Japan earthquake http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2 Live blogging Japan earthquake on ScribbleLive Copyright 2013 ScribbleLive http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 5 <![CDATA[Live updates of developments after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, selected by Reuters.com editors and readers. To...]]> www.reuters.com and our Japan Twitter feed here www.twitter.com .]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10066106 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10066106 Reuters.com Japan earthquake Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:46:42 GMT <![CDATA[Reiterating that the live blog is going on hiatus. Will be back when editors give the go-ahead. Thanks all.]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076882 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076882 Reuters_david.lalmalsawma Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:59:09 GMT <![CDATA[Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) bows to the Japanese flag with a black mourning cloth during a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo March 25, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai ]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076870 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076870 Reuters_david.lalmalsawma Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:57:18 GMT <![CDATA[Bereaved family members of the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami walk through a temporary mass grave site in Higashi-Matsushima in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan March 26, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076758 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076758 Reuters_david.lalmalsawma Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:40:28 GMT <![CDATA[Experts unsure on source of radiation leak www.yomiuri.co.jp]]> www.yomiuri.co.jp]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076550 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076550 Ralph Unger Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:38:26 GMT <![CDATA[Fresh water injected into No. 2 reactor : www3.nhk.or.jp]]> www3.nhk.or.jp]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076719 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076719 yann Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:38:04 GMT <![CDATA[High level of iodine 131 in seawater near N-plant www3.nhk.or.jp]]> www3.nhk.or.jp]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076673 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076673 yann Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:37:51 GMT <![CDATA[@ George Chen What do you think of this one? =) www.lngworldnews.com]]> www.lngworldnews.com]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076601 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076601 Grace Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:27:20 GMT <![CDATA[Post-earthquake concept stocks reut.rs]]> reut.rs]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076456 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076456 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:09:44 GMT <![CDATA[On the 9pm news last night on NHK, they covered an aspect that I hadn't seen much talk about. While we know the people...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076411 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076411 Ravlen Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:07:48 GMT <![CDATA[A member of Japan Self Defense Force walks in front of a destroyed building at the port of Kesennuma, two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, March 25, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076417 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076417 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:06:08 GMT <![CDATA[Its not a window, several panels were removed on purpose to vent the reactor building and prevent a hydrogen explosion.]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076400 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076400 WolfDK Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:05:44 GMT <![CDATA[A man pauses from cleaning a building in Kesennuma, two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, March 25, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076386 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076386 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:03:39 GMT <![CDATA[@SteveMT The building you see is non-structural, intended mostly as an environmental enclosure to keep the rain off the...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076298 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076298 Jim Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:59:21 GMT <![CDATA[Thank you Reuters and everyone participating here. I have been coming here several times a day from the beginning. It...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076293 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076293 ariadne Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:59:16 GMT <![CDATA[Japan disaster in figures reut.rs]]> reut.rs]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076270 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076270 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:58:06 GMT <![CDATA["It also causes DNA damage and raises the risk of cancer, particularly in young children and fetuses." @aricle on impact...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076200 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076200 inquisitive Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:55:12 GMT <![CDATA[Radioactive substances and their impact on health reut.rs]]> reut.rs]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076157 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076157 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:51:49 GMT <![CDATA[Japan rebuilding to drive materials demand reut.rs]]> reut.rs]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076137 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076137 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:50:22 GMT <![CDATA[Geithner says Japan won't harm U.S. recovery reut.rs]]> reut.rs]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076120 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076120 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:49:14 GMT <![CDATA[Tokyo nuclear firm protected, but not shareholders (By John Foley, a Reuters Breakingviews columnist) reut.rs]]> reut.rs]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076106 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076106 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:48:15 GMT <![CDATA[Order amid Chaos www.nytimes.com]]> www.nytimes.com]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076074 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076074 Pat Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:46:02 GMT <![CDATA[Bloomberg: "The cores of three reactors are still badly damaged and it’s not clear that cooling can be restored, Edwin...]]> Bloomberg: "The cores of three reactors are still badly damaged and it’s not clear that cooling can be restored, Edwin Lyman, a researcher at the Washington, D.C.-based Union of Concerned Scientists said." noir.bloomberg.com]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076053 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076053 SteveA Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:45:24 GMT <![CDATA[Pedestrians walk past a billboard with an internet address asking for help for Japan near a shopping centre in Moscow March 25, 2011. The site offers printable instructions on how to donate money for relief to Japan following the earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin ]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076055 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076055 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:44:58 GMT <![CDATA[Japanese players wearing arm bands to mourn for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, huddle during their match against the U.S. in the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament March 25, 2011 . REUTERS/Bobby Yip]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076040 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076040 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:43:55 GMT <![CDATA[The description under the picture of Reactor #2 (below) sounds strange. Question for anyone out there: Do nuclear...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075990 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075990 SteveMT Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:43:32 GMT <![CDATA[@Ralph Unger Don't forget that the water in the turbine hall basement is 10.000 times more radioactive than water in a...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076018 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10076018 Salvador Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:42:52 GMT <![CDATA[Photographer Toru Hanai works in Rikuzentakata, northern Japan after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck the area, March 14, 2011. REUTERS/Lee Jae-won]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075974 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075974 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:40:09 GMT <![CDATA[The water in the basement is more radioactive then the water in the reactor would be. I would say that the storage pools...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075943 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075943 Ralph Unger Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:39:56 GMT <![CDATA[@Reuters_UrvashiSibal wat a brave photographer. Many thanks!!]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075935 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075935 Meretisa Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:38:44 GMT <![CDATA[I believe after this is all over, and before the review of the incident, they should have a review of the watchdog in...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075910 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075910 CBF Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:37:49 GMT <![CDATA[Waves of disaster 相次ぐ災害 reut.rs]]> reut.rs]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075872 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075872 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:33:27 GMT <![CDATA[Photographer Yuriko Nakao sits in the back of a taxi wearing protective clothing while covering the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima March 16, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075848 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075848 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:31:46 GMT <![CDATA[What I tried to say a couple of days ago but much better worded: “At Fukushima, our concern is not just the immediate...]]> the long term, from radioactive particles that are inhaled or ingested,” said Folkers. “These
particles can fall on soil and in water and end up in the food supply for many years. We are
worried that officials are measuring only the radiation that is the easiest to detect – gamma rays.
Testing people for radiation on their skin or clothing is necessary, but it tells us little or nothing
about what they could have breathed in or eaten—which results in internal exposure and long-
term risk.”
www.beyondnuclear.org]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075807 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075807 Cup Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:30:44 GMT <![CDATA[Novak Djokovic of Serbia sports a t-shirt in support of disaster relief efforts for Japan after a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country, while warming up for his match against Denis Istomin of Russia at the Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Florida March 25, 2011. REUTERS/Hans Deryk ]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075775 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075775 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:27:26 GMT <![CDATA[Novak Djokovic of Serbia sports the words "Support Japan" on the tape around his knee, in show of solidarity towards the country after a massive earthquake and tsunami, as he waits for a serve from Denis Istomin of Russia at the Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Florida March 25, 2011. REUTERS/Hans Deryk ]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075761 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075761 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:26:31 GMT <![CDATA[@JIm yes, now it is. Earlier, though it looked like light rain, fog, or snow...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075676 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075676 dealing Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:20:52 GMT <![CDATA[Japan Self Defense Force members search for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Miyako City, Miyagi Prefecture, March 26, 2011. REUTERS/Yomiuri Shimbun ]]> ]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075687 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075687 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:20:46 GMT <![CDATA[Injured Japan atom workers to be released soon - IAEA reut.rs]]> reut.rs]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075668 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075668 Reuters_UrvashiSibal Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:19:29 GMT <![CDATA[@Christine Yikes! We know how effective that was from a distance last time.]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075645 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075645 dealing Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:18:48 GMT <![CDATA[@dealing Rain definitely clears junk out of the air be it dust, pollen, or radioactive particles (not sure about snow). ...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075629 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075629 Jim Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:18:01 GMT <![CDATA[Thanks for the story about the worker in the reactor and his friend and what they experienced. That's what makes it all...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075634 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075634 Grace Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:17:54 GMT <![CDATA[If contaminated rain water seeps down through the soil and into underground water supplies, will this water become...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075641 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075641 Aki_Yokohama Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:17:50 GMT <![CDATA[So if it's snowing and/or raining in the affected area, it would explain why the atmospheric counts are a bit lower. The...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075584 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075584 dealing Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:14:29 GMT <![CDATA[re-"Britain looks a safe haven for nuclear power (By Chris Hughes, a Reuters Breakingviews columnist) reut.rs " The SNP...]]> http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075579 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2#LiveBlog_Post10075579 ElaineK Japan earthquake Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:14:18 GMT