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Title: MASSIVE QUAKE HITS JAPAN
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CNN
URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiap ... ake/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
Published: Mar 11, 2011
Author: CNN
Post Date: 2011-03-11 09:11:11 by go65
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Views: 3256
Comments: 9
Tokyo (CNN) -- The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in at least 100 years unleashed walls of water Friday that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats like toys, apparently killing hundreds. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the "enormously powerful" earthquake has caused "tremendous damage over a wide area." The quake, which struck at 2:46 pm local time, sparked fires in at least 80 locations, Japan's Kyodo News Service reported, and prompted the U.S. National Weather Service to issue tsunami warnings for at least 50 countries and territories. Police in Miyagi Prefecture say between 200-300 have been found in the coastal city of Sendai alone, Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported late Friday. The death toll is likely to rise as there are few casualty counts yet from the worst-hit areas.
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Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
It's pretty bad but the tuff new building codes Japan put in place in the last 2 decades seems to have prevented the worst.......
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
most of the damage appears to be tsunami related in the north, likely thousands of casualties. Energy facilities are wrecked.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
raw video from the tsunami:
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
I believe that meguro lives in Japan. Could have been buried underneath a tsunami of homos at the bath house. Meg, can you hear me now?
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... Meg, can you hear me now? Yeah, I can hear you, you piece of garbage. Go die a horrible death.
Japanese authorities ordered the precautionary evacuation of a nuclear plant affected by the earthquake, saying that while there was no immediate danger, crews were having trouble cooling the reactor. The Fukushima plant is one of four closest to the quake that the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said were safety shut down.
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[8:29 a.m. ET, 10:29 p.m. Tokyo] Some cooling functions at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are not working and authorities are "bracing for the worst," Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Friday. There is no danger to the environment, but authorities have ordered the evacuation of a few thousand people who live closest to the plant, the Kyodo News agency reported. Others who live nearby have been urged to stay indoors, Edano said.
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[12:06 p.m. ET, 2:06 a.m. Tokyo] Radiation level rising in Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant turbine building, Kyodo News Agency reports.
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#8. To: go65, meguro (#0)
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unleashed walls of water Friday that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats like toys, apparently killing hundreds
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#9. To: hondo68 (#8)
I believe that meguro lives in Japan. Could have been buried underneath a tsunami of homos at the bath house.
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