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**jaxx** · (This post was last modified: 03-12-2011 04:50 AM by jaxx.)

No link, news coming across the wire on the BBC. This will be the day the deaths begin to show up, as the rescuers are able to get to the devastated areas.

(tried to edit to add breaking news, but no go)

**jaxx** · 03-12-2011, 04:45 AM

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1037: Sayaka Matsumoto, from the Red Cross in Tokyo, says the organisation has sent more than 60 medical teams - some 450 doctors and nurses - to the worst-hit area. Those who have arrived in Sendai have opened a tent clinic in front of the city's main government building, she tells the BBC.

**jaxx** · 03-12-2011, 04:57 AM

Japan scrambles to reach trapped victims amid devastation

Shirakawa, Japan (CNN) -- Rescuers plucked dazed survivors from collapsed homes, muddy waters and raging fires Saturday, a day after a powerful earthquake tore through Japan and unleashed waves that swallowed entire neighborhoods along the coast.

More than 900 were killed and about 700 were missing, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported. The number is expected to go up as rescuers reach more hard-hit areas.

The 8.9-magnitude quake was centered about 130 kilometers (80 miles) from Sendai, a farming region already battling youth population losses to big cities, leaving aging residents struggling to keep up with the global economy.

In the nearby city of Shirakawa, rescuers dug through rubble with shovels to try and reach 13 neighbors trapped when the earth opened up and swallowed their homes.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03...tml?hpt=T1

**jaxx** · 03-12-2011, 05:10 AM

Photos of the earthquake and tsunami.......

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/...mc=thab1#1

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:17 AM

thank you for these updates, jaxx.

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:20 AM

did adding "breaking news" not work using "full edit"?

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:27 AM

the Pacific was very fortunate, as far as the tsunami went!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar...rmath-live

11.11am: Here's more details from Oxfam on the impact of the tsunami on Pacific island nations.

Papua New Guinea: The Boram hospital in Wewak suffered serious damage when it was flooded by waves. Around 50 of the 100 patients were evacuated to the police station compound where most are lying outside. Heavy rains are now reported in the area, causing concerns about sanitation.

The Solomon Islands: The worst damage was in the northern Isabel province. "The water is reported to have reached 50 metres inland and in one village, a house was destroyed and several canoes washed into the sea," said Oxfam representative Joe Weber

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**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:33 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

1128: Car manufacturer Toyota says it will suspend operations at all 12 of its factories in Japan on Monday while it confirms the safety of its employees. One of its subsidiaries, Central Motor Company, has a factory in Miyagi prefecture, near Sendai, which produces the Yaris model.

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jaxx, i am using this thread of yours to add breaking earthquake news.
thank you!

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:35 AM

this is a live feed:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar...rmath-live

11.20am: AP has more details of the scene of devastation in Sendai, the biggest city in the area near the quake's epicentre.

Miles from the ocean's edge, weary, mud-spattered survivors wandered streets strewn with fallen trees, crumpled cars, even small airplanes. Relics of lives now destroyed were everywhere half a piano, a textbook, a soiled red sleeping bag.
Rescue workers plied boats through murky waters around flooded structures, nosing their way through a sea of detritus, while smoke from at least one large fire billowed in the distance. Power and phone reception was cut, while hundreds of people lined up outside the few still-operating supermarkets for basic commodities. The gas stations on streets not covered with water were swamped with people waiting to fill their cars

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**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:42 AM

check this out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

1135: Alan Margerison, a British businessman living in Tokyo, describes the scene there as relatively calm. "I went out into Shibuya, one of the downtown areas, it's normally very busy on the weekend. Today there were not as many people around... there were people getting their hair done in the salons, I saw some people having their nails done. I think in Tokyo, people are trying to get back to life as it normally is, but they're also very worried about the news they're hearing."

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wow, ah? do ANYTHING, just so it feels like life going on!

**jaxx** · 03-12-2011, 05:44 AM

Survival means move on and keep living. Those being rescued will try to do the same on a different scale.

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:47 AM

(03-12-2011 05:44 AM)jaxx Wrote: Survival means move on and keep living. Those being rescued will try to do the same on a different scale.

very well said, jaxx.

unimaginable

**Hekate** · 03-13-2011, 03:46 AM

(03-12-2011 05:44 AM)jaxx Wrote: Survival means move on and keep living. Those being rescued will try to do the same on a different scale.

Immediately after the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles the evening news in Santa Barbara (and later on, the local newspaper itself) was full of sidebar stories of how people here tried to get their morning coffee with the electricity completely gone. One little breakfast shop ran a cord into the fire station next door, I believe. (I myself have a gas stove, so I dragged the old Melitta carafe out and made drip coffee. Fortunately I didn't have to grind the beans first.)

I was awakened before dawn by the rolling of the earth, and we lost electricity seconds later. I knew that it was a big earthquake with the epicenter someplace else. I remembered how many times when I was still having to get up at 6:00 a.m. that if it was foggy my clock radio would wake me up with some station in San Diego, so I took a chance that the radio in my car would be able to pick it up, and I was right.

As I listened to all the coffee stories I realized: We were giddy with relief that It Wasn't Us. It was only a sidebar -- because we're all connected somehow to people in any earthquake region in our state.

But locally, we were okay. Worried and horrified as we were for friends and relations a hundred miles to the south, we were normalizing as best we could.

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:46 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

1143: Naoto Kan: More than 50-60 countries have expressed sympathies, US President Barack Obama has called.

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 05:54 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

1151: Damian Grammaticus has just arrived in Sendai. He says there are truly astonishing scenes of devastation at the harbour there, there are shipping containers that have been swept inland and smashed against buildings and trees and rubble strewn across the streets.

**jaxx** · 03-12-2011, 05:56 AM

I just read that and it came to mind, where will all the debris go? Buried at sea?

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 06:05 AM

(03-12-2011 05:56 AM)jaxx Wrote: I just read that and it came to mind, where will all the debris go? Buried at sea?

o my, what a thought. floating all over the world!
another debris island in the Pacific? Shrug

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 06:09 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

1207: Voice of America's Steve Herman tweets: "In Fukushima-ken. We have 3G mobile sig but no internet access. Most places have no water. Electricity on however."

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 06:23 AM

are you there, jaxx? are you staying on?

"the electricity is on."
the plant might be cooling down ...

i best head off. i can not thank you enough for watching and posting this with me on your vitally important update threads. i hope others got info they sought.

thank you so much, jaxx!! Hug

**jaxx** · 03-12-2011, 06:47 AM

I'm staying. Take care, you are a great news partner! Hug

**nofurylike** · 03-12-2011, 06:56 AM

(03-12-2011 06:47 AM)jaxx Wrote: I'm staying. Take care, you are a great news partner!

thanks!

likewise, jaxx!
Hug

**jaxx** · 03-12-2011, 07:03 AM

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1252: Japan's Fuji TV has run a screen caption saying that as many as 10,000 people are missing in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture.

**jaxx** · 03-12-2011, 07:52 AM

81 rescued from ship swept off by tsunami, reports say
Vessel was carrying dock workers; 4 trains missing, fifth derailed

TOKYO — A ship that was swept away by the tsunami on Japan's northeastern coast was found and all 81 aboard were airlifted to safety, the AFP news agency reported Friday, citing Japanese news reports.

<..> Four trains running in a coastal area of Miyagi and Iwate prefectures remained unaccounted for after the tsunami hit.

It was not known how many people were aboard the trains.

Another train on the Senseki Line was found derailed near Nobiru Station after the quake. No information was available about the fate of the passengers and crew on the train.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42028508/ns/...siapacific

Rescue efforts will be huge. I hope they find many, many survivors.

**Treestar** · 03-12-2011, 08:19 AM

Thank you two for keeping this going. It's better than watching the news!

**nofurylike** · 03-13-2011, 04:39 AM

(03-12-2011 08:19 AM)Treestar Wrote: Thank you two for keeping this going. It's better than watching the news!

the least ....

thank you, Treestar.

**jaxx** · (This post was last modified: 03-12-2011 08:39 AM by jaxx.)

From the BBC twitter

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1416: In Fukushima residents are lining up in town centres to collect drinking water as helicopters airlift the injured to hospital, Reuters reports

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1422: A US navy vessel is loading aid supplies in Singapore and will sail for Japan shortly, NHK reports

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1427: More than 300,000 people have now been evacuated from homes in northern Japan and that number will rise as the government increases the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Kyodo reports

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1355: At least 1.4m homes are without water following the quake, according to government officials. 59 water trucks have been sent to the worst-hit areas. Some 3m are without power and utility companies say it will take some time to restore supplies.

**Cha** · 03-13-2011, 02:09 AM

Many thanks for the info jaxx & nofurylike on what these people are going through. It's an horrific tragedy but I feel it honors them in some way to know and wish them well across the Universe. Grouphug

**nofurylike** · 03-13-2011, 04:43 AM

(03-13-2011 02:09 AM)Cha Wrote: Many thanks for the info jaxx & nofurylike on what these people are going through. It's an horrific tragedy but I feel it honors them in some way to know and wish them well across the Universe.

the least ....

as you say, "it honors them in some way ... " Grouphug

thank you, Cha.

**jaxx** · 03-13-2011, 04:16 AM

Living in IL we have had a couple moments of quakes in the last 25 years. Kind of rolls, over in a flash. Where I live wasn't in the quake area. I can't imagine waking to a quake in progress, you who live in those areas are brave. Your story is reassuring as to the coping of people. Good thinking to use your car radio Hekate.

***azmouse*** · 03-13-2011, 10:59 AM

I've been seeing the pictures of the devastation on tv and on the interwebs.... it's easy to believe the death toll will be in the 10's of thousands just from the earthquake. How many more will die in the next days and months from injuries? Horrible beyond any possible belief.... Cry