Showing posts with label earthquake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label earthquake. Show all posts

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Live blog: Japan earthquake


By Al Jazeera Staff inon March 11th, 2011.
A ship is washed aground in Kamaishi City, Iwate, by the tsunami which followed the Japanese earthquake [Picture: Reuters]
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(All times are local in Japan GMT+9)
  • 5:00am
    That's it for this liveblog - our technical staff tell us we've just got too much news on it for many browsers to handle. So we're switching over to a brand new, fresh liveblog for March 13. Make sure you keep up to date, by clicking here. Thanks for reading.
  • 4:00am
    Thousands of evacuees join those spending a second night in shelters away from home. These people have been ordered from their homes near the radiation-leaking Fukushima nuclear reactor.
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  • 3:37am
    Ritsuko Allen, who we spoke to yesterday, has been back in touch with Al Jazeera's D.Parvaz, informing us that water and energy conservation efforts have started. She says: