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Seawalls Offered Little Protection Against Tsunami’s Crushing Waves ............................... 2

Partial Meltdowns Presumed at Crippled Reactors .......................................................... 6

Several Plant Workers Are Ill, but Radiation Risk in Japan Is Seen as Low for Now................ 9

Military Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation, but Officials Call Risk in U.S. Slight ............ 12

Death Toll Estimate in Japan Soars as Relief Efforts Intensify ........................................... 15

Seawalls Offered Little Protection Against Tsunami’s Crushing Waves

A tsunami surge poured over a seawall in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, shortly after the earthquake last Friday.

By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: March 13, 2011

JAKARTA, Indonesia — At least 40 percent of Japan?s 22,000-mile coastline is lined with concrete seawalls, breakwaters or other structures meant to protect the country against high waves, typhoons or even tsunamis. They are as much a part of Japan?s coastal scenery as beaches or fishing boats, especially in areas where the government estimates the possibility of a major earthquake occurring in the next three decades at more than 90 percent, like the northern stretch that was devastated by Friday?s earthquake and tsunami.

Along with developing quake-resistant buildings, the coastal infrastructure represents postwar Japan?s major initiative against earthquakes and tsunamis. But while experts have praised Japan?s rigorous building codes and

quake-resistant buildings for limiting the number of casualties from Friday?s earthquake, the devastation in coastal areas and a final death toll predicted to exceed 10,000 could push Japan to redesign its seawalls — or reconsider its heavy reliance on them altogether.

The risks of dependence on seawalls were most evident in the crisis at the Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants, both located along the coast close to the earthquake zone. The tsunami that followed the quake washed over

walls that were supposed to protect the plants, disabling the diesel

generators crucial to maintaining power for the reactors? cooling systems during shutdown.

Cooling system malfunctions caused overheating and partial fuel meltdowns at two reactors at the Daiichi plant, becoming Japan?s worst nuclear accident.

Peter Yanev, one of the world?s best-known consultants on designing nuclear plants to withstand earthquakes, said the seawalls at the Japanese plants probably could not handle tsunami waves of the height that struck them. And the diesel generators were situated in a low spot on the

assumption that the walls were high enough to protect against any likely tsunami.

That turned out to be a fatal miscalculation. The tsunami walls either should have been built higher, or the generators should have been placed on higher ground to withstand potential flooding, he said. Increasing the height of tsunami walls, he said, is the obvious answer in the immediate term. “The cost is peanuts compared to what is happening,” Mr. Yanev said. Some critics have long argued that the construction of seawalls was a mistaken, hubristic effort to control nature as well as the kind of wasteful public works project that successive Japanese governments used to reward politically connected companies in flush times and to try to kick-start a stagnant economy. Supporters, though, have said the seawalls increased the odds of survival in a quake-prone country, where a mountainous interior has historically pushed people to live along its coastline.

A fuller picture of how seawalls protected or failed to protect areas beyond the nuclear plants will not emerge for at least a few more days. But reports from affected areas indicate that waves simply washed over seawalls, some of which collapsed. Even in the two cities with seawalls built specifically to withstand tsunamis, Ofunato and Kamaishi, the tsunami crashed over before moving a few miles inland, carrying houses and cars with it.

In Kamaishi, 14-foot waves surmounted the seawall — the world?s largest, erected a few years ago in the city?s harbor at a depth of 209 feet, a length of 1.2 miles and a cost of $1.5 billion — and eventually submerged the city center.

“This is going to force us to rethink our strategy,” said Yoshiaki Kawata, a specialist on disaster management at Kansai University in Osaka and the director of a disaster prevention center in Kobe. “This kind of hardware just isn?t effective.”

Mr. Kawata said that antitsunami seawalls were “costly public works projects” that Japan could no longer afford. “The seawalls did reduce the force of the tsunami, but it was so big that it didn?t translate into a reduction in damage,” he said, adding that resources would be better spent on increasing evacuation education and drills.

Gerald Galloway, a research professor of engineering at the University of Maryland, said one problem with physical defenses protecting vulnerable areas was that they could create a sense of complacency. “There are challenges in telling people they are safe” when the risks remain, he said.

Whatever humans build, nature has a way of overcoming it. Mr. Galloway noted that New Orleans is getting a substantial upgrade of its hurricane protection system, but he said, “If all the new levees were in and we had a Katrina times two, a lot of people are going to still get wet.” Similarly, he said, some of the floodwalls in Japan, which can be almost 40 feet high, but vary from place to place, were simply too low for the wave.

“If a little bit dribbles over the top, you get a little wet inside,” he said. “If it?s a massive amount, then you get buildings washed away.”

Some Japanese experts said the seawalls may have played a useful role in this crisis.

“This time, almost everybody tried to flee, but many didn?t succeed in fleeing,” said Shigeo Takahashi, a researcher at the Asia-Pacific Center for Coastal Disaster Research in Yokosuka. “But because of the seawalls, which slowed the arrival of waves even just by a little, a lot of people who would not have otherwise survived probably did. Just one or two minutes makes a difference.”

As of Sunday, the Japanese authorities confirmed 1,300 casualties but

expected that the final toll would exceed 10,000, with almost all the deaths resulting directly from the tsunami.

But it remains far from clear whether even such an elevated toll will damp Japan?s embrace of seawalls, whose construction over the years has fueled heavy investment in Japan?s public works, especially in rural areas with

weak economies but dependable votes. If private companies spearheaded the development of quake-resistant buildings, the seawalls are the products of the same Japanese governments that built networks of unnecessary roads and bridges throughout the country, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. The construction of seawalls continued in the last decade, and at least two massive antitsunami seawalls are under construction. One in Kuji, a city in Iwate Prefecture that was damaged in Friday?s tsunami, was scheduled to be completed soon.

Massive antitsunami seawalls tend to be located in harbors and number around a dozen nationwide, Mr. Kawata said. But smaller seawalls, often reaching as high as 40 feet, and other structures extend along more than 40 percent of the nation?s coastline, according to figures from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

The seawalls are typically built along the shoreline of inhabited areas. They tend to restrict access to the shore and block the view of the sea from inland, often casting shadows on houses built along the shore. Environmentalists and tourism officials have described them as eyesores; fishermen have also been among their fiercest critics, complaining that they need to see the sea from their homes.

Critics have said that the seawalls reduce coastal residents? understanding of the sea and their ability to determine when to flee by looking for clues in changing wave patterns.

The height of seawalls varies according to the predictions of the highest waves in a region. Critics say that no matter how high the seawalls are raised, there will eventually be a higher wave. Indeed, the waves from Friday?s tsunami far exceeded predictions for Japan?s northern region. Seawalls also tend to be built in areas that have suffered tsunamis. But

because seawalls cannot be constructed along all of a community?s shoreline, they tend to be clustered along stretches that have been directly hit, leaving other areas exposed.

“The perverse thing about tsunamis is that when they come again,” Mr. Kawata said, “they usually don?t come at the same place they did before.”

Keith Bradsher contributed reporting from Hong Kong, and John Schwartz from New York

The Japanese government is handing out iodine pills to flood the thyroid gland with ordinary iodine in hopes of preventing it from taking up the radioactive form. Dr. Brenner said the iodine pills were protective, but were “a bit of a myth” because their use is based on the belief that the risk is from inhaling radioactive iodine. Actually, he said, 98 percent of people?s exposure comes from milk and other dairy products.

“The way radioactive iodine gets into human beings is an indirect route,” he said. “It falls to the ground, cows eat it and make milk with radioactive iodine, and you get it from drinking the milk. You get very little from inhaling it. The way to prevent it is just to stop people from drinking the milk.”

He said that the epidemic of thyroid cancer around Chernobyl could have been prevented if the government had immediately stopped people from drinking milk. Crops can also be contaminated. “I wouldn?t be eating an apple from a tree close to the plant,” Dr. Brenner said.

Children, and fetuses, are more vulnerable to radiation than are adults. And scientists estimate that about 5 percent of the population is genetically more susceptible to radiation than the rest.

The radioactive elements released from the reactor form clouds that are carried off by the prevailing winds. Again, the risk depends on how much is released. “As it?s being blown away, to some extent it?s being dispersed,” Dr. Brenner said. “And some of it falls on the ground.”

One way of measuring radiation exposure is in a unit called the rem. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, most people in the United States receive 0.3 rem per year just from normal, background radiation. Flying for 12 hours at 39,000 feet exposes a person to 0.006 rem. At 5 to 10 rem, lab tests can pick up changes in blood chemistry. Nausea starts after 50 rem, hemorrhaging at 100 rem. At 500 rem, half of people exposed will die within 30 days. At 2,000 rem, a person can die within hours or days. So far, one employee at a nuclear plant in Japan has been reported to have had an exposure of 10 rem, not enough to produce obvious symptoms. The annual dose limit for workers at nuclear plants in the United States is 5 rem. People are so afraid of radiation that any threat of exposure can cause what Dr.

Brenner called psychophysical consequences. He cited an incident in 1987 in Goiania, Brazil, in which people were exposed to radioactive material stolen from a hospital.

Fearing contamination, about 125,000 sought medical exams. Thousands reported symptoms of radiation sickness, like vomiting and rashes. Ultimately, only 249 turned out to have any signs of contamination.

Military Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation, but Officials Call Risk in U.S. Slight

By WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: March 13, 2011

The Pentagon was expected to announce that the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which is sailing in the Pacific, passed through a radioactive cloud from stricken nuclear reactors in Japan, causing crew members on deck to receive a month?s worth of radiation in about an hour, government officials said Sunday

The officials added that American helicopters flying missions about 60 miles north of the damaged reactors became coated with particulate radiation that had to be washed off.

There was no indication that any of the military personnel had experienced ill effects from the exposure. (Everyone is exposed to a small amount of natural background radiation.)

But the episodes showed that the prevailing winds were picking up

radioactive material from crippled reactors in northeastern Japan. Ever since an earthquake struck Japan on Friday, the authorities worldwide have been laying plans to map where radioactive plumes might blow and determine what, if any, danger they could pose to people.

Blogs were churning with alarm. But officials insisted that unless the

quake-damaged nuclear plants deteriorated into full meltdown, any radiation that reached the United States would be too weak to do any harm. Washington had “hypothetical plots” for worst-case plume dispersal within hours of the start of the crisis, a senior official said Sunday. The aim, the official added, was “more to help Japan” than the United States, since few experts foresaw high levels of radiation reaching the West Coast.

For now, the prevailing winds over Japan were blowing eastward across the Pacific. If they continue to do so, international stations for radioactive

tracking at Wake or Midway Islands might detect radiation later this week,

said Annika Thunborg, a spokeswoman for an arm of the United Nations in Vienna that monitors the planet for spikes in radioactivity.

“At this point, we have not picked up anything” in detectors midway

between Japan and Hawaii, Ms. Thunborg said in an interview on Sunday. “We?re talking a couple of days — nothing before Tuesday — in terms of picking something up.”

Agencies involved in the tracking efforts include the World Meteorological Organization, theInternational Atomic Energy Agency and

the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, which runs a global network of more than 60 stations that sniff the air for radiation spikes. In the United States, the Departments of Defense and Energy maintain large facilities and cadres of specialists for tracking airborne releases of radiation, both civilian and military.

On Sunday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it expected no

“harmful levels of radioactivity” to move on the winds to Hawaii, Alaska or the West Coast from the reactors in Japan, “given the thousands of miles between the two countries.”

In interviews, some private nuclear experts called a windborne threat unlikely. Others urged caution.

“We?re all worrying about it,” said Robert Alvarez, a nuclear expert who, from 1993 to 1999, was a policy adviser to the secretary of energy, who runs the nation?s nuclear complex.

“It?s going to be very important,” he added, “for the Japanese and U.S.

authorities to inform the public about the nature of the plumes and any need for precautionary measures.”

The plume issue has arisen before. In 1986, radiation spewing from the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine was spread around the globe on winds and reached the West Coast in 10 days. It was judged more of a curiosity than a threat.

Since then, scientists have refined their abilities to monitor such atmospheric releases. The advances are rooted in the development of new networks of radiation detectors, flotillas of imaging satellites and the advent of

supercomputers that can model the subtle complexities of the wind to draw up advanced forecasts.

With the Japanese crisis, popular apprehension has also soared.

“Concern has been raised about a massive radioactive cloud escaping and sweeping over the West Coast,” said a recent blog, recommending whole grains and health foods for fighting radiation poisoning.

On another blog, someone asked, “Should I take iodine now?” That referred to pills that can prevent poisoning from the atmospheric release of iodine-131, a radioactive byproduct of nuclear plants that the Japanese authorities have identified as escaping into the atmosphere.

While federal officials expected little danger in the United States from Japanese plumes, they were taking no chances. On Sunday, Energy Department officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the agency was working on three fronts.

One main player is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Officials said they had activated its National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, which draws on meteorologists, nuclear scientists and computer scientists to forecast plume dispersal.

Separately, energy officials said the agency was readying plans to deploy two-person monitoring and sampling teams, if necessary. The teams would travel to consulates, military installations and Navy ships to sample the air in a coordinated effort to improve plume tracking.

Finally, the department was preparing what it calls its Aerial Measuring System. Its detectors and analytical equipment can be mounted on a variety of aircraft. Officials said the equipment and monitoring team are staged out of the department?s Remote Sensing Laboratory at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, and are on two-hour call.

“We?re on top of this,” a department official said. David E. Sanger contributed reporting from Washington.

Death Toll Estimate in Japan Soars as Relief Efforts Intensify

Toshiyuki Tsunenari/Asahi Shimbun, via Associated Press

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By MARTIN FACKLER and MARK McDONALD Published: March 13, 2011

SENDAI, Japan — Japan faced mounting humanitarian and nuclear emergencies Sunday as the death toll from Friday?s earthquake and tsunami climbed astronomically, partial meltdowns occurred at two crippled plants and cooling problems struck four more reactors

In one town alone, the port of Minamisanriku, a senior police official said the number of dead would “certainly be more than 10,000.” The overall number is also certain to climb as searchers began to reach coastal villages that essentially vanished under the first muddy surge of the tsunami, which struck the nation?s northern Pacific coast. Prime Minister Naoto Kan told a news conference late Sunday: “I think that the earthquake, tsunami and the situation at our nuclear reactors makes up the worst crisis in the 65 years since the war. If the nation works together, we will overcome.”

The government ordered 100,000 troops into relief roles in the field —

nearly half the country?s active military force and the largest mobilization in postwar Japan. An American naval strike group led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan also arrived off Japan on Sunday to help with refueling, supply and rescue duties.

Amid the despair and mourning, amid the worry over an unrelenting series of strong aftershocks, there was one bright moment on Sunday morning as Japanese naval forces rescued a 60-year-old man who had been riding the roof of his house for the past two days.

Hiromitsu Arakawa?s tiny home in the town of Minami-soma was torn from its foundations by the first wave of the tsunami that crashed ashore Friday afternoon, the defense ministry said. Mr. Arakawa saw his wife slip away in the deluge, and he clung to the roof as the house drifted away. He was discovered late Sunday morning, still on his roof, 9 miles south of his hometown and 9 miles out to sea.

The quake was the strongest ever recorded to hit Japan, which sits astride the notorious “ring of fire” that marks the most violent seismic activity in the Pacific Basin. On Sunday, the Japanese Meteorological Agency

“upgraded” the quake?s magnitude from 8.8 to 9.0, an effective doubling of its recorded power.Nuclear officials in Fukushima shut down three reactors after the tsunami on Friday but an explosion tore through the No. 1 reactor building on Saturday.

When the cooling system on the No. 3 reactor also began to fail Sunday, workers pumped seawater and boron into it. Yukio Edano, the government?s chief cabinet secretary, warned Sunday of the possibility of an explosion at No. 3 — and the chance of meltdowns at both reactors.

Some 80,000 people were ordered to evacuate danger zones around two atomic facilities in Fukushima. Japanese officials reported that 19 people showed signs of radiation exposure and as many as another 141 were feared to have been exposed, including some who had been outside the plant

waiting to be evacuated. . Three workers are suffering from full-on radiation sickness.

Northern Japan relies heavily on nuclear power for its electricity, and the government said it was instituting a series of rolling blackouts across the

country starting Monday to make up for the diminished capacity from the reactor failures at Fukushima.

In a televised address the trade minister, Banri Kaieda, asked businesses to limit their use of power as they returned to operation on Monday. He asked specifically for nighttime cutbacks of lights and heating.

In Sendai, a city of roughly a million people in the region at the center of the catastrophe, many buildings cracked but none had collapsed. Still, city officials said that more than 500,000 households and businesses were without water, and many more lacked electricity as well.

Soldiers surrounded Sendai?s City Hall, where officials converted two floors to treat evacuees and drew power from a generator. Thousands of residents sought refuge inside waiting anxiously for word from their relatives. A line of people waited outside with plastic bottles and buckets in hand to collect water from a pump.

Masaki Kokubum, 35, has been living in City Hall since the quake. He

works at a supermarket, and his neighborhood lost power and water. He said he had not slept in three days, and as he spoke he seemed dazed.

“I can?t sleep,” he said as he sat in a chair in a hallway. “I just sit here and wait.” Aerial photos on Sunday showed floodwaters receding from the runways at the airport in Sendai, which is the capital of Miyagi prefecture. “The rescue is going on through the night, of course,” Michael Tonge, a teacher from Britain, said early Sunday morning from his home in the city. No buildings had collapsed in his neighborhood, Mr. Tonge said, and people were not panicking — typical of a nation accustomed to order and schooled to stay calm and constructive.

“The few shops open have people queuing nicely,” he said, “with no

pushing or fighting or anything.” Tokyo and central Japan continued to be struck by aftershocks from quakes off the eastern coast of Honshu Island, and United States agencies recorded 90 smaller quakes throughout the day Saturday. A long tremor registering 6.2 caused buildings in central Tokyo to sway dramatically on Sunday morning.

Search teams from more than a dozen nations were bound for Japan,

including a unit from New Zealand, which suffered a devastating quake last

month in Christchurch. A Japanese team that had been working in New Zealand also was called home.

A combined search squad from Los Angeles County and Fairfax County, Va., arrived from the United States with 150 personnel and a dozen sniffer dogs.

Assistance teams also were due from China and South Korea, two of Japan?s traditional and most bitter rivals. Tokyo?s acceptance of these offers of help —along with a parade of senior officials offering updates at televised news conferences on Sunday —was in marked contrast to government policies after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, which killed more than 6,000 people. The government refused most offers of aid at the time, put restrictions on foreign aid operations and offered little information about the disaster. Martin Fackler reported from Sendai, Japan, and Mark McDonald from Tokyo. Moshe Komata and Hiroko Tabuchi contributed reporting from Tokyo.

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Tuesday that an explosion was heard at the No. 2 reactor of Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant at 6:10 a.m. The suppression pool of the reactor might have been damaged at No. 2 reactor, said the safety agency.

日本经济产业省原子能安全和保安院15日说，东京电力公司福岛第一核电站二号机组当天上午发出爆炸音，可能是核反应堆中的控制压力池出现损坏。

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Monday that hydrogen blast occurred at the No. 3 nuclear reactor of Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant at 02:01 GMT (11:01 local time). 日本经济产业省原子能安全和保安院14日宣布，福岛第一核电站3号机组当地时间11时01分（北京时间10时01分）发生氢气爆炸，反应堆所在建筑遭到损坏，但是放置反应堆的容器损坏的可能性很小。保安院呼吁周围居民尽量待在室内。

The Japanese Meteorological Agency has re-evaluated the March 11 earthquake and increased the magnitude from 8.8 to 9.0.

日本气象局已经将3月11日地震的级数从8.8修正为9.0。

The official death toll in the Japanese earthquake disaster now stands at 413, with 784 people missing and 1,128 injured. In addition, police said between 200 and 300 bodies were found along the coast in Sendai, the biggest city in the area near the quake's epicenter.Local media reports said at least 1,300 people may have been killed.

目前日本地震死亡人数已经上升到413人，失踪人数为784，1128人受伤。警方称仙台海岸发现200-300具遗体。当地媒体报道说至少可能有1300人遇害。

An explosion has been heard and smoke was seen at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant. Several workers have reportedly been injured in the blast at the nuclear plant.

法新社报道，福岛县东京电力第一核电站1号机组内传出爆炸声并冒出白烟。有工作人员受伤。

Japanese news agencies are saying the death toll has exceeded 1,000.

日本新闻社称死亡人数很有可能已经超过1000.

A bullet train carrying hundreds of passengers through the Miyagi region has been reported missing.A second train has been declared missing, AFP reports. 法新社报道，宫城有两列火车已证实失踪。

It's not just the Pacific Rim south of Japan that's affected - Canada has just issued a tsunami warning for the coast of British Columbia.

除了日本太平洋沿岸地区会遭受海啸袭击，加拿大英属哥伦比亚省也刚刚发布海啸预警。 Tsunami alerts lifted for Australia, NZ, Guam, Taiwan, Indonesia & Phillippines. 澳大利亚、新西兰、关岛、台湾、印尼和菲律宾解除海啸预警。

NHK says the the death toll has risen above 300 with \NHK电视台宣布死亡人数已经超过300，同时有几百人失踪。

Another two aftershocks measuring 5.1 magnitude have just shaken Japan's east coast, the US Geological Survey reports.

美国地理调查局报道，日本东海岸刚刚遭受两场5.1级的余震。

American airlines United, Delta and American Airlines are waiving fees for passengers to rebook flights to Japan for at least a week, Bloomberg reports.

彭博社报道：美国联合航空公司、达美航空公司和美国航空公司宣布至少在一周内，改订的飞往日本的机票全部免费。

BBC消息：美国地质勘测报告称，另外5次强烈有力的余震（目前测量约5.5级）刚刚快速连续撞击日本东海岸。

Almost all of the about 1,200 households in in part of Japan's quake and tsunami hit Pacific coast town of Sendai, have been left homeless, police said. The armed forces say 60,000-70,000 people in Sendai were evacuated to shelters.

据日本警方称，仙台市有约1200户居民在地震和海啸后无家可归；另有6万到7万仙台人被撤离。

Bloomberg says more than 5800 residents have now been evacuated from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

彭博社报道：福岛第一原子力发电所周边超过5800名居民已经被疏散。

Here is a dramatic dispatch from a Telegraph correspondent in Tokyo. Martin Foster says in more than 30 years in Japan, today's quake was the \英国每日邮报驻东京记者Martin Foster发来报道称，在日本呆了30年，这次的地震确实是他亲身经历过的地震中最可怕的一次。

Japan coast guard searching for another ship with 80 on board washed away by tsunami, AP snaps.

AP报道，日本海岸警卫队正在搜寻一只被海啸卷走的船，船上有80人。

A Six foot surge has been reported in Kahului Harbor, Hawaii, says Gerard Fryer from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC).He told reporters：“This is not going to be a major damaging event.”

夏威夷卡胡鲁伊港口由海啸引发的巨浪高达六英尺。太平洋海啸预警中心的Gerard Fryer说，夏威夷海啸不会造成太大危害。

At least 12 powerful aftershocks, seven of them of a magnitude of at least 6.3 have hit Japan. 截至目前已经发生了12场震级在6.3以上的余震。

Tokyo's Narita airport has partially resumed flights after closing following a huge 8.9 magnitude

earthquake that hit Japan on Friday and triggered a devastating tsunami.

东京成田机场已经恢复部分航班。

The IAEA has said it had received information from its International Seismic Safety Centre that a second earthquake of magnitude 6.5 had struck Japan near the coast of Honshu, near the country's Tokai plant. Reuters said it gave no further details.

国际原子能机构称，本州岛发生第二场6.5震级的地震，震区靠近东海核电厂，目前尚无更详细信息。

A major explosion hit a petrochemical complex in the northeast Japan city of Sendai hours after the biggest earthquake in Japanese history triggered a devastating tsunami, local media have reported.

仙台市的一家石化厂区发生大爆炸。

California residents could be soon evacuated amid tsunami fears, a state emergency agency spokesman told Reuters.

路透社报道，相关政府官员称加州居民可能会被紧急疏散，以防海啸来袭。

Local news agencies in Japan reports that between 200-300 bodies have been discovered on country's north -east, Sky reports.

日本当地新闻社报道说东南地区发现200-300具遗体。

Bloomberg reports that Indonesia has lifted a tsunami warning, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said.

彭博社报道称印尼已经取消海啸预警。

Tsunami waves slam Hawaii, sweeping through islands after massive earthquake in Japan, AP snaps.

AP报道，海啸已经袭击夏威夷。 Death toll now at 116, AFP reports.

法新社报道说死亡人数上升至116人。

The AP is now saying that Japan's nuclear safety agency has issued an evacuation order to more than 2,800 residents living near the nuclear plant.

AP报道，日本对福岛第一核电站2号机组周边半径两公里之内的居民发出避难劝告。 ? The AP now saying death toll is 32.

根据AP新闻报道目前死亡人数已上升到32人。

? Japan hit by vast 8.8 magnitude earthquake, 30ft tsunami 日本发生8.8级地震，引发30英尺高（约9米）海啸

? At least 26 dead, dozens injured 至少26人死亡，多人受伤

? 1000 times more powerful than Christchurch quake 是新西兰克赖斯特彻奇地震强度的1000倍

? Tokyo 'shut down', four million without power

东京已经处于停止状态，400万人断电

? Tsunami fears for all of the Pacific, Hawaii, US west coast

海啸威胁所有太平洋沿岸地区、夏威夷和美国西海岸

? Google launches 'people finder' 谷歌推出“人员搜寻”

? Economic fears for world power 世界强国可能产生经济危机

Japan was hit by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake today which rocked buildings in Tokyo and triggered a tsunami that dashed ships onto Japan's northeast coast, sweeping cars through the streets of coastal towns.

今天日本发生了8.8级的强烈地震，首都东京的房屋发生摇晃。地震还引发了海啸，将船只冲到了日本东北海岸，将沿岸城市街道上的汽车冲了个遍。

The Japanese ministry of defence has sent up 10 aircraft to obtain an aerial survey of the damage caused by the wave, which early warnings said could be up to 10m high.

日本国防部派出了10架飞机从空中观察海啸造成的损害，此前警报里说海啸可能达到10米高。

Along Japan's coast, television footage showed massive damage from the tsunami, with dozens of cars, boats and even buildings being carried along by waters. In Tokyo the car park of Disneyland was reported flooded.

日本海岸，电视镜头拍摄到了海啸带来的巨大破坏，很多汽车、轮船、甚至是楼房都被海啸冲走了。报道说东京迪斯尼乐园的停车场已经被淹。

A large ship swept away by the tsunami rammed directly into a breakwater in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture, according to footage on public broadcaster NHK. In Tokyo several fires were reported and the underground railway was evacuated.

据日本广播协会NHK报道，一艘被海啸冲走的大船直接撞向了宫城县气仙沼市的防波堤。东京发生了数起火灾，地铁站里的人被疏散。

A tsunami warning has also been issued for Taiwan, Russia, the Philippines and the Mariana Islands, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. National broadcaster NHK was warning those near the coast to get to safer ground.

太平洋海啸预警中心表示，海啸警报也被发往了台湾、俄罗斯、菲律宾和马里亚纳群岛。NHK提醒在海岸附近的人们呆到安全的地方去。

Several quakes had hit the same region in recent days, including a 7.3 magnitude one on Wednesday.

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Japan was hit by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake today which rocked buildings in Tokyo and triggered a tsunami that dashed ships onto Japan's northeast coast, sweeping cars through the streets of coastal towns.

今天日本发生了8.8级的强烈地震，首都东京的房屋发生摇晃。地震还引发了海啸，将船只冲到了日本东北海岸，将沿岸城市街道上的汽车冲了个遍。

The Japanese ministry of defence has sent up 10 aircraft to obtain an aerial survey of the damage caused by the wave, which early warnings said could be up to 10m high.

日本国防部派出了10架飞机从空中观察海啸造成的损害，此前警报里说海啸可能达到10米高。

Along Japan's coast, television footage showed massive damage from the tsunami, with dozens of cars, boats and even buildings being carried along by waters. In Tokyo the car park of Disneyland was reported flooded.

日本海岸，电视镜头拍摄到了海啸带来的巨大破坏，很多汽车、轮船、甚至是楼房都被海啸冲走了。报道说东京迪斯尼乐园的停车场已经被淹。

A large ship swept away by the tsunami rammed directly into a breakwater in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture, according to footage on public broadcaster NHK. In Tokyo several fires were reported and the underground railway was evacuated.

据日本广播协会NHK报道，一艘被海啸冲走的大船直接撞向了宫城县气仙沼市的防波堤。东京发生了数起火灾，地铁站里的人被疏散。

A tsunami warning has also been issued for Taiwan, Russia, the Philippines and the Mariana Islands, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. National broadcaster NHK was warning those near the coast to get to safer ground.

太平洋海啸预警中心表示，海啸警报也被发往了台湾、俄罗斯、菲律宾和马里亚纳群岛。NHK提醒在海岸附近的人们呆到安全的地方去。

Several quakes had hit the same region in recent days, including a 7.3 magnitude one on Wednesday.

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