Péril nucléaire. Japan earthquake - the worst-affected areas. Japan tsunami and nuclear alert - live coverage. Good morning.
It's now more than three days since the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, but there is little sign of relief for survivors. • There has been a second blast at the Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant. Television footage suggests the outer building of the third reactor has been blown away – as in the first blast – but officials believe the reactor container remains intact and says there is little prospect of a significant release of radioactive material. Officials warned yesterday that there might be another hydrogen explosion. • The Daily Yomiuri newspaper says police are reporting about 1,000 bodies have been found in Minamisanriku, Miyagi and another 1,000 on the Ojika Peninsula coast in the prefecture. • A very alarming tsunami warning this morning now appears to be a false alarm.
The Guardian's Dan Chung and Jonathan Watts are reporting from the disaster zone. Japanese television earlier reported that the sea level had dropped five metres off the coast of Fukushima. Dr. U.S. delivers coolant to Japan nuclear plant: Clinton. Emergency Declared at Japanese Nuclear Plant. Arrêt centrales nucléaires. Dégâts massifs. Une raffinerie en feu - Vidéo du journal televise : Le journal de 13h. Raw Video- Refinery burns after Japan quake. Les transports impactés. Yuri Hamada sat in the foyer of an office building across from Tokyo station, staring at televised pictures of the damage from Japan’s worst earthquake in a century.
After being shaken so hard she had to cling to a wall to keep from falling during the quake, she now had to figure out how to get home. “I’m totally stranded,” said Hamada, whose house in the mountains west of Tokyo is 45 minutes away by rail. “I guess I’ll have to spend the night here if the trains don’t start running. I can’t walk home.” Tokyo’s subway system, the world’s busiest with about 8 million riders a day, shut down, leaving commuters to wait hours for taxis or search for somewhere to spend the night. Les transports fonctionnent au ralenti. Lundi 14 mars, le Japon tentait de retrouver un semblant de vie normale alors que nombre d'habitants reprenaient le chemin du travail, trois jours après le séisme qui a dévasté le nord-est du pays.
La situation restait toutefois très délicate, tant les transports s'avéraient perturbés. Les trains Le trafic ferroviaire, totalement paralysé dans le nord-est, restait aussi très perturbé dans la mégapole de Tokyo, cœur économique du pays, forte de 35 millions d'habitants et de milliers de sièges sociaux, usines et commerces. La compagnie East Japan Railways, qui exploite de nombreuses lignes empruntées par les banlieusards, n'a été en mesure d'assurer que 20 % du trafic de ses trains rapides Shinkansen. Pour ne pas aggraver la situation dans les gares bondées, le gouvernement a conseillé à la population de limiter au minimum ses déplacements, tandis que de nombreuses entreprises demandaient à leurs employés de ne pas se rendre à leur travail.
Japan earthquake and tsunami: Hawaii on high alert and all UK-Tokyo flights cancelled. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 12:19 GMT, 11 March 2011 All flights to Tokyo from the UK have been cancelled this morning after one of the world's worst earthquakes in recent years struck off the coast of Japan earlier today.
Measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale, the earthquake sent ten-metre waves surging inland and sparked fires in Tokyo. Japan's meteorological agency said the tsunami struck Sendai, which has a population of about one million. Les vols pourraient reprendre vers le Japon dès ce soir - AERIEN. East Japan Railway Co (9020:JP) Stock Quote & Analysis. Dommages industriels. Sony, Toyota Among Japanese Companies Closing Factories After Earthquake.
Companies including Sony Corp. (6758) and Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) halted output at plants after an 8.9- magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, damaging production facilities and causing power outages.
Sony halted and evacuated six factories in northeastern Japan, said Yasuhiro Okada, a spokesman at the Tokyo-based company. He said the company was assessing the impact of power outages and damage to its facilities in the region, which make Blu-ray discs, magnetic heads and batteries. The quake, Japan’s strongest in at least a century, struck at 2:46 p.m. local time 130 kilometers (81 miles) off the coast of Sendai, north of Tokyo, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japanese companies assess post-quake damage; two deaths reported in Honda premises. Honda Motors is the only known company so far to have faced two casualties at its premises - two men were killed by a collapsing wall at a Honda factory in Tochigi prefecture according to reports from the local police, though it has not been ascertained if they were employees of the carmaker.
Electronics giant Sony Corp. and carmaker Toyota have reportedly shut down production at several of their plants; Sony, which has halted production and evacuated six of its factories told Bloomberg that the company is trying to determine the impact of power outages and damage to its facilities in the region; Toyota, too, has shuttered three of its factories. Auto component firms Toyota Boshoku Corp., and Denso Corp. have reported damage to their plants in Miyagi prefecture, where the roads have been badly damaged by the quake. As quake jolts Japan's auto plants, how will U.S. be affected? - Drive On: A conversation about the cars and trucks we drive. NIKKEI 225 (NKY:IND) Index Performance. Asian Shares, Currencies Drop on Middle East, Japan Earthquake.