JAPAN REBUILT ROAD IN 6 DAYS

selepas kejadian tsunami 11March lalu, satu lebuhraya di NAKA yang rosak teruk akibat bencana itu hanya mengambil masa 6 hari sahaja untuk di baik pulih. Pembinaan semula bermula pada 17 March dan siap pada 23 March iaitu 6 hari kemudian.

A lucky dolphin

TOKYO — A baby dolphin has been rescued in Japan after being dumped in a rice field by a giant tsunami that hit the coast on March 11.

The dolphin was spotted in the flooded field, about a mile from the coast, said Ryo Taira, a pet-shop owner who has been rescuing animals abandoned after the 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami left 23,000 people dead or missing.

"A man passing by said he had found the dolphin in the rice paddy and that we had to do something to save it," the 32-year-old Taira told Reuters.

Taira found the dolphin struggling in the shallow seawater on Tuesday and after failing to net it, waded in to the field, which had yet to be sown with rice, to cradle the four foot animal in his arms.

"It was pretty weak by then, which was probably the only reason we could catch it," he said

Taira and some friends wrapped the dolphin in wet towels and drove it back to the sea, where they set it free. The dolphin appeared to perk up when it was back in the Pacific, he said.

"I don't know if it will live, but it's certainly a lot better than dying in a rice paddy," Taira told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

Earthquake in Myanmar

Shocking news received this morning..
another earthquake occur after 13 days Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami..
this time, not far from Malaysia..
in Myanmar and Thailand...

BANGKOK — A severe earthquake of 6.8 magnitude struck a sparsely populated mountain area in the Golden Triangle region of northeastern Myanmar Thursday, but although the tremors were felt over a wide radius, initial reports of damage and injuries were light.

One person in northern Thailand was reported killed, a bridge was destroyed near the epicenter, homes were damaged in southern China and buildings shook as far away as Bangkok, Hanoi and Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.

Buildings were damaged near the epicenter in Myanmar’s Shan State and villagers continued to feel aftershocks for several hours, according to an official with World Vision in Myanmar. But reports of any damage and injuries were slow to emerge overnight from the remote mountains and valleys.

The area affected is landlocked, and no tsunami warning was issued.

One woman was killed in the Thai border city of Chiang Rai, about 70 miles south of the epicenter, when a wall fell on her as she was sleeping, Thai television reported. Some people there said they were shaken from their beds or ran into the streets. One woman attending a funeral said she clung to a pole to stay upright.

“I felt I was swaying like a child in a cradle,” the woman, Nutpisut Thongkika, a 50-year-old teacher, said in a telephone interview from Chiang Rai. “The situation here was very chaotic when the earthquake hit.”

Thai television said no serious damage was reported in Chiang Rai.

Many tourists in nearby Chiangmai fled their hotels and remained for hours in the streets.

The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake was just six miles deep, meaning that severe shaking could have caused major damage to buildings in a wide area. It also reported a smaller quake, of 4.8 magnitude, about a half-hour later.

Buildings shook for more than a minute in China’s nearby Yunnan Province and many residents fled their homes in Nanning City, the capital of Guangxi Autonomous Region, the Xinhua news agency reported. It said officials were investigating the extent of the damage.

Another earthquake on March 10 in Yunnan Province in southwest China took 26 lives and destroyed a number of schools, Xinhua reported.

The tremors Thursday caused panic in Hanoi, 380 miles to the east of the epicenter, where residents said they heard the shattering of windows, the Vietnam News Agency reported. Tall buildings shook and chandeliers swayed in Bangkok, 480 miles to the south.

Hours after the quake, people in villages near the epicenter remained in the streets afraid to return indoors, said Jenny McIntyre, communications manager in Yangon for World Vision, a children’s aid agency.

“These are subsistence farmers, simple people who have got simple water systems which will potentially be threatened,” she said, adding that the damaged bridge had cut off an area near the epicenter.

She said she also felt the tremors in Yangon, 350 miles to the southwest. “I suddenly felt really sick and strange and I realized that everything was rocking and the lightshades were all rocking,” she said.

Wongdeun Kongcharoen, 34, a hotel manager in Chiang Rai, said the earthquake cracked the walls of houses and scattered glassware and other belongings in all directions.

“People here are still nervous and staying outside,” she said about two hours after the tremors. “We feel like the situation that happened in Japan. It was so scary.”

She said a Japanese friend told her the shaking was light compared to earthquakes in that country. “But this was the first time for us to experience a situation like this,” Ms. Wongden said. “So that’s why we were still outside and still scared.”

Poypiti Amatatham contributed reporting from Bangkok.

radiasi Jepun

Radiasi semakin tersebar jauh.

Radioaktif dikesan kota sebelah Tokyo, tiga lagi bandar AS dan Iceland

TOKYO: Ancaman bahan radioaktif berpunca daripada pelepasan radiasi di loji nuklear Fukushima semakin naik selepas tahapnya meningkat di Saitama, bandar bersebelahan Tokyo selain dikesan di beberapa negeri Amerika Syarikat dan juga Eropah.

Di Saitama, tahap radiasi dikesan lebih tinggi dalam sistem pembersihan air di daerah Kawaguchi, dan tidak selamat untuk kanak-kanak.

Pihak berkuasa Kawaguchi mendapati tahap radiasi iodin radioaktif mencapai 120 becquerel, sedikit tinggi daripada paras selamat.

Kelmarin, iodin radioaktif di Tokyo mencapai 210 becquerel di sebuah loji pembersihan air menyebabkan pihak berkuasa menyarankan penduduk tidak memberi air paip untuk diminum kanak-kanak.

Selain itu, pencemaran radiasi juga dikesan di tiga lagi negeri Amerika iaitu Colorado, Oregon dan Hawaii tetapi pihak berkuasa menegaskan ia dalam kadar yang kecil dan membahayakan keselamatan awam.

Agensi Perlindungan Alam Sekitar (EPA) mendedahkan kehadiran radiasi itu tetapi menekankan kadarnya kecil dan terlalu rendah untuk memberi masalah.

Di Oregon, radiasi iodin-131 juga dikesan agensi berkenaan manakala di Hawaii ia dikesan sehari sebelumnya. Radiasi itu dipercayai dari Fukushima. Sebelum ini, Washington dan California melaporkan pencemaran berkenaan.
Di Vienna, radiasi juga dilaporkan sudah tiba di Iceland dan dijangka sampai ke Perancis dan negara Eropah lain tidak lama lagi.

Pihak Berkuasa Keselamatan Iceland mengesahkan bahan radioaktif iodin-131 dikesan tetapi masih pada paras terlalu rendah.

Loji nuklear Fukushima rosak dan melepaskan radiasi sejak dilanda gempa 9 skala Richter dan tsunami yang melanda selepas itu pada 11 Mac lalu.

Usaha menyejukkan loji nukklear itu belum berjaya selepas diganggu letupan, kebakaran dan kebimbangan mengenai radiasi.

Terbaru, tiga pekerja di loji itu terdedah kepada radiasi 180 millisievert dan dibawa ke hospital, kata Fumio Matsuda, jurucakap Agensi Keselamatan Industri dan Nuklear (NISA).

Lebih 20 orang cedera dalam operasi untuk menyejukkan reaktor nuklear Fukushima.
Laporan menyatakan, radiasi sudah menyerap masuk produk tenusu termasuk susu mentah, air laut dan 11 jenis sayur termasuk brokoli yang ditanam dekat lokasi berkenaan.

Lebih 70,000 penduduk sudah dipindahkan dari kawasan 20 kilometer ke loji itu dan 130,000 berada di kawasan 10 kilometer lagi serta dinasihatkan tidak keluar rumah. – Agensi

dipetik dari Berita Harian Online.

tsumanis alert...

when i heard the news that tsunamis strike Japan 11 March ago, i suddenly thought about my family....
of course they are not living in Japan...
my family is in Kuala Besut Terengganu...
living near in the coastal area make me more worried when thing like tsumanis occur.
our house is only about five kilometers from the beach...
i did not dare to imagine what if that disaster occur at our places...
nauzubillah...

i call my umi that day..
told her don't go to the beach..
i'm more worried because during that time was school holiday..
and my little brother really like to go to beach.

umi said: " don't worry about us..just take a good care of yourself there too..we are more worry about you."

Fukushima vs Chernobyll

Assalamualaikum.....
Hi....

I guess everyone is aware about what is happening in JAPAN last 11March rite??
What a disaster. I am very sorry for all Japanese. But i am very confident that they will arise again from all this disaster, and everything will return to normal in a nick of time. Maybe they will be more advance compare before the disaster. why?? because they are Japanese, which can be consider as a hardworking, full of discipline people in this world. they will back in track in no time.



As an environmental engineering student, what is happening in Japan would be a very interesting topic for us. why?? it's simply because what is happening there is related to our field. for example, the earthquake and the tsunamis. it's a common phenomena that we should know about. The earthquake that occur in magnitude of 9 which is also the fifth largest earthquake in the world attract me more. Also the tsunamis.

What makes me more interested in updating the japan earthquake is the melt down of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima. Before this, i used to write about Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion as a case study in one of my assignment. if i wasn't mistake it for Environmental Health, Law and Safety. The disaster that occur in Chernobyl is almost similar to what happen in Fukushima recently. But the Chernobyll disaster not cause by the earthquake, but due to the failure occur during the testing process and it happen back in 1986.



When writting about this Chernobyll disaster, i'm 100% depend on the already available facts. And i can easily get all the information on what has happen back 25 years ago. but for this Fukushima, i need to upadating myself through news and etc in order for me to know the latest news there. So, the feeling is different. It is more interesting. I sometimes make my own prediction [ based on what use to happen in Chernobyl] what is going to happen next, and see if my prediction is correct or not. And i am eager to see how this major problem will be overcome because the technologies 25 years ago is totally different from today's generation especially in JAPAN as one of the leading modern country in the world.