TOKYO (AFP) – A powerful earthquake struck near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Tuesday, shaking buildings in Tokyo. No tsunami warning was issued and no damage immediately reported.
The US Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 6.0 and hit less than 11 kilometres (7 miles) below ground, 70 kilometres south of Fukushima city in the prefecture of the same name.
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The Japanese government is considering extending the evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant because of high radiation levels.
A 20-kilometre exclusion zone has been in place around the plant since a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Japan one month ago today.
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Another large earthquake has struck Japan one month to the day after a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami left 28,000 people dead or missing.
A tsunami warning and advisories were issued for parts of Japan’s north-eastern coast after the 7.1 aftershock, but those have since been lifted.
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A mysterious flashing light was captured on video over Japan as yet another earthquake hit the beleaguered country on Thursday, but what was it?
The footage clearly shows a ball of light pulsing for around eight seconds on the horizon in Tokyo during the aftershock.
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MINAMI SOMA, Japan – The farmhouse sits at the end of a mud-caked, one-lane road strewn with toppled trees, the decaying carcasses of dead pigs and large debris deposited by the March 11 tsunami.
Stranded alone inside the unheated, dark home is 75-year-old Kunio Shiga. He cannot walk very far and doesn’t know what happened to his wife.
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ATLANTA – A massive Russian cargo plane roared into Atlanta on Friday to pick up one of the world’s largest concrete pumps, which has been retrofitted to pour water on a Japanese nuclear power plant stricken by an earthquake and tsunami.
The 190,000-pound pump designed by Wisconsin-based Putzmeister America Inc. comes mounted on a 26-wheel truck. Its extendable boom can reach more than 200 feet, and can be operated two miles away by remote control, making it possible to shoot water into hard-to-reach places at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
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Video Report: Strong aftershock in northeast Japan causes a water leak from a recycled fuel pool at Onagawa nuclear plant.
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Video Report: The newsroom of Miyagi TV, an affiliate of Nippon TV in Sendai, was shaken violently by the quake, causing shelves to collapse and a power outage as staff held on to tables and equipment.
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Varying Levels of radiation from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant have been detected in vegetables planted on the Chinese mainland, the Ministry of Health has said.
Sample inspections have found varying levels of radioactive iodine in vegiatables planted in Beijing, Tianjin and Henan province-about 1-3 becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg), the ministry said in a statement.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 has jolted Japan’s Miyagi prefecture, which was devastated by last month’s deadly quake and tsunami.
The earthquake prompted Japanese authorities to warn that waves of up to 2 metres could hit the shoreline, but the tsunami warning was later cancelled.
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The seabed near the epicentre of the massive earthquake that rocked Japan last month was shifted 24 metres by the tremor, the country’s coastguard said.
Sensors found that one part of the ocean floor had been stretched to a point 24 metres east-southeast of its position before the 9.0-magnitude undersea quake, which triggered a massive tsunami that engulfed large areas of Japan’s north-east coast.
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Ghost City Symbolises Cost of Nuclear Disaster.
“Careful — do not touch anything with your bare hands!” warned the guide as we entered the kindergarten and our Geiger counter hissed like an angry rattlesnake.
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TOKYO (AFP) – Japan’s earthquake-tsunami and the ongoing nuclear crisis have slashed the number of foreigners travelling to its two main airports by two-thirds, immigration officials said Wednesday.
The drop, from a daily average of 15,500 people last March to just over 5,000 in the wake of the triple disaster, looks to have derailed plans to attract a record number of foreign tourists.
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Japanese officials have started measuring radiation levels in some school playgrounds amid fears the Fukushima nuclear plant might be leaking into the area.
Radiation levels are being checked in the playgrounds of 1,400 schools in Fukushima Prefecture.
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Traces of radioactive caesium have been found for the first time in fish off Japan’s east coast.
It is believed the contamination came from overheated fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
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TOKYO – Fishermen who lost their homes and boats in Japan’s tsunami now fear radioactive water gushing into the Pacific Ocean from a crippled nuclear plant could cost them their livelihoods.
The contaminated water raised concerns about the safety of seafood in the country that gave the world sushi, prompting the government to set limits for the first time on the amount of radiation permitted in fish.
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