and there I was thinking I wouldn't be quake updating again
EDIT, 04/01/11, thanks to Ajora: The Tokyo region is likely to face rolling blackouts throughout the summer.
Nuclear stuff: Some info on the reactors, which are going to be pumped with water and probably sealed in concrete like Cherynobyl. Also, there may be a return of the Hiroshima stigma, ie. radiation victims being shunned by their fellow Japanese citizens, with those affected in Fukushima. Sadly, some bodies may not be recovered because of the radiation. The spreading radiation is a worry to the fishing industry.
6.5 near the east coast of Honshu at 7:23AM 03/28/11 Japan time with a .5m tsunami warning for Miyagi prefecture. Links go to USGS and Japan's weather warnings sites; here is a CNN report on it. More as it comes out and once I get out of class! (Feel free to share anything you've found.)
I can't find anything on how it's hit our kids yet (though we can probably guess the trains stopped again, as they're programmed to in earthquakes) but I did find this blog post made earlier today on how Tokyo's doing two weeks on:
First of all, Tokyo is generally emptier than usual. There isn't quite as much traffic on the streets, pedestrians on sidewalks, passengers in trains, or customers in stores.
Wide ranging power cuts that were planned for Tokyo have not happened mainly because calls for power conservation have been heeded. Businesses and citizens seem to be cooperating in keeping electricity consumption to a minimum.
This does make, however, for a curiously dark and dingy Tokyo. Many lights in the normally dazzling subways - even inside the trains - have been switched off. Visibility has barely suffered at all, but that clinically stark white light that characterizes Japanese public spaces is somewhat more sallow. Escalators in non-major subway stations are no longer in use. Most drink vending machines are turned off.
Nighttime Tokyo is also suddenly more demure now that the neon signs are no longer flashing.
Perhaps the most disturbing sign of the recent troubles is to be found in food stores. Radiation levels around the reactors have just risen dramatically because of yet unidentified leaks in the facility, and the vegetable racks in Japanese stores clearly reflect this, with any produce from eastern Honshu, north of Tokyo, sitting there untouched.
Bottled water is available, but rationed to one or two bottles per customer, but milk and yogurt are becoming very difficult to find. Unlike toilet paper shortages further west of Tokyo, there seems to be enough to go round in Tokyo.
That's actually all but the introductory paragraph, but the post does have some interesting photos.
Nuclear stuff: Some info on the reactors, which are going to be pumped with water and probably sealed in concrete like Cherynobyl. Also, there may be a return of the Hiroshima stigma, ie. radiation victims being shunned by their fellow Japanese citizens, with those affected in Fukushima. Sadly, some bodies may not be recovered because of the radiation. The spreading radiation is a worry to the fishing industry.
6.5 near the east coast of Honshu at 7:23AM 03/28/11 Japan time with a .5m tsunami warning for Miyagi prefecture. Links go to USGS and Japan's weather warnings sites; here is a CNN report on it. More as it comes out and once I get out of class! (Feel free to share anything you've found.)
I can't find anything on how it's hit our kids yet (though we can probably guess the trains stopped again, as they're programmed to in earthquakes) but I did find this blog post made earlier today on how Tokyo's doing two weeks on:
First of all, Tokyo is generally emptier than usual. There isn't quite as much traffic on the streets, pedestrians on sidewalks, passengers in trains, or customers in stores.
Wide ranging power cuts that were planned for Tokyo have not happened mainly because calls for power conservation have been heeded. Businesses and citizens seem to be cooperating in keeping electricity consumption to a minimum.
This does make, however, for a curiously dark and dingy Tokyo. Many lights in the normally dazzling subways - even inside the trains - have been switched off. Visibility has barely suffered at all, but that clinically stark white light that characterizes Japanese public spaces is somewhat more sallow. Escalators in non-major subway stations are no longer in use. Most drink vending machines are turned off.
Nighttime Tokyo is also suddenly more demure now that the neon signs are no longer flashing.
Perhaps the most disturbing sign of the recent troubles is to be found in food stores. Radiation levels around the reactors have just risen dramatically because of yet unidentified leaks in the facility, and the vegetable racks in Japanese stores clearly reflect this, with any produce from eastern Honshu, north of Tokyo, sitting there untouched.
Bottled water is available, but rationed to one or two bottles per customer, but milk and yogurt are becoming very difficult to find. Unlike toilet paper shortages further west of Tokyo, there seems to be enough to go round in Tokyo.
That's actually all but the introductory paragraph, but the post does have some interesting photos.