here we go again!
2332 Thursday Japan time: 7.1 (USGS) 25mi underwater and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture (HuffPo), 72mi from Fukushima (USGS via NPR). Tsunami warning up to 2m in some parts of Miyagi prefecture, advisories in Iwate, Fukushima, and Ibaraki prefectures with arrival times (Japan Meteorological Agency). "From Tokyo, NPR's Greg Dixon reports that the shaking lasted for about 2 minutes."
NPR is live updating.
(Obvs I haven't been updating every single aftershock, just the big ones with tsunami warnings. For one, I don't get the info about the baby quakes. For another, I've found from my friends and some bloggers in Christchurch that aftershocks just become part of every day life. I only know of one person who's Tweeting every wobble of an aftershake and it's getting pretty jokey.)
I'd find y'all more stuff but I have an assignment due today in about twelve hours. Hence the excessive referencing. That assignment writing mindset...
EDIT, courtesy of Ajora: Wee bit of radiation in Tokyo, safe to go to school/shopping/whatever in but you probably don't want to stay outside too long:
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Wednesday on its website that the radiation level in downtown Tokyo stood at 0.086 microsievert an hour at around 0900 GMT, down from 0.087 microsievert an hour at 0900 GMT Tuesday. The level compares with the 0.035 microsievert an hour a person would typically be exposed to in Shinjuku district of downtown Tokyo due to background radiation.
A chest X-ray typically exposes the patient to a radiation dose of around 100 microsieverts, according to the Radiological Society of North America.
And if anyone has country relatives, some farmers in Fukushima prefecture are trying to save their animals. :(
NPR is live updating.
(Obvs I haven't been updating every single aftershock, just the big ones with tsunami warnings. For one, I don't get the info about the baby quakes. For another, I've found from my friends and some bloggers in Christchurch that aftershocks just become part of every day life. I only know of one person who's Tweeting every wobble of an aftershake and it's getting pretty jokey.)
I'd find y'all more stuff but I have an assignment due today in about twelve hours. Hence the excessive referencing. That assignment writing mindset...
EDIT, courtesy of Ajora: Wee bit of radiation in Tokyo, safe to go to school/shopping/whatever in but you probably don't want to stay outside too long:
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Wednesday on its website that the radiation level in downtown Tokyo stood at 0.086 microsievert an hour at around 0900 GMT, down from 0.087 microsievert an hour at 0900 GMT Tuesday. The level compares with the 0.035 microsievert an hour a person would typically be exposed to in Shinjuku district of downtown Tokyo due to background radiation.
A chest X-ray typically exposes the patient to a radiation dose of around 100 microsieverts, according to the Radiological Society of North America.
And if anyone has country relatives, some farmers in Fukushima prefecture are trying to save their animals. :(