 

On March 18th, one week after the massive quake, the agency declared the Fukushima trouble a level 5 incident, the same as the accident at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979.

 

Level 7 has formerly only been applied to the Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union in 1986 when hundreds of thousands of terabecquerels of radioactive iodine-131 were released into the air. One terabecquerel is one trillion becquerels.

 

The agency believes the cumulative amount from the Fukushima plant is less than that from Chernobyl.

 

Officials from the agency and the Nuclear Safety Commission will hold a news conference on Tuesday morning to explain the change of evaluation.

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 05:47 +0900 (JST)