Tsunami
After the recent earthquake Alaska faces a new threat - tsunami
June 24, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Earthquakes and tsunami again threaten Alaska. This Thursday evening there had occurred an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 points in the Pacific Ocean off Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands. As announced, scientists...
June 23, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia/ Chişinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- This Thursday a strong earthquake has occurred with magnitude 6.7 Richter scale in Near East Coast of Honshu, Japan at 5.50am on 23 June 2011. The earthquake epicenter is located at 39.9 North latitude...
Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan 'unready for typhoon'
May 29, 2011Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is not fully prepared for heavy rain and winds of a typhoon heading towards the country, officials admit. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), which runs the plant, said some reactor buildings were uncovered, prompting...
Japan moves people beyond bigger Fukushima no-go zone
May 16, 2011Residents have been moved further away from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant as the no-go zone is extended and repair works are halted. People left their homes in the two towns of Kawamata and Iitate to spend their first night in evacuation centres...
Japan: Huge troop search for quake and tsunami bodies
April 25, 2011Japan has deployed nearly 25,000 troops to search for the bodies of those missing since the earthquake and tsunami that devastated north-eastern areas more than six weeks ago. The search is the third such large-scale effort since the disaster. Twelve...
Japan bans entry into Fukushima evacuation zone
April 21, 2011Japan has made it illegal to enter a 20km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor. People were urged to leave the area shortly after the 11 March earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant, but the order was not enforced...
Tepco to compensate Japan's nuclear plant victims
April 15, 2011The Japanese government has ordered the operator of the nuclear plant damaged by last month's quake and tsunami to pay compensation to affected families. About 48,000 families who lived within 30km (18 miles) of the Fukushima Daiichi plant will be eligible...
Japan quake: Police search for bodies near plant
April 14, 2011Japanese police have begun searching for victims of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami within a 10km zone around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. Up to 1,000 bodies are thought to be in the area, but their retrieval has been delayed because of radiation...
First of Japan disaster survivors get temporary houses
April 12, 2011A month after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, more than 125,000 people remain in evacuation centers. Others are living with relatives. Most of them were made homeless by the March 11 natural disaster...
Japan raises severity of Fukushima accident to highest level
April 12, 2011Japan has raised its evaluation of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to the highest level on the international nuclear accident scale -- level seven. The upgrade makes Fukushima only the second nuclear accident ever to rank at level seven. The...