Japan Tragedy

The massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday was so powerful that it changed the shape of the country's coastline and shifted the earth's axis.

 

Geophysicist Kenneth Hudnut, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey, told CNN that the quake moved part of Japan's land mass by nearly 2.5 meters.

 

Experts say that the huge shake, caused by a shift in the tectonic plates deep underwater, also threw the earth off its axis point by at least 8 centimeters.

 

Thousands of people were unaccounted for in Japan on Saturday, a day after the 8.9 earthquake shook the country and giant tsunami waves crashed 10 kilometers inland in the northeast.

 

Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.

na nustume zeme nuo sukimosi asies per 8cm kazkur....gana daug sakyciau... ir sala pastumejo apie 2.5m siaip po kiekvieno tokio ivykio zemes pluta juk pasislenka. biski zeme dabar tik varys i neaisku kur su 8cm posukiu..nu ka tases kraunam ane... (paskutinis sakinys nerimtas:)

On March 11th, 2011 Friday will be a page in the history of Japan and the world for the havoc the earthquake followed by the tsunami created. It has not only devastated Japan,sending shock wave through the world. It has also literally shifted the Earth's axis by 8 feet(2.4 meters). It is a well known fact that the Chile earthquake has shifted the earth's axis.

 

The quake occurred as the Earth's crust ruptured along an area about 250 miles (400 kilometers) long by 100 miles (160 kilometers) wide, as tectonic plates slipped more than 18 meters, said Shengzao Chen, a USGS geophysics.

 

Japan is located in the "ring of fire". Known for high seismic activity and volcanic eruptions.The Friday's quake is the highest recorded quake in Japan's history. Tsunami created havoc across the coastal region of Japan triggering alert for across 50 countries.

 

Some devastating Numbers

 

Police confirm 402 dead, toll expected to exceed 1,000, with most people feared drowned.

 

* Japan is still experiencing some very moderate aftershocks. 5.1, 5.2, 5.2, 6.0, 6.8 hit within a just in 15 minutes.

* An explosion has been reported near a nuclear plant in northeastern Japan's Fukushima prefecture.

* A nuclear safety panel says radiation levels are 1000 times above normal in a reactor control room.

* Tokyo Electric Power has lost its ability to control pressure in some of the reactors of a second nuclear power plant.

* Contact lost with four trains along the coast area of northeastern Japan, Kyodo news agency says.

* A ship carrying 100 people was swept away by the tsunami, media reported.

* Tsunami alerts lifted from Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

 

Japan declared NUCLEAR EMERGENCY

 

 

As cooling mechanism have taken a beating in the quakes. A blast in one of the nuclear reactor also reported. Forcing the authorities to evacuate the surrounding areas.

dabar jau axis pasikeite 8feet (2.4m) tai arba 8cm arba 8feet neaisku dabar. pernai metais Ciles drebejimas pakeite zemes asi per 3 inches (8 cm). palyginimui zeme pati nukrypsta nuo asies per metus apie 10cm. o cia per kelias minutes pakeicia tiek kiek per metus pasikeistu. tai jei dabar pakeite net 2.4m tai WOU!! kazko perdaug, gal geriau 8cm butu.

p.s. turi but 8cm , nes pernai ciles drebejimas buvo 8.8 stiprumo ir pakeite apie 8cm. tai dabar irgi va padare metu pasikeitima per kelias minutes. su 2.4m jau lektume velniop visi tada..

So far, however, it's all calculation and speculation. "We haven't actually measured the shift," says Gross. "But I intend to give it a try."

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Japanese nuclear experts are working to contain a partial meltdown at an earthquake-stricken nuclear power plant north of Tokyo, as fears grow that the death toll from Friday’s massive quake and tsunami could reach the tens of thousands.

 

Yukio Edano, Japan’s chief government spokesman, said there was a “significant chance” that radioactive fuel rods had partially melted in two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, 240km north of the capital.

 

However, Mr Edano said the radiation levels measured outside the plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power, did not suggest a major health threat.

 

“I am trying to be careful with words ... This is not a situation where the whole core suffers a meltdown,” Mr Edano said.

 

A partial meltdown, experts said, would likely mean that some portion of the reactors’ uranium fuel rods had cracked or warped from overheating, releasing radioactive particles into the reactors’ containment vessels. Some of those particles would have escaped into the air outside when engineers vented steam from the vessels to relieve pressure building up inside.

taigi dalinai jau pasilyde yra 2 reaktoriu kieto kuro misiniai, tai net ne vienas. butent nuo ju gali ir jobint patys reaktorius.

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