日核電廠 4級意外事故(福島第1核電廠1號機)InternationalNuclear and Ra...
宮城、海岸部に遺体３００人 空港屋上に１３００人避難
2011年3月12日9時16分
宮城県気仙沼市では、いたるところから煙が上がっていた＝１２日午前７時２５分、朝日新聞社機から、樫山晃生撮影
津波でがれきとなった街並みが広がる気仙沼港＝１２日午前８時２２分、宮城県気仙沼市、小宮路勝撮影
近くに火災がせまる中、屋上でヘリに向かって救助を求める人たち＝１２日午前６時５７分、仙台市若林区、朝日新聞社ヘリから、矢木隆晴撮影
県警ヘリで救助される人。後方は脱線したＪＲ仙石線の車両＝１２日午前７時３６分、宮城県東松島市、朝日新聞社ヘリから、矢木隆晴撮影
宮城県対策本部や県警によると、１２日早朝時点で、沿岸部の仙台市荒浜地区で２００人ぐらいの遺体が打ち上げられ、名取市付近でも１００人程度の遺体を確認したという。
仙台空港の施設屋上に１３００人が避難しているほか、石巻市や気仙沼市では、幼稚園や小学校、診療所、ビルなどに多くの人が取り残されているという。
仙台市ではなお、火災が多数発生。女川町では役場が水没し、近くの民家に機能を移して対応している。
同対策本部によると、菅直人首相は１２日午前、福島と宮城県をヘリで上空から視察する。
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死者４０人、行方不明３９人、負傷２４４人 警察庁発表
2011年3月11日20時40分 ****
日本地震導致東京有14處地區發生火災
日本東北部沿岸周五（3月11日）發生140年來規模最大的地震後，引發多次大海嘯，災情繼續擴大。
日本仙台以東約130公里的海域當地時間下午2時46分左右發生了這次里氏8.9級的大地震，東京和大阪都受到強烈震感，並引起災情。
地震發生後日本東京地區就有4百萬戶家庭停電，東京有14處地區發生火災，包括郊區的一個煉油廠。仙台等其它多個城市也都發生火災。
日本東北部的高速鐵路、震區的多處機場、鐵路和東京地鐵等交通幹線已經停運。多處核電站自動關閉。
目前日本多處地區陸續已經報告出現傷亡情況。最新報道稱，已經有人至少32人死亡。
日本政府已經派出9百多名救援人員趕往地震最嚴重的地區。日本自衛隊的8架軍用飛機對地震災情進行了評估。
大海嘯
日本地震海嘯在亞太地區傳播圖
這次地震還引發了至少5波大海嘯，其中最嚴重的一次高達10米。
電視畫面顯示海浪摧毀農舍、農田、公路和車輛等。據報數百人被泥石流等災難圍困。
日本首相菅直人中斷正在召開的會議，發表電視講話，通報災情，對災民表示慰問，呼籲保持冷靜。
周邊國家
因日本地震，太平洋海域的台灣、俄羅斯、印尼、菲律賓、美國夏威夷和西海岸等地也發佈了海嘯預警。
發佈海嘯警報的國家還有菲利賓、印度尼西亞、澳大利亞、巴布亞新幾內亞、墨西哥、巴拿馬、秘魯等。
美國夏威夷下令疏散沿海低窪地區的民眾。
日本政府機構稱，有更多發生強烈餘震以及更多海嘯的可能。
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Very strong quake rattles Japan
2011/03/11
Smoke rises from a building near Tokyo Bay in this photo taken from the waterfront district of Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Friday. (Mitsuyoshi Amata)
Cans of beer toppled from shelves at this liquor store in Tokyo's Koto Ward during a strong earthquake that hit Friday. (Azumi Fukuoka)
Cans of beer are strewn across the floor of a liquor store in Tokyo's Koto Ward after a strong quake jolted eastern Japan on Friday. (Azumi Fukuoka)
Editor's note: We will update our earthquake news as frequently as possile on AJW's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/AJW.Asahi. Please check to keep informed on what’s happening. / Toshio Jo, managing editor at International Division, The Asahi Shimbun.
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An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 struck off the northern coast of Japan on Friday, shaking buildings in Tokyo and triggering tsunami warnings.
It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties. Smoke could be seen billowing from some buildings in the capital.
The Japan Meteorological Agency put the epicenter of the quake off the eastern coast of Miyagi Prefecture, which is part of the Tohoku region.
The temblor hit at 2:46 p.m. and was followed by strong aftershocks.
According to reports, the quake had an intensity of 7 on the Japanese scale of 7 in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, and upper 6 in parts of Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures.
Services on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line, as well as on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines, were suspended.
Warnings for large tsunami were issued for the Pacific coast of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. Tsunami warnings were also issued for coastal areas of Hokkaido, Aomori, Ibaraki, Chiba, and Shizuoka prefectures.
All services on the Tokyo Metro subway systems in the Tokyo metropolitan area were stopped.
The government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan set up an emergency disaster headquarters.
(This article was compiled from The Asahi Shimbun and wire reports.)
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Huge Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Off Japan’s Coast
The tsunami, seen crashing into homes in Natori, Miyagi prefecture.
By MARTIN FACKLER and KEVIN DREW
Published: March 11, 2011
TOKYO — A devastating tsunami hit the coast of northeast Japan on Friday in the aftermath of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake about 80 miles offshore, killing at least 23 people and injuring many more. The earthquake triggered widespread power blackouts, and countries across the Pacific Ocean, from Russia to South America and including Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States, braced for possible tsunami waves.
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Part of houses swallowed by the tsunami burning in Sendai.
NHK, via Associated Press
Houses were washed away by tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in eastern Japan, after Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the northeastern coast.
Yomiuri, via Reuters
Rescue workers attended to people injured by the earthquake in Tokyo.
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A refinery plant in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo was on fire after the earthquake.
NHK, via Reuters TV
A tsunami carried boats across waters in Kamaishi city port in this still image taken from video footage.
NHK TV, via Associated Press
In this image made off Japan’s NHK TV video footage, vehicles are washed away by a tsunami in eastern Japan after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off of the northeastern coast Friday.
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Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the disaster caused major damage across wide areas, The Associated Press reported. But he said there had been no leakage of radiation or radioactive material from nuclear facilities..
The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake had a magnitude of 8.9, and occurred at about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo and at a revised depth of about 17 miles, the American agency said. The Japanese Meteorological Agency said the quake had a magnitude of 8.8. News reports said it ranked among the biggest in a century.
Tsunami waves swept away houses and cars in northern Japan and pushed ships aground. Trains were shut down across central and northern Japan, including Tokyo, and air travel was severely disrupted. The government held an emergency session to coordinate response as the death toll rose to 23 in five prefectures, officials said. At least 30 people were injured in the cities of Tokyo and Osaka.
The quake, which the broadcaster NHK described as the worst on record in Japan, occurred at 2:46 p.m. Tokyo time and hit off Honshu, Japan’s most populous island. The quake was so powerful that buildings in central Tokyo, designed to withstand major earthquakes, swayed.
“This tremor was unlike any I’ve experienced previously, and I’ve lived here for eight years. It was a sustained rolling that made it impossible to stand, almost like vertigo,” said Matt Alt, an American writer and translator living in Tokyo.
Television images showed waves of more than 12 feet roaring inland. The tsunami drew a line of white fury across the ocean, heading toward the shoreline. Cars and trucks were still moving on highways as the water rushed toward them.
The floodwaters, thick with floating debris shoved inland, pushed aside heavy trucks as if they were toys, in some places carrying blazing buildings toward factories, fields, highways, bridges and homes. The spectacle was all the more remarkable for being carried live on television, even as the waves engulfed flat farmland that offered no resistance.
The force of the waves washed away cars on coastal roads and crashed into buildings along the shore. Television footage showed a tsunami wave bearing down on the Japanese coastline near the community of Sendai.
NHK television transmitted aerial images of columns of flame rising from an oil refinery and flood waters engulfing Sendai airport, where survivors clustered on the roof of the airport building. The runway was partially submerged. The refinery fire sent a plume of thick black smoke from blazing spherical storage tanks. A television commentator called the blaze an “inferno.”
The images showed survivors in a home surrounded by water, waving white sheets from the upper floors of buildings. News reports said the earthquake had forced the Tokyo subways to empty while airports were closed and many residents took to the streets, desperately trying to leave the city.
Initial television coverage from coastal areas showed very few people actually in the water. The initial impact of the wave seemed to have been enormous, tipping two huge cargo vessels on their sides at one port and tearing others from their moorings.
Smaller vessels, including what looked like commercial fishing trawlers, were carried inland, smashing into the superstructure of bridges as the waters surged. A senior Japanese official said foreign countries had offered to help and Japan was prepared to seek overseas assistance.
Japanese television showed major tsunami damage in northern Japan. Public broadcaster NHK reported that a large ship swept away by the tsunami rammed directly into a breakwater in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture. Video footage also showed buildings on fire in the Odaiba district of Tokyo, The Associated Press reported.
“It just seemed to go on and on,” Katherine Wallace told the BBC, who was in an office building in Tokyo, said of the quake tremor.
A second major earthquake of 7.4 magnitude was reported as aftershocks shook the region. Japanese media reported mobile phone networks were not working.
Power blackouts were affecting about 2 million residents around Tokyo alone, the government said. Cell phone service was severely affected across central and northern Japan as residents rushed to call friends and relatives as aftershocks struck.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center extended a tsunami warning across most of the Pacific Ocean, and said the tsunami would threaten coastal areas of Russia, Taiwan, Hawaii, Indonesia, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea and Australia later in the day. The agency, based in Hawaii, added the west coasts of the United States, Mexico, Central America and South America to the list of countries that given tsunami alerts.
The tsunami warning was later expanded to include much of Alaska, all of the California coast north from Santa Barbara, and Oregon. The rest of Southern California, Washington and British Columbia were under an advisory, the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said. A warning means that people in low-lying areas should evacuate due to the threat of flooding; an advisory cautions that the tsunami could cause dangerous currents and waves but that major flooding is not expected. The center said that initial tsunami waves could hit Homer, Alaska, about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, shortly after 4 a.m. local time GMT, and that waves could hit California and Oregon about an hour later, or about 7 a.m. local time.
In Honolulu, a tsunami watch was upgraded to a tsunami warning at about 9:30 pm local time, with the wave, if it materialized, forecast to arrive in the Hawaiian islands at 2:59 a.m. The tsunami warning sirens were briefly sounded. In the Waikiki district, lines formed at gas stations.
Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said that the tsunami had reached the Russian-controlled Kurile Islands north of Hokkaido, Japan at about 6 p.m. local time. “The tsunami has reached three population centers in the Kurile Island chain. The average height of the wave has been recorded at less than one meter. There have been no casualties or damage,” the ministry said in a statement. In response to the tsunami threat, about 11,000 people have been evacuated from four population centers in the Kuriles, the ministry said.
The quake occurred in what is called a subduction zone, where one of the Earth’s tectonic plates is sliding beneath another. In this case, the Pacific plate is sliding beneath the North American at a rate of about 3 inches a year. The earthquake occurred at a depth of about 15 miles, which while relatively shallow by global standards is about normal for quakes in this zone, said Emily So, an engineer with the United States Geological Survey in Golden, Colo.
Ms. So said that according to her agency’s calculations, the quake was of magnitude 8.9. It had been preceded by what seismologists call foreshocks — smaller quakes in the same area. The largest of these was a magnitude 7.2 quake two days before, centered about 25 miles south of the spot where the earthquake struck Friday.
In a subduction quake that occurs underwater, as this one did, the sudden movement of a portion of one of the plates can displace enormous amounts of water, triggering a tsunami. As the tsunami waves approach shallow coastal areas, they tend to increase in height.
The devastation often comes from a succession of waves, with the first few being relatively small. The waves can propagate across oceans at speeds of 500 miles an hour or greater. With Friday’s quake occurring only about 80 miles offshore, people in the closest coastal areas would not have had much time to evacuate.
Speaking on CNN, Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, said residents in Hawaii and the West Coast should prepare for coastal flooding. He said there was a “full coastal evacuation” underway in Hawaii. He said that gauges at Midway Island in the Pacific were registering a wave amplitude of about 5 feet, but that that might increase by the time the waves reached Hawaii. Even a 5-foot wave can be devastating, he said, because of the nature of tsunami waves. “There’s a tremendous amount of water” in them, he said. Mr. Fryer said that concerns that the waves might wash over entire low-lying islands in the Pacific were unfounded. “Washing over islands is not going to happen,” he said.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, was briefed on the disaster during a trip to Brussels. Geoffrey Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, said there were no reports of damage to American military facilities or naval vessels.
At the headquarters of the Navy’s Seventh Fleet in Yokosuka, Japan, sailors were preparing for a potential tsunami. “We’ve issued instructions to our pierside ships in Yokosuka to stand by their lines to be prepared to quickly adjust them as necessary to prevent damage during any resulting tsunami,” said Cmdr. Jeff Davis, the Seventh Fleet spokesman.
It was unclear on Friday morning to what extent the American military in the Pacific was preparing to help with disaster response.
The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong and the Straits Times in Singapore slumped after news of the quake, ending about 1.6 percent and 1 percent down, respectively.
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