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9.0 Earthquake strikes Japan


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The DART buoy west of the Big Island:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=51407

You'll see a red vertical line when the wave arrives. Keep in mind this is deep water, and doesn't represent the height at land; the highest DART reading from this earthquake (DART off northern Japan) was 3.5 feet.

3.5 ft is pretty significant for a DART buoy right?
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MYFOXNY.COM - Some 2,000 residents living near Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant were urged to evacuate Friday. Engineers said they were unable to pump water to cool the nuclear reactor at a northeastern power plant crippled by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake.

Officials in Fukushima issued the advice for residents living within a two-kilometer (1.2-mile) radius of the No. 2 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Japan declared a nuclear emergency Friday after engineers said they were unable to pump water to cool the nuclear reactor at a northeast power plant crippled by fire caused by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said there was no radiation leak after the cooling system at the plant in Fukushima failed.

He added that the plant had automatically shut down following the quake and there was no immediate danger.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/japan-nuclear-plant-emergeny-20110311-ncx

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