TSUNAMI WARNING ISSUED FOR JAPAN, RUSSIA AND OTHER REGIONS

[Lite Beer]

Deaths from #Japan quake, tsunami could top 10,000 - NHK/RT@REUTERSFLASH

[PST]

Look carefully at around 9 seconds towards the top right of the picture nearer the bigger white grow tents.

There appears to be an airborne object (with shadow) travelling as fast,if not faster than the tsunami,coming from top to bottom of the picture.

After a few more looks at this,there looks as if they're are 2 more coming from further left,again travelling at great speeds.

Strange.

PST.

sea gulls

Black ones flying in a direct straight line,faster than the tsunami?,thats one fast seagull(s).

PST.

[jfchandler]

Deaths from #Japan quake, tsunami could top 10,000 - NHK/RT@REUTERSFLASH

Actually, Kyodo News is reporting that estimate just for Miyagi Prefecture...

Miyagi police chief estimates over 10,000 deaths in Miyagi: NHK

[Lite Beer]

600 bodies found on Japan's north-eastern coast

Tokyo - More than 600 bodies have been found along the coasts of north-eastern Japan's Miyagi and Iwate prefectures after a magnitude-8.9 earthquake and tsunami, the Kyodo News agency reported Sunday.

Officials said they expected the final death toll from Friday's disaster to exceed 2,000 although the official tally of the dead was at about 800 Sunday.

In the north-east, near the epicentre, officials had lost contact with tens of thousands of residents after the quake and tsunami that crushed buildings and swept away people, cars and crops. //DPA

-- The Nation 2011-03-13

[Lite Beer]

Deaths from #Japan quake, tsunami could top 10,000 - NHK/RT@REUTERSFLASH

Actually, Kyodo News is reporting that estimate just for Miyagi Prefecture...

Miyagi police chief estimates over 10,000 deaths in Miyagi: NHK

BREAKING: #Japan police say death toll in Miyagi prefecture could surpass 10,000 #jpquake/RT@CBSNews

[Lite Beer]

A great set of pictures from Japan by

The Boston Globe.

[Lite Beer]

Victims top 2,000 in Japan quake-tsunami, nuclear crisis continues

SENDAI, March 13, Kyodo

Japan continued to grapple Sunday with widespread damage from its biggest recorded earthquake and massive tsunami that hit northeastern and eastern regions two days ago, with the number of reported victims topping 2,000 and a crisis escalating at one of two affected nuclear plants.

The magnitude of the devastating quake was revised upward the same day from 8.8 to 9.0, making it one of the largest in history, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Read More.

[Moonrakers]

Look carefully at around 9 seconds towards the top right of the picture nearer the bigger white grow tents.

There appears to be an airborne object (with shadow) travelling as fast,if not faster than the tsunami,coming from top to bottom of the picture.

After a few more looks at this,there looks as if they're are 2 more coming from further left,again travelling at great speeds.

Strange.

PST.

sea gulls

Black ones flying in a direct straight line,faster than the tsunami?,thats one fast seagull(s).

PST.

It is birds.

You can also see them flying between the debris on the tsunami.

[PST]

Look carefully at around 9 seconds towards the top right of the picture nearer the bigger white grow tents.

There appears to be an airborne object (with shadow) travelling as fast,if not faster than the tsunami,coming from top to bottom of the picture.

After a few more looks at this,there looks as if they're are 2 more coming from further left,again travelling at great speeds.

Strange.

PST.

sea gulls

Black ones flying in a direct straight line,faster than the tsunami?,thats one fast seagull(s).

PST.

It is birds.

You can also see them flying between the debris on the tsunami.

I can clearly see the white birds on the debris,but the black object moving south is travelling far to fast.Skip on a few seconds and gauge the speed of the tsunami to the cars trying to escape it on the right hand side,i've no doubt whatsoever that those cars were travelling at high speeds,but i doubt if any of the drivers survived,that tsunami was travelling very very fast,yet the object seems to be flying faster.

PST.

[canuckamuck]

I can clearly see the white birds on the debris,but the black object moving south is travelling far to fast.Skip on a few seconds and gauge the speed of the tsunami to the cars trying to escape it on the right hand side,i've no doubt whatsoever that those cars were travelling at high speeds,but i doubt if any of the drivers survived,that tsunami was travelling very very fast,yet the object seems to be flying faster.

PST.

The water appears to be moving at about 25km per hour. Hardly a problem for birds.

[jfchandler]

Speaking of birds...just when you thought it couldn't get any better:

Kyodo News - Bird flu case confirmed in Chiba, culling of 35,000 birds begins

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77358.html

[Lite Beer]

Anxiety, fatigue grow among evacuated citizens near nuclear plant

Anxiety and distress was growing among evacuees near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant Sunday, a day after a blast occurred and fears increased over possible radioactive leaks from the plant that was hit by Friday's massive earthquake.

''What's going to happen, and when...?'' a local town official said in expressing concerns, although he noted that people are not panicking. He evacuated from the Fukushima Prefecture town of Okuma, where the plant is located, to the city of Tamura in the same prefecture, farther away from the plant.

Noting that some of the evacuees have also fallen ill because of fatigue and anxiety about the future three days after evacuation, the official said, ''There are calls for information about hospitals. There is also a need for medicine.''

As the government expanded from 10 kilometers to 20 km the radius of the evacuation area for residents living near the plant, where one of the reactors partially melted Saturday and the blast occurred, another 180,000 residents were forced to seek refuge.

Another resident from Okuma tweeted, ''I want to go back to Okuma, which I love.'' Another woman from the town, who was rescued by the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tweeted, ''I hope to return to Okuma soon.''

A woman who evacuated to neighboring Yamagata Prefecture from the coastal city of Minamisoma tweeted that there is no more gasoline in Fukushima and called for help, saying ''Supply gasoline to Fukushima.''

In another elementary school in the town of Kawamata, around 500 people newly arrived by car or bus from another coastal town, Namie. Electricity is down in Kawamata and there is no heating in the area where temperatures have fallen to as low as minus 1 C.

A male worker from Namie said, ''Some are flustered because their evacuation centers have been changed. Some are getting nervous as they can't foresee what is going to happen.''

''It is extremely cold. Supplies of blankets and food are short,'' the worker added.

As of Saturday night, around 1,800 residents had evacuated to nine asylums located at school gymnasiums and other facilities in the town of Miharu. One town worker said, ''The facilities are full, and we cannot accept any more evacuees.''

In the town of Kagamiishi, where around 10 people evacuated, a town worker said, ''What will happen if more come to take refuge here? We have little knowledge about nuclear power.''

Kyodo--2011--03--13

[Lite Beer]

JMA says there is a 70 percent chance that an aftershock of 7.0 or higher will happen before 10 am on Wednesday/RT@mpoppel

[jfchandler]

A bit more from Kyodo News on the potential 10,000 fatalities report... Note the quoted wording of the police chief in Miyagi...

''We have no choice but to deal with the situation on the premise that it (the death toll) will undoubtedly be numbered in the ten thousands,'' Naoto Takeuchi, head of the Miyagi prefectural police, said in a local disaster task force meeting, while the official tally shows 963 confirmed deaths in Miyagi and other areas.

The number of people who have died or remain unaccounted for exceeds 2,000, police said earlier in the day, as well over 600 bodies have been found in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures on the Pacific coast.

Also, local governments have been unable to contact tens of thousands of people, and at least 20,820 buildings have been fully or partially damaged in quake-hit areas.

AND

Prime Minister Naoto Kan issued an instruction early Sunday to boost the number of Self-Defense Forces personnel sent to quake-hit areas to 100,000, one of the largest ever for an SDF operation, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said.

MORE: http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77353.html

[PST]

I can clearly see the white birds on the debris,but the black object moving south is travelling far to fast.Skip on a few seconds and gauge the speed of the tsunami to the cars trying to escape it on the right hand side,i've no doubt whatsoever that those cars were travelling at high speeds,but i doubt if any of the drivers survived,that tsunami was travelling very very fast,yet the object seems to be flying faster.

PST.

The water appears to be moving at about 25km per hour. Hardly a problem for birds.

?,so therefore the cars on the road trying to escape in the last 5 seconds appear to be doing what speed?,because you can bet the tsunami would have passed them within seconds.

PST.

[jfchandler]

Kyodo News:

Tsunami advisory entirely lifted for Pacific coasts: Japan agency

[jfchandler]

And then what happens when you need to get money or use an ATM???

BOJ provides 55 bil. yen in cash to 13 banks in quake-hit areas

TOKYO, March 13, Kyodo News The Bank of Japan said Sunday it has provided a total of 55 billion yen in cash to 13 financial institutions in areas hit by a powerful earthquake that struck northeastern and eastern Japan on Friday.

The Japanese central bank said the fund settlement system for major financial institutions is largely working normally following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and that it has received no reports suggesting a major disruption in the system on Monday.

[Lite Beer]

as if Japan needed anything more, Shinmoedake volcano is apparently erupting. live feed: http://bit.ly/fbOk7z ref: http://bit.ly/gsJOeH/RT@shioyama

[jfchandler]

Followed by plagues and locusts, the way things are going......

[ETatBKK]

US Navy relief support arrives on Mar 13 morning

as a request from Japan government and Seld Defense Force, US Navy Pacific Fleet ( 7th Fleet ) arrives Honshu, the off coast of Miyagi with a aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and a command ship USS Blue Ridge. another 7 vessels will also be arrived on Mar 18. they carry water and other relief supplies from Singapore.

translated from www.asahi.com Mar 13, 2011 at 18.45 Japan time

[Tywais]

as if Japan needed anything more, Shinmoedake volcano is apparently erupting. live feed: http://bit.ly/fbOk7z ref: http://bit.ly/gsJOeH/RT@shioyama

Note this video is of the January 26, 2011 eruption for background information. It has erupted 11 times since January.

[Maestro]

Translation from the news ticker of German-language online newspapers in Switzerland:

2011-03-13 11:32 UTC

170,000 persons have so far been evacuated from the 20-km area around the Fukushima plant.

2011-03-13 11:35 UTC

Tokyo Electric says that controlled intermittent power cuts will continue until the end of April.

2011-03-13 12:03 UTC

The supply of fish running short in Japan because of the catastrophic damage in fishing ports.

2011-03-13 12:04 UTC

Prime Minister Kan say about 12,000 persons have so far been saved from the ruins.

2011-03-13 12:39 UTC

Japan's economy is severely damaged. Production losses at Toyota, Nissan and Honda; ocean transport is limited; three refineries in the north-east are out of service.

[Maestro]

Over 10,000 deaths feared in quake-tsunami, nuclear crisis continues

SENDAI, March 13, Kyodo

The death toll from Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern and eastern Japan will likely surpass 10,000, the Miyagi police chief said Sunday as Japan grapples with widespread damage and a crisis at one of two affected nuclear plants.

Read more: http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77410.html

-- 2011-03-13 Kyodo News

[Maestro]

13 March 2011 Last updated at 13:21 GMT

Japan crisis 'worst since WWII'

Japan is experiencing its greatest hardships since World War II, Prime Minister Naoto Kan says, in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami and a growing crisis at a nuclear plant. Police warn that the death toll in one of the worst-hit areas is likely to exceed 10,000.

In a televised statement, Mr Kan warned of sweeping power cuts to come.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12726297

-- BBC 2011-03-13

[bulmercke]

Monster aftershock could strike within days

Adam Morton - March 14 2011 - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

QUOTE FROM STORY:"NORTH-EASTERN Japan can expect another monster earthquake large enough to trigger a tsunami within days, the head of the Australian Seismological Centre says.

The director, Kevin McCue, said there had been more than 100 smaller quakes since Friday, but a larger aftershock was likely."

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/monster-aftershock-could-strike-within-days-20110313-1bt2p.html

[WarpSpeed]

I can clearly see the white birds on the debris,but the black object moving south is travelling far to fast.Skip on a few seconds and gauge the speed of the tsunami to the cars trying to escape it on the right hand side,i've no doubt whatsoever that those cars were travelling at high speeds,but i doubt if any of the drivers survived,that tsunami was travelling very very fast,yet the object seems to be flying faster.

PST.

The water appears to be moving at about 25km per hour. Hardly a problem for birds.

?,so therefore the cars on the road trying to escape in the last 5 seconds appear to be doing what speed?,because you can bet the tsunami would have passed them within seconds.

PST.

Look more closely there are numerous helicopters around filming and flying in all different directions and heights it is a shadow of other choppers above or beside the one reporting at that moment projecting a shadow on the ground, likely they're higher based on the size of the projected shadows, it stands to reason they would be following the wave and flying on a trajectory towards this chopper. They disappear once they have moved past the chopper that is reporting..

Edited March 13, 2011 by WarpSpeed

[PST]

I can clearly see the white birds on the debris,but the black object moving south is travelling far to fast.Skip on a few seconds and gauge the speed of the tsunami to the cars trying to escape it on the right hand side,i've no doubt whatsoever that those cars were travelling at high speeds,but i doubt if any of the drivers survived,that tsunami was travelling very very fast,yet the object seems to be flying faster.

PST.

The water appears to be moving at about 25km per hour. Hardly a problem for birds.

?,so therefore the cars on the road trying to escape in the last 5 seconds appear to be doing what speed?,because you can bet the tsunami would have passed them within seconds.

PST.

Look more closely there are numerous helicopters around filming and flying in all different directions and heights it is a shadow of other choppers above or beside the one reporting at that moment projecting a shadow on the ground, likely they're higher based on the size of the projected shadows, it stands to reason they would be following the wave and flying on a trajectory towards this chopper. They disappear once they have moved past the chopper that is reporting..

The footage is coming from a chopper,the objects seem to be alot closer to ground,can only see one more chopper aswell.

PST.

[bulmercke]

QUOTE FROM INTERNET:"I fully expect the MSM (both in Japan and the US) to downplay the potential threat of a nuclear disaster in order to prevent panic and mayhem. Controlling whole populations by manipulation of the truth and outright lies is their forte.

Best not to believe them, follow Hillary’s expressed fears and get the “real news” from Aljazeera and RT."

And very pertinent it is too.

[Maestro]

Translation from the news ticker of German-language online newspaper in Switzerland:

2011-03-13 13:03 UTC

Prime Minster Kan warns stock market speculators against taking advantage of the current crisis. In his opinion, the catastrophe will lead to a "New Deal" with the USA like in the 1930s and will increase domestic demand.

[Lite Beer]

Japan now confirms 1353 dead, 1085 missing - CBS/RT@mpoppel