Latest News on Japan, 8.9 Quake and After Shocks

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SATURDAY CAME AND THE LIGHT BROUGHT A LOOK AT THE DEVASTATION

MORE QUAKES COULD BE COMING

MARCH 9TH JAPAN QUAKES 6.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.5,
MARCH 11TH JAPAN QUAKES 8.9, THEN… AFTER SHOCKS 6.4, 6.4, 6.8, 7.1, 6.3, 6.3, 6.3, 6.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2, 6.5, 6.1, 6.0

AND DOZENS OF 5.0 – 5.9 QUAKES SINCE THE 9TH

THIS IS THE WORST CLUSTER OF QUAKES IN WORLD HISTORY!

The earthquake knocked out power at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and because a backup generator failed, the cooling system was unable to supply water to cool the 460-megawatt No. 1 reactor. Although a backup cooling system is being used, Japan’s nuclear safety agency said pressure inside the reactor had risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal.

Authorities said radiation levels had jumped 1,000 times normal inside Unit 1 and were measured at eight times normal outside the plant. They expanded an earlier evacuation zone more than threefold, from 3 to 10 kilometers (2 miles to 6.2 miles). Some 3,000 people had been urged to leave their homes in the first announcement.

The government declared a state of emergency, its first ever at a nuclear plant. And plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. warned of power shortages and an “extremely challenging situation in power supply for a while.”

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