The Effect of Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster ( 11 March 2011 )

Below is a video about the tsunami..

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Sadly, the impact of this disaster doesn't stop there. Aside from debris and casualties, the disaster also brought a scary aftermath: radiation. Read article below:

Tokyo water warning on radiation

Tokyo's tap water is unfit for babies to drink after radiation from Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant affected the capital's water supply, officials said.

Radioactive iodine levels in some areas were twice the recommended safe level.
People in Fukushima prefecture, where the nuclear plant is located, have been told not to eat certain vegetables because of contamination worries.
Workers have been temporarily evacuated from the plant after black smoke was seen rising from reactor No 3.
Engineers have been trying to cool the reactors and spent fuel ponds to avoid a major release of radiation, after power to the cooling systems was knocked out by the earthquake and tsunami.
The authorities are warning people living in Tokyo not to allow babies less than a year old to drink water from the tap.
The level of radiation picked up in tests carried out on Tuesday was more than twice the level that is safe for infants to drink.
But officials have stressed that children would have to drink a lot of it before it harmed them. There is no immediate health risk to others.
The government has also ordered people living in Fukushima not to eat 11 types of green leafy vegetable grown locally that have been contaminated by radiation.
Local producers have been ordered not to send the goods to market, and in the neighbouring prefecture of Ibaraki they have been told to halt shipments of milk and parsley with immediate effect.
The Japanese Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said: "Even if these foods are temporarily eaten, there is no health hazard.
"But unfortunately, as the situation is expected to last for the long term, we are asking that shipments stop at an early stage, and it is desirable to avoid intake of the foods as much as possible."
He told a news conference that importers of Japanese foods should take a "logical stance".
The Food and Drug Administration in the US said that all milk and milk products and fresh fruits and vegetables from four Japanese prefectures - Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma - would be stopped from entering the United States.
Countries including China, Taiwan and South Korea have already been carrying out rigorous checks of Japanese food imports. 

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With this situation we can only pray and hope that everything will be back to normal soon..  ✿*ﾟ¨ﾟ✎･✿.｡.:* *¤°•★(¯`°.•°•.★* *★ .•°•.°´¯)*¤°•★




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