Japan Watch: Massive Devastation
What is happening in Japan these days reduces San Francisco’s 1989 earthquake to merely a passing problem. Even the 1906 earthquake and the fire following are small compared to what we are seeing. The Japanese Prime Minister characterized “this is the worst disaster since WW II.” Hundreds of thousands are reported as missing.
BBC has an amazing few minute shot of one of the tsunamis breaking over farmlands, carrying buildings along with it. Here.
All these photos are from Australia’s Daily Telegraph and there are plenty more.
It’s clear than one nuclear plant has already been lost to sea-water flooding it in order to prevent a core meltdown after electrical and pumping failures. Another is in serious trouble. So far, nuclear experts have said there is some possibility of a Three-Mile-Island type of radiation leakage, but not of a Chernobyl like explosion and massive radiation plume.
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