Un séisme de magnitude 8,9 frappe le Japon. Plus de 10.000 morts dans la région de Miyagi selon la police. L'ESSENTIEL - Deux jours après le séisme le plus fort jamais enregistré au Japon, les inquiétudes sont très vives sur la situation dans les deux centrales nucléaires de Fukushima, à 250 km au nord de Tokyo. • Une explosion a frappé Fukushima n°1 samedi. Un deuxième réacteur donne des signes de problèmes, avec un risque d'explosion.En savoir plus ici. L'état d'urgence a été déclaré à la centrale d'Onagawa, où une radioactivité anormale a été détectée. -> A lire:les réseaux anti-nucléaires s'alarment. • Le Premier ministre japonais a reconnu que la situation reste «grave» à Fukushima. Le Japon vit sa plus grave crise depuis la Seconde guerre mondiale, a-t-il ajouté. • Le bilan provisoire du séisme s'élève à 1800 morts et disparus.
. • Une réplique du séisme, de magnitude 7, peut intervenir jusqu'à mercredi, prévient l'Agence météorologique japonaise. •Vous êtes au Japon? •--> Suivez les dernières infos sur Twitter, voir ici la sélection de Libé. Streaming Video by Ustream.TV 21h30. " 21h00. 18h55. London's #TT : a tribute for the power, influence & No PayPal fees for charities raising funds for Japan Tsunami relief | Let's Talk PayPal. Japan Posts Hit Facebook At Rate Of Dozens Per Second. Posts about Japan‘s earthquake and subsequent tsunami are going up on Facebook at a rate of dozens of postings per second. Status updates provide news on whether relatives or mutual friends in Japan are safe and offer prayers to the nation as a whole.
Wall posts link to news of the weather tragedy, including video footage and articles. Both types of content also included some worries about whether and how far the tsunami would spread to other countries in the region, like India. And a whole set of posts appear to be coming from parts of Japan, serving as a communications alternative for people whose cell phones don’t work. Just looking at my own news feed, I saw that those with family and friends in Japan appeared to be monitoring news coverage and regularly posting reactions to it — and these updates are serving as some people’s primary source of information about the escalating tragedy in that part of the world.
How have you been following the news about Japan? Twitter Reacts To Massive Quake, Tsunami In Japan. A powerful 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck the coast of Japan on Friday, causing widespread power outages, fires and a severe tsunami that was reported to be up to 10 meters high in places. It was the seventh most powerful earthquake in recorded history.
The reaction on Twitter, quickly becoming the go-to service in emergencies, was immediate and intense. Less than an hour after the quake, with the country's phone system knocked out, the number of tweets coming from Tokyo were topping 1,200 per minute, according to Tweet-o-Meter. In the U.S., West Coast Twitter users learned of the quake late Thursday night and were quickly sharing reports, prayers and video streams. Many favored the live Al-Jazeera feed; others offered a live feed from a Japanese station on Ustream. _liewa3GIwJ1qav5oho1_500.gif (GIF Image, 500x683 pixels) - Scaled (94%) Japon-séisme: les premières vagues du tsunami. Tsunami Giappone: le auto spazzate via. Séisme au Japon : premières images. Japan Earthquake - Ground shifts, water seeps during quake in Chiba, Japan.