President Obama’s Air Force One has landed at Iwakuni Marine Air Station, ahead of a historic visit to Hiroshima, the first by a sitting U.S. President to the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. “This afternoon I will visit Hiroshima,” Obama said at the base. “This is an opportunity to honor the memory of […]
President Obama’s Air Force One has landed at Iwakuni Marine Air Station, ahead of a historic visit to Hiroshima, the first by a sitting U.S. President to the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. “This afternoon I will visit Hiroshima,” Obama said at the base. “This is an opportunity to honor the memory of […]
A strong earthquake shook northern Japan on Wednesday evening, causing small tidal changes on its Pacific coastline but no damage or injury was reported. Several towns issued evacuation orders or advisories to residents nearest the coast. A swelling of 20 centimeters (8 inches) was observed in the port of Hachinohe in Aomori, northern Japan, about […]
TOKYO — Japan’s northeastern coast has been rattled by a strong aftershock. The Japan meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter. The warning was issued for a coastal area already ravaged by last month’s tsunami. Officials say the quake was a 7.4-magnitude and hit 25 miles (40 […]
Highly radioactive water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean from a crack in a concrete pit outside a crippled reactor at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, an official with the plant’s owner said Saturday. Water from the two-meter deep, concrete-lined basin could be seen escaping into the sea through a roughly 20-cm (8-inch) crack, […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Federal and state officials have concluded that the small amount of radiation reaching Southern California from Japan’s damaged nuclear reactor pose no significant health risk.
Despite the fact that Haiti is still in turmoil more than a year after the tragic earthquake that happened this year, the thoughts and prayers of many Haitians are with the people of Japan. RELATED: 25 reasons we love Arsenio Hall Huffpo journalist, Bryn Mooser reports: When news of the Japan disaster was coming in […]
8.9 earthquake struck Japan triggering a Tsunami alert. Heartfelt prayers are being sent to those involved in this disaster. Here is some of the prayers that have been reported on the internet. Please feel free to share your prayers in the comment section below. (TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com) The massive earthquake and the resulting tsunami that hit Japan […]
via New York Daily News U.S. military vessels began arriving in Japan Saturday as the international relief effort for the devastated island nation began to take shape. Dubbed Operation Tomodachi – Japanese for “friendship” – American forces based near Tokyo are leading military and humanitarian assistance missions from Europe, Asia and beyond. “We have units […]
via CNN As Japan buckles from a powerful earthquake and a devastating tsunami, residents on Sunday hoped they are spared an even more catastrophic fate: a widespread release of radiation from damaged nuclear plants. By Sunday afternoon, the death toll from the country’s strongest earthquake in more than a century and the crushing walls of […]
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The largest recorded earthquake in Japanese history sparked a tsunami that devastated parts of the country and is headed toward the U.S. Lucy Craft reports.
