Japan earthquake and tsunami: Live updates
Earthquake-triggered tsumanis sweep shores along Iwanuma in northern Japan on Friday March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
As the West Coast prepares for the possible tsunami, and Japan reels from 8.9-magnitude earthquake, we'll be following along with live updates here.
JAPAN: 12:01 a.m. (JST) / 10:01 a.m. (ET), FridayPhotograph of the Sendai airport
Sendai Airport is surrounded by waters in Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, after a ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
JAPAN: 11:51 p.m. (JST) / 9:51 a.m. (ET), FridayCitizen footage from the moment of the quake
YouTube has launched a CitizenTube channel on its site to collect videos from the earthquake. Here are a few so far:
JAPAN: 11:51 p.m. (JST) / 9:51 a.m. (ET), FridayOil drops below $100 in U.S. as quake shuts Japan refineries
Oil dropped below $100 a barrel in New York for the first time in more than a week after Japan's strongest earthquake in at least a century forced refiners to shut processing plants, according to AP.
U.S. crude futures are headed for their first weekly decline in a month. A fire at Cosmo Oil Co.'s refinery in Chiba, outside Tokyo, is spreading, a Fire Department spokesman said. JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. closed refineries in Sendai, Kashima and Negishi. Brent crude is also set for decline in London
"The earthquake is having a psychological impact on the market in triggering a rise in risk aversion," Carsten Fritsch, an analyst at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt, told AP. "The effect is also physical, in that oil demand from Japan could temporarily be lower."
JAPAN: 11:39 p.m. (JST) / 9:39 a.m. (ET), FridayVisitors evacuated from Tokyo Disneyland
Tokyo Disneyland's car park was drenched with water-logged segments from the ground following the earthquake that rocked Japan's Pacific coast Friday, police told AFP.
Police said the phenomenon was due to liquefaction of soil caused by the intense shaking of the tremor, not a result of the tsunami.
There were 69,000 people at Tokyo Disneyland and the neighboring Tokyo Disney Sea when the quake occurred, a spokesman at the local Urawa police station told AFP. There were no injuries or property damage reported at the theme parks.
"The visitors have been evacuated to safe places, but there are many puddles due to liquefaction around the theme parks," he said.
Here's an image from Twitter, reportedly of visitors waiting at the park after the quake
JAPAN: 11:33 p.m. (JST) / 9:33 a.m. (ET), FridayThe Washington Post's Chico Harlan reports on the earthquake from Hiroshima, Japan. WATCH:
JAPAN: 11:28 p.m. (JST) / 9:28 a.m. (ET), FridayTsunami wave hits Japan's main airport
A tsunami wave hit also wiped out Japan's main Sendai Airport, as a wave of debris crashed through. WATCH:
See a picture of people watching the wave approach here.
JAPAN: 10:59 p.m. (JST) / 8:59 a.m. (ET), FridayU.S. coast braces for possible tsunami impact
The tsunami that caused a massive earthquake in Japan is now crossing the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. National Weather Service has issued a warning for at least 50 countries or territories around the Pacific and the U.S. coast is now bracing for the impact of the waves.
Tsunami waves began rolling into Hawaii, with readings of between 6 and 8 feet expected in some areas, CNN reported. The first impact in Hawaii was felt shortly after 3:07 a.m. local time (8:07 a.m. ET), according to Hawaii State Civil Defense, which issued a tsunami warning, followed by an increase in water coming ashore.
Honolulu is planning for several contingencies, because it is not certain how large the waves could be and where they may rush inland, Mayor Peter Carlisle told CNN. The Coast Guard is preparing for the worst-case scenario.
On the Oregon coast, sirens are urging people to seek higher ground. Information indicated a wave of more than 6 feet could reach Brookings in southern Oregon, while a wave of about 4 1/2 feet was predicted for northern Oregon's Clatsop spit. The waves are expected between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
In Alaska, the Alaska Emergency Management says the tsunami caused a wave just over 5 feet at Shemya and about 18 inches at Adak and Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands. Shemya is 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Communities along much of the U.S. West Coast are under tsunami warnings. Read Tsunami warnings from the National Weather Service.
JAPAN: 10:59 p.m. (JST) / 8:58 a.m. (ET), FridayTsunami waves across the Pacific
This map shows a projection of tsunami waves across the Pacific, courtesy of Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider:
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JAPAN: 9:30 p.m. (JST) / 7:31 a.m. (ET), FridayEarthquake hits Japan
Japan was struck with a massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks Friday afternoon. Washington Post reporter Chico Harlan reported from Japan:
The first earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m. local time (12:46 a.m. in Washington), causing buildings to sway in Tokyo for several minutes.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the largest initial earthquake struck at a depth of about six miles, about 80 miles off the coast east of Miyagi Prefecture, a mostly rural but still densely populated part of Honshu, Japan's largest island.
Tokyo -- which is also on Honshu and about 230 miles south of the epicenter -- appeared to escape substantial damage, though some fires were reported and buildings shook violently during the initial quake.
AP reported there were "no reports of injuries to American personnel there or damage to U.S. installations or ships in the area."
JAPAN: 9:30 p.m. (JST) / 7:31 a.m. (ET), FridayAudio report from Hiroshima
Harlan called in this audio report from Hiroshima. He had been getting ready to board a bullet train when the train was delayed by several minutes, which was a "really unusual occurrence." Harlan tells of thousands of train passengers who went silent, looking at images of cars and houses like driftwood washing away. LISTEN:
JAPAN: 9:15 p.m. (JST) / 7:15 a.m. (ET), FridayLive video of the quake
Watch video of the live quake here:
JAPAN: 9:00 p.m. (JST) / 7:00 a.m. (ET), FridayTweets from Japan
1 comment:
Seismic activity is the result of a solar flare on 13-15 February 2011.
The largest number of thermographs (Portable Thermal Imaging Cameras), to search for people under the rubble by fixing heat of the human body, have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces. Мost of these cameras mounted on military equipment. Some quantity of IR cameras have their manufacturers in warehouses.
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Аdequate logistics for the delivery of this equipment has the U.S. Army and the operating companies of largest aircrafts An-124.
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