Nuala
Hell's Finest Daughter
- 15 Jul 2004
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I reached the house in the safety.
I returned on foot from the company to a house.
I walked for four hours,It was very cold.
In Tokyo, a small earthquake still continues several times.
Because the office was the 19th floor of the building, the building shook very much.
We saw that a fire occurred in the Shinagawa area.
However, the fire was deleted immediately.
The railroad of Tokyo restored this morning.
I'm glad you're okay, Hiroyuki Hagashima! Please post here if you hear from HalfnHalf. The Miyagi Prefecture was heavily affected by the tsunami, and that's where her profile says she lives. I'm concerned. ._.
Hope that helps make things a little clearer.
It definitely made it clearer for me. Reuters wasn't going into the details very much, they probably thought hole was a good enough description, which it clearly isn't! When I heard a hole had been torn 150 miles long;50 miles across, it sorta made me think to myself, "what does that mean?".
Update: Tony Tharakan reports on Reuters that an explosion was heard at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and then that several people appear to be injured, and now that the outer structure in which the reactor is housed has blown off. The Tokyo fire department is apparently sending a special nuclear rescue team to Fukushima. That doesn't mean much at this point, probably that they're going to be on standby in the area in case the situation grows worse. Government officials of the Fukushima prefecture are saying the reactor's ceiling collapsed. There are apparently two containment walls between the reactor and the environment outside. Unsure if it was the secondary wall or both. The situation seems to be growing dire, will confirm when information becomes available.
Another derailed train has been found in Matsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture.
Update 2(2:49 AM CST): The Jiji news agency has said there had been an explosion at the Daiichi #1 reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant and TV footage is showing vapor rising from the plant. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano has increased the evacuation area around the #2 plant to 10 km. Looking for information on what nuclear power plant the former is referring to, unsure if it's another reactor at the Fukushima power plant or otherwise. Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano has confirmed that there is a radiation leak at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. All four workers injured in the explosion at the nuclear power plant do not have life-threatening injuries, that's good news!
A Japanese guy is dubbing live feeds in English here.
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