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Kyodo News: Radioactive water spilled at Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi

Radioactive water spilled from pools holding spent nuclear fuel rods at the Onagawa power plant in Miyagi Prefecture following the strong earthquake late Thursday, the nuclear safety agency said Friday. At the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant or at another plant in Fukushima Prefecture, meanwhile, no new problems have surfaced since the magnitude 7.1 aftershock of the deadly March 11 quake. [more...]

Spiegel Online: Countdown zum Staatsinfarkt

Jetzt wird's ernst im Parteienstreit um den US-Staatshaushalt: Der Krisengipfel im Weißen Haus ist gescheitert, ab Mitternacht geht der Regierung das Geld aus - mit potentiell dramatischen Folgen. Präsident Obama warnt vor einer Rezession und hofft auf den Last-Minute-Kompromiss. [mehr...]

East earthquake: M7.4 aftershock intensity 6 upper in Miyagi (google Translation)

At around 32 to 11 pm seven days, there is a strong earthquake believed to be aftershocks of earthquake east in the Tohoku region, observing the strong intensity 6 in the city of Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture and Sendai City, intensity 6 lower over a wide region from China Hokkaido - I felt a shake.According to the agency, with the epicenter about 40 kilometers east of the Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture, is the focal depth of 40 km, indicating the scale of the earthquake magnitude (M) is estimated to be 7.4. [more...]

Kyodo News: Strong quake jolts Miyagi Pref. and vicinity, tsunami warning lifted

A strong quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 jolted on Thursday evening Japan's Miyagi Prefecture and its vicinity but no major troubles were reported at nuclear facilities in the areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake, including the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station. [more...]

SEISMIC IRIS - Earthquake Map

Seismic Website

Dates about new Earthquake

Spiegel Online: "Wir sind mit den Nerven völlig am Ende"

Jedes Mal, wenn in Japan die Erde zittert, bangen die Menschen: Gibt es erneut einen Tsunami? Und was ist mit dem Atommeiler in Fukushima? Tausendfach kam es seit dem 11. März zu Nachbeben - dieses Mal war es besonders heftig. Der Mut der sonst so besonnenen Bevölkerung schwindet. [mehr...]

Kyodo News: Nitrogen smoothly injected into Fukushima No. 1 reactor

An operation to reduce the risk of a hydrogen explosion at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi atomic power station's No. 1 reactor by injecting it with nitrogen has gone smoothly, the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday. [more...]

sueddeutsche.de: Milliarden-Kredite gegen die Krise (Japan)

Die japanische Zentralbank versucht zu helfen - und stellt Milliarden für die Banken in der Katastrophenregion bereit. Die Regierung erwägt unterdessen, den geflohenen Menschen kurzzeitig die Rückkehr in die Sperrzone um Fukushima-1 zu erlauben. [mehr...]

taz.de: Neue Grenzwerte für Japan-Importe

Die EU-Kommission plant schärfere Grenzwerte für die radioaktive Belastung von Lebensmitteln aus Japan. Der Vorschlag der Behörde bezieht sich jedoch nur auf den aktuellen Fall. [mehr...]

Spiegel Online: Sperrzone um Fukushima Wie weit ist weit genug?

Hunderte Menschen weigern sich, das Sperrgebiet um das havarierte AKW Fukushima zu verlassen. Eine Ausweitung der Zone hat Japan bisher stets abgelehnt. Eine solche Operation wäre eine immense Herausforderung - wie eine interaktive Grafik zeigt. [mehr...]

IRIS: Recent Earthquake Teachable Moments

Magnitude 9.0 Near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan

A magnitude 9.0 earthquake has occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan, as a result of thrust faulting on or near the subduction zone interface plate boundary between the Pacific and North American plates. This earthquake generated a tsunami, and a tsunami warning was issued throughout the Pacific. [more...]

Japan earthquake - Ham Radio stations map -

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BBC: Japan nuclear plant releases radioactive water into sea

Workers at Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant have begun dumping water with low levels of contamination into the sea to free up room to store more highly radioactive water leaking at the site. [more...]

Geigermap - This map visualises crowd-sourced geiger counter readings from across Japan.

This map visualises crowd-sourced geiger counter readings from across Japan.

The Japan Times: Slideshows - Bilder Gallerien aus Japan

After the quake: Devastation in Tohoku (Rob Gilhooly)

Aftermath in Asahi, Chiba Pref. (Yoshiaki Miura)

Scenes from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Pref. (Sotoko Kawasaki)

Blog: Japan earthquake how to protect yourself - guide to take care and protect yourself during the earthquake- basic advice

The information in this website is translated by university students, professors, native speakers, and many others people (more than 100 volunteers).
1. The purpose and mission of this website
This website was created in response to the Great Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake that struck Japan on March 11. The mission of this website is to provide and spread useful information on earthquake preparedness to non- Japanese speakers living in Japan. Now in 41 languages. [more...]

The Japan Times: Students whip up multilingual site with disaster information

On the day after the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a group of students from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies gathered a group of volunteers to set up a multilingual website for foreign residents seeking information about the disaster. [more...]

Spiegel Online: Fukushima-Strahlung verseucht Todeszone

Sie mussten alles zurücklassen, Häuser, Felder, Vieh: Viele der Menschen, die nach der Fukushima-Katastrophe aus der Gefahrenzone flüchten mussten, können nicht auf eine schnelle Rückkehr hoffen. Messungen in dem Gebiet machen jetzt erstmals das Ausmaß der Radioaktivität in der Luft deutlich. [mehr...]