JAPAN - Quake/Tsunami Roundup

"Japan Reels From Tsunami, Quake: Did Preparations Work?"
PBS Newshour 3/11/2011

Other links:

• "How Shifting Plates Caused the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan" New York Times 3/11/2011


• "Japanese Scramble to Avert Meltdowns as Nuclear Crisis Deepens After Quake" by HIROKO TABUCHI and MATTHEW L. WALD, New York Times 3/12/2011

Excerpt



The emergency appeared to be the worst involving a nuclear plant since the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago. The developments at two separate nuclear plants prompted the evacuation of more than 200,000 people. Japanese officials said they had also ordered up the largest mobilization of their Self-Defense Forces since World War II to assist in the relief effort.



• "Radioactive Releases in Japan Could Last Months, Experts Say" by DAVID E. SANGER and MATTHEW L. WALD, New York Times 3/13/2011

Excerpt



On Monday, an explosion blew the roof off the second reactor, not damaging the core, officials said, but presumably leaking more radiation.



• "Fareed's Take: What the devastation in Japan teaches us" Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN 3/13/2011


• "Map: Impact of Japan tsunami and earthquake" CNN News (map includes video links, opens in new page)
  


• "Map of the Damage From the Japanese Earthquake" New York Times (map includes pic links, opens in new page)