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The damaged roof of reactorNo. 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after an explosion that blew off the upper part of the structure is seen in thisSaturday photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
Seawater poured in to cool 1 reactor; venting starts at 2nd; thousands evacuated
A partial meltdown was likely under way at a second quake-stricken nuclear reactor, Japan’s top government spokesman said Sunday as operators frantically tried to halt a similar threat at a nearby reactor.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday another reactor of its quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plants had lost its cooling functions, while at least 15 people at a nearby hospital were found to have been exposed to radioactivity.
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March 10: In this photo released by China’s Xinhua news agency, citizens pass by a damaged building after a strong earthquake jolted Yingjiang county, southwest China’s Yunnan province.
BEIJING — An earthquake toppled houses and damaged a hotel and supermarket in China’s extreme southwest near the border with Myanmar on Thursday, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 200, officials and state media said.
The biggest earthquake on record to hit Japan rocked its northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-meter tsunami that killed hundreds of people and swept away everything in its path.
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Two powerful earthquakes hit waters off eastern Indonesia in rapid succession Thursday, prompting officials to briefly trigger a tsunami warning.
‘One side of the Earth has lurched to the right … up to 11ft and in some places been thrust up,’ he said. ‘We went and saw two houses that were completely snapped in half by the earthquake.’
The official death toll from an earthquake on China’s remote Tibetan plateau last week reached 1,944 on Monday, but rescuers dug out two more survivors who had been trapped under rubble for more than 100 hours.
