Bloody hell...

[japankasasagi]

I am exhausted after a night of tremors in MY area.  My husband and I had literally JUST finished discussing what we would take with us in what kind of emergency, when our area was struck by a 6.7 quake, the source being right UNDER Mount Fuji.  I flung open the front door and pulled on my boots while it was shaking, and we debated whether or not

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[japankasasagi]

Hello! Well, I mailed my husband, and told him what I had found (it finally showed up in the Japanese news). He told me to gather info and "be quiet about it", and we'd discuss it when he came home. I've heard that radiation dissipates rapidly over distances. I should probably loaf off here at work and do some research. But it IS really scary to read the Japanese news now, panic mentality is like mob mentality, it just seems to spread, and spread even quicker. :(

[eerian_sadow]

*hugs tight* more quakes are NOT good news on top of everything that's already happened. but i'm very glad that you weren't affected apart from some rattling. (and so, so glad there wasn't another tsunami. your island cannot take more of those right now!)

i find it odd that the English-speaking news outlets know about issues with the reactor, but that it's not being put forth in any of the Japanese outlets. it isn't like that will help quell any panic or anything--not in the internet age, anyway.

(reposting in the right place!)

[shiome]

I'm so sorry dear ;-;
Information and misinformation are running rampant over here, so I don't know exactly what's true, but I did hear that they had left Fukushima 1 because the radiation was too high to work inside it anymore. If you can, I definitely think you should evacuate, just to be extra safe! Please be careful.

[vermilionbird]

((((HUGS)))))

Holy crap. How much worse can this get? Hon, you need to get ready to evacuate, it is always better to be safe than sorry.

I'm sure if it gets too bad, you can always jump over to this side of the Pacific. I have a feeling there are lots of people that would be happy to help you out.

[cookiepron]

How are you doing? My neighbor's parents called yesterday in a panic so when I got home we had a bit of a discussion about what to do in the case that things do go totally pear-shaped at the reactors. Luckily they got the workers back pretty quickly but it's still the sort of thing that sits in the back corners of your mind. Unfortunately while it's sitting there it's flailing it's arms and screaming quietly.

I've been glued to the BBC news website (as they seem to have the best balanced report) and my dad sent me this link to the World Nuclear News. It's so depressing that they think hiding things until people find out about them on English websites will help.