Friday, March 11, 2011

Latest news :Tsunami:...........





  • Kyodo reporting that over 700 flights from Japan have been cancelled, with 13,000 people stranded at Tokyo's Narita airport and 10,000 at Haneda airport.
  • Kyodo reports that 2,000 residents near Fukushima nuclear plant have been advised to evacuate.
  • Auto plants, electronics factories and refineries shut across large parts of Japan
  • Oil slides as mega quake and tsunami swipe Japan
  • @GothicFrog tweets: "Scientist from the British Geological survey says the acid test to the strength of the tsunami will be when it reaches Hawaii in 1hour."
  • Kyodo reporting that over 700 flights from Japan have been cancelled, with 13,000 people stranded at Tokyo's Narita airport and 10,000 at Haneda airport.
  • None of those places are on tsunami alert
  • Japanese news outlet Kyodo reports: "BREAKING NEWS: Death toll from Japan quake rises to over 50".
  • Guam initially appeared to have emerged unscathed.

    "So far no waves," Lorilee Crisostomo told Reuters by telephone from Guam, roughly an hour after the tsunami was first due, though forecasters set a four-hour window in which a wave could hit the island.
  • From our latest Hawaii story: "The island of Kauai was expected to be the first hit in Hawaii because the tsunami was advancing from the west and would likely take 20 to 30 minutes to cross the entire state"
  • Nothing in Singapore, which escaped the Asian tsunami despite its proximity
  • People in Hawaii seem to be using the hashtag #hitsunami to keep up to date with the latest developments. @GenePark tweets: "Latest estimates from PTWC: Honolulu Harbor expecting a 3-foot wave; Haleiwa 6.6 feet; Hilo 6.2 feet"
  • The four Japanese nuclear power plants closest to Friday's major earthquake in Japan have been safely shut down, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
  • Nuclear plants near Japan quake safely shut--IAEA
  • Countries covered by the tsunami warnings include Russia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. No word of any damage in those countries.
  • Hawaii ordered evacuations of coastal areas due to the threat of a tidal wave set off by Friday's earthquake in Japan as a tsunami warning was extended to the entire Pacific basin, except for the U.S. mainland and Canada.
  • A ship carrying 100 people was swept away by the tsunami which smashed into northeastern Japan on Friday following a massive earthquake, Kyodo news agency reported.

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