Google issued a Public Alert on the Earthquake measuring 7.3 Richter 1 hour, 19 minutes agoLocation: 176 miles (284 km) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan; 184 miles (296 km) ENE of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan; 198 miles (319 km) E of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan; 285 miles (459 km) NE of TOKYO, Japan. Source: U.S. Geological Survey.
The wave was recorded in Ishinomaki, a city in Miyagi prefecture that was badly hit by the tsunami of March 2011, which killed thousands.
Earlier, a strong earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan in the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 and struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Miyagi prefecture.
The epicentre was 10km beneath the seabed.
Initial warnings said the tsunami could be as high as 2m.
There is no tsunami warning current for Australia or neighbouring nations.
NHK television broke off regular programming to warn that a strong quake was due to hit shortly before the earthquake struck. Afterward, the announcer repeatedly urged all near the coast to flee to higher ground.
Comme UFO,non identifié sous-marin objets( UMO) sont connus de exist.USSR dans ses dossiers confidentiels parle de cela. Nous savons que des cercles de culture sur des terres. Maintenant vient la news que les crop circles ont été remarqué dans la mer, au sud du Japon à 80 pieds vers le bas, ce qui a été video-graphique.
Under Water Crop Circles
” C’est une structure sous-marine construit environ 80 pieds sous-marin au large de la côte du sud île japonaise d’Anami Oshima. Comme personne n’avait jamais rencontré quoi que ce soit de ce genre, un plongeur et photographe sous-marin Yoji Ookata était à perte pour expliquer ce qu’avait construit la circulaire, répétition, et clairement structure géométrique. Les architectes de cet exploit d’ingénierie subaquatique ont été découverts par diffuseur japonais NHK, et la réponse à ce qui construit les six pieds et demi large structure est à la fois banale et vraiment impressionnant.
Le constructeur, il s’avère, était un seul ordinaire – mais exceptionnellement laborieuse – poissons-globes. Une équipe de cinéma de NHK jalonnés cette bizarre création uniquement à trouver que l’ensemble de la structure a été creusée par un seul mâle poissons-globes, inlassablement balançant sa fin dans le sable pour créer les gorges et les crêtes de la structure, ce qui est de nombreuses fois la taille de son propre corps.
Ils ont également constaté qu’au-delà de la simple sculpture les formes répétées, il était également décorer la structure comme il l’a construit, servant de petites pierres et coquillages.
Pourquoi est-ce qu’un poissons-globes passer avec tous ces ennuis, vous demander? Ainsi, pour le même, sans doute l’une et seule raison les hommes de toute espèce ne jamais – à attirer un compagnon. La structure, aussi frappants et exotiques comme il peut regarder, en particulier sous la surface des vagues, est effectivement un étonnamment pragmatique, agissant à la fois comme nid d’amour et nursery pour les poissons-globes. Les femelles sont tirées dans les structures où ils s’accouplent avec les hommes et de laisser leurs oeufs fécondés derrière.
C’est alors qu’il devient clair que ces arêtes ne sont pas simplement pour embellir le quartier. Elles servent de tampons pour les courants océaniques, en veillant à ce que les nouveaux œufs fécondés rester en un seul endroit. Chercheurs ont émis l’hypothèse que les coquilles l’puffer apporte à la structure peut également être plus que décoratif, Et pourrait fournir la nutrition pour le développement des oeufs._ _geekosystem.com liés: YouTube write-up; Yoji Ookata qui a obtenu sa licence plongée à l’âge de 21 ans et a dépensé depuis les 50 dernières années explorer et documenter ses découvertes au large des côtes du Japon. Récemment lors d’une plongée près Amami Oshima à la pointe sud du pays, Ookata repéré quelque chose qu’il n’avait jamais rencontrés avant : ondulation sable géométrique modèles près de six pieds de diamètre près de 80 pieds au-dessous du niveau de la mer.
Il revint bientôt avec les collègues et une équipe de télévision de la nature programme NHK au document les origines ce qu’il a baptisé le “mystère cercle.”
caméras sous-marines a montré que l’artiste était un petit poissons puffer qui, en n’utilisant que son battement ailette, a travaillé inlassablement jour et nuit pour tailler les crêtes circulaire.
L’improbable artiste – mieux connu au Japon comme un mets délicat, quoique potentiellement toxiques – prend même petits coquillages, fissures, et lignes les gorges intérieures de sa sculpture comme si décorer son morceau. Autre observation a révélé que “ce mystérieux cercle ” n’était pas seulement là pour faire le plancher océanique faire joli. Attirés par les rainures et les dorsales, les femmes poissons puffer
Now comes the news that Crop Circles have been noticed in the sea South of Japan at 80 feet down and this has been video-graphed.
Under Water crop Circle in Japan
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“This is an underwater structure built about 80 feet underwater off the coast of the southern Japanese island of Anami Oshima.Considering no one had ever encountered anything like it, diver and underwater photographerYoji Ookata was at a loss to explain what had built the circular, repeating, and clearly geometric structure. The architects of this feat of underwater engineering were discovered by Japanese broadcaster NHK, and the answer to what built the six and a half foot wide structure is at once mundane and really impressive.
The builder, it turns out, was a single ordinary — but exceptionally hard-working – pufferfish.
A film crew from NHK staked out this bizarre creation only to find that the entire structure was carved out by a single male pufferfish, tirelessly swinging his fin in the sand to create the grooves and ridges of the structure, which is many times the size of his own body. They also found that beyond just carving out the repeating shapes, he was also decorating the structure as he built it, peppering it with small stones and seashells.
Why would a pufferfish go through with all this trouble, you ask? Well, for the same, arguably one and only reason males of any species do anything ever — to attract a mate.
The structure, as striking and alien as it may look, especially beneath the surface of the waves, is actually a stunningly pragmatic one, acting as both love nest and nursery for the pufferfish. Females are drawn to the structures, where they mate with the males and leave their fertilized eggs behind. That’s when it becomes clear that those ridges aren’t just for beautifying the neighborhood. They serve as buffers to the ocean currents, making sure the newly fertilized eggs stay in one place. Researchers hypothesize that the shells the puffer brings to the structure may also be more than decorative, and could provide nutrition for the developing eggs._
Yoji Ookata who obtained his scuba license at the age of 21 and has since spent the last 50 years exploring and documenting his discoveries off the coast of Japan. Recently while on a dive near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of the country, Ookata spotted something he had never encountered before: rippling geometric sand patterns nearly six feet in diameter almost 80 feet below sea level. He soon returned with colleagues and a television crew from the nature program NHK to document the origins what he dubbed the “mystery circle.”
Underwater cameras showed that the artist was a small puffer fish who, using only his flapping fin, tirelessly worked day and night to carve the circular ridges. The unlikely artist — best known in Japan as a delicacy, albeit a potentially poisonous one — even takes small shells, cracks them, and lines the inner grooves of his sculpture as if decorating his piece. Further observation revealed that this “mysterious circle” was not just there to make the ocean floor look pretty. Attracted by the grooves and ridges, female puffer fish would find their way along the dark seabed to the male puffer fish where they would mate and lay eggs in the center of the circle. In fact, the scientists observed that the more ridges the circle contained, the more likely it was that the female would mate with the male. The little sea shells weren’t just in vain either. The observers believe that they serve as vital nutrients to the eggs as they hatch, and to the newborns.
What was fascinating was that the fish’s sculpture played another role. Through experiments back at their lab, the scientists showed that the grooves and ridges of the sculpture helped neutralize currents, protecting the eggs from being tossed around and potentially exposing them to predators.”
A HUGE explosion blew off the roof and walls of Japan’s quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and people nearby were warned to stay indoors amid reports of a radiation leak and possible meltdown.
The explosion highlighted the scale of the disaster facing Japan following Friday’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake and 33-feet (10-meter) tsunami that devastated the country’s northeastern coast.
Dramatic TV footage showed the blast ripping through the aging coastal facility, sending plumes of smoke billowing high into the air.
“We are now trying to analyze what is behind the explosion,” said government spokesman Yukio Edano, warning that people nearby should quickly evacuate. “We ask everyone to take action to secure safety,” he said.
Edano confirmed that there had been a radiation leak at the plant, and broadcaster NHK said the evacuation radius around the plant was doubled to 12 miles (20 kilometers).
UPDATE 11.45pm: A NUCLEAR power plant exploded, a day after the huge Japanese earthquake damaged the facility’s cooling system.
Nuclear authorities had earlier warned that the Fukushima No.1 plant, about 250km northeast of Tokyo, an urban area of 30 million people, “may be experiencing a nuclear meltdown“.
The plant’s cooling system was damaged in the quake that hit on Friday, leaving the government scrambling to fix the problem and evacuate more than 45,000 residents within a 10km radius.
The operator of a stricken nuclear plant, TEPCO, believed a reactor container was not damaged despite a large explosion at the plant, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary said.
Japan’s government says the metal container sheltering a nuclear reactor was not affected by an explosion that destroyed the building it’s in.
Pressure and heat have been building at the nuclear reactor since an earthquake and tsunami on Friday caused its cooling system to fail.
An explosion on Saturday blew out the walls of the building housing the reactor. The government has ordered people within a 20km radius of the plant in Fukushima to evacuate the area.
Mr Edano added that radiation levels near the Fukushima plant had fallen after the blast, amid fears of a possible nuclear meltdown following a devastating earthquake and tsunami on Friday.
Public broadcaster NHK reported that a blast had been heard at about 5.30pm (Melbourne time) and showed delayed footage of the explosion and smoke billowing from the site, also reporting that the reactor building had been destroyed.
TV channels warned nearby residents to stay indoors, turn off airconditioners and not to drink tap water. People going outside were also told to avoid exposing their skin and to cover their faces with masks and wet towels.
Meanwhile thousands are feared dead as Japan continues to reel from Friday’s horror earthquake and tsunami.
There are concerns for the safety of at least 160 Australians in the worst-hit areas of Japan.
The powerful quake that unleashed a devastating tsunami appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 2.4m and shifted the Earth on its axis, earthquake experts say.
Emergency crews began searching for survivors of the 8.9 magnitude “megaquake” and subsequent tsunami that washed away entire villages, cars and bridges, set oil refineries on fire and had several nuclear power plants on alert on the Pacific coast.
Rescuers continued to dig through rubble and pluck survivors of the quake – 8000 times stronger than the one that crippled Christchurch last month – from the roofs of submerged houses.
There were fears for the safety of Australians living near the epicentre of the quake at Sendai, 405km north of Tokyo, a popular area for Aussies working as English-language teachers and translators.
The regions of Miyagi, Iwate, Fukushima, Ibraki and Aomori were worst affected. Police in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, said 300 bodies had been found on the shore.
A tsunami (Japanese: 津波[tsɯnami], lit. ‘harbor wave’;[1]English pronunciation: /suːˈnɑːmi/soo-NAH-mee) is a series of water waves (called a tsunami wave train[2]) caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, usually an ocean, but can occur in large lakes. Tsunamis are a frequent occurrence in Japan; approximately 195 events have been recorded.[3] Owing to the immense volumes of water and the high energy involved, tsunamis can devastate coastal regions.
The Greek historian Thucydides was the first to relate tsunami to submarine earthquakes,[4][5] but understanding of tsunami’s nature remained slim until the 20th century and is the subject of ongoing research. Many early geological, geographical, and oceanographic texts refer to tsunamis as “seismic sea waves.”
Some meteorological conditions, such as deep depressions that cause tropical cyclones, can generate a storm surge, called ameteotsunami, which can raise tides several metres above normal levels. The displacement comes from low atmospheric pressure within the centre of the depression. As these storm surges reach shore, they may resemble (though are not) tsunamis, inundating vast areas of land. Such a storm surge inundated Burma in May 2008.
A tsunami causes major damage in north-eastern Japan, after a massive 8.8-magnitude (updated by NHK) earthquake strikes off the coast today, March 11, 2011. I cant imagine how people on land are coping with this. Phone lines are down. What would you would do if you couldn’t make a CALL for help?! Fires are sparking everywhere as well.This is really sad. Neighboring countries to Japan also have Tsunami alerts as of 7:15PM– Philippines, Indonesia, Guam, and Hawaii are just four of the 20+ countries on Tsunami alert.
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