At 14:46 local time (6:46 in Italy), a first violent earthquake struck Japan, in ' North Pacific Ocean, one of the most seismic of the North.
Although there are many years structures can withstand such disasters, there's news of many deaths, injuries and massive damage to housing and industrial.
"Here in Tokyo, the quake was frightening both in intensity and duration ',' said Mauro Politi, an assistant professor of Mitaka, at the outskirts of Tokyo. Although the Japanese are accustomed to earthquakes, he said,'' the feeling was different from the usual'': ''now seemed to be on a ship at sea.''
A start fire was reported at a building housing a turbine at the power station of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, while the antenna on top of Tokyo Tower, the symbol of Japan's capital and the post-war reconstruction, has folded after the shock.
The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that has just devastated Japan is among the ten most violent events in the last 100-150 years, ie since there are tools to calculate the energy released by earthquakes.
said the president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Enzo Boschi. Among the strongest earthquakes on record that Japan ranks seventh. To dominate the terrible earthquake of magnitude 9.5 that struck Chile in 1960, followed by a magnitude 9.2, which four years later shook Alaska. These two earthquakes, like the other most violent ever recorded and just like the one that hit Japan, occurred along the seismic zone of the planet's most restless, the Pacific Ring of Fire. The third earthquake was more violent than ever to have been a magnitude 9.1 that struck Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, creating a devastating tsunami. Followed by three earthquakes of magnitude 9.0 occurred in 1952 in the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka, in 1868 and in Chile in 1700 in Canada and the United States. Following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan today.
As occurred off the coast of Japan, il sisma ha procurato subito l'allarme Tsunami, che puntuale si è abbattuto poco dopo.
Onde di 10 metri hanno colpito l'isola giapponese di Honshu e altre di almeno sette metri e mezzo la prefettura di Fukushima. Si teme che le onde dello Tsunami possano arrivare a colpire nelle ore successive tutte le aree costiere del Pacidico, come le Hawaii, le Marianne, nel nord delle Filippine e nelle isole russe delle Curili meridionali. In Indonesia.
Questo sisma, a detta del dot. Francesco Mele unzionario di sala sismica dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Ingv) è stato ''alcune migliaia di volte'' piu' violento di quello dell'Aquila April 6, 2009. The magnitude'', he explained, is calculated on a logarithmic scale, so the increase of one degree corresponds to an increase of a factor of 30.'' As a result an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 and '900 times more' than a violent earthquake of magnitude 6.2, as the one that struck the Eagle three years ago.
Map affected area, auto-refreshing
In the frame above the fury of the tidal waves that reach the coast, sweeping away everything , houses, cars, trees, people.
A tsunami of 10 meters has reached the city of Sendai, while in the prefecture of Aomori, the northern island of Honshu always, they would have been even higher waves. The report Fuji Television.
The tsunami alert was declared in the Pacific except for the continental United States and Canada. The countries in which an alert is in effect are especially Russia, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. For the moment there's no evidence of serious tsunami also outside of Japan. From
RAI NEWS sources we learn that an earthquake measuring 4.5 Richter struck just now even Hawaii. Are not currently registered to persons or property damage.
RAINEWS A second source is about a ship with 700 people on board this morning overwhelmed by the tsunami.
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