Fresh Earthquake magnitude 7.1 hits Japan again on 7th April 2011 | Tsunami alert in North Japan!!!!!!!!!

Workers at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were evacuated after a fresh earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1, but officials said it had no detectable effect at the plant.

A tsunami alert for north-east Japan was issued but lifted after 90 minutes.
The earthquake - at a depth of 49km (32 miles) - struck close to the epicenter of the 11 March quake, which triggered a devastating tsunami.
Japanese authorities ordered a new evacuation from the warning zone.
All seven of the workers at Fukushima Daiichi were safe, a spokesman for plant operator Tepco told a news conference in Tokyo."They have not been injured and they have all taken shelter in our seismic resistant building. We are continuing to inject water, or we are continuing the injection operation at reactors 1, 2 and 3," said the spokesman, whose name was not given.
The workers are trying to keep the damaged reactors cool to stop further releases of radioactive material.
Thursday's quake struck at 2332 local time (1432 GMT) on Thursday, 118km (78 miles) north of Fukushima, 40km offshore.
First reports said it had a magnitude of 7.4 but that was later revised downwards to 7.1, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
Last month's earthquake had a magnitude of 9.0 and struck at 32km deep.

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Again tsunami hited japan today!!!!!!!!!!!!! earthquake 7.2 is occured in japan!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOKYO, April 7 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale jolted Japan's Miyagi Prefecture and its vicinity in northeastern Japan at 23:32 p.m. (1432 GMT) local Time Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

The JMS earlier issued tsunami warning following the strong quake, but the alert was lifted later.

The focus of the quake was located some 40 km under the sea off the northeastern prefecture, where has been devastated by the March 11 earthquake, said the agency.

Xinhua's office building in Tokyo swayed for a while when the quake occurred.

The JMA considered the quake as the aftershock of the devastating quake last month.

The quake has not brought further damage to the nuclear power plants in Fukushima Prefecture so far, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. However, engineers stepping up efforts to fix the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been evacuated following the strong tremor late on Thursday, Tokyo Electric officials told a televised news conference.

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Japan rejected early US help on nuclear disaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan turned down a US offer to provide technical support for cooling fuel rods at nuclear reactors hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami, a newspaper reported on Friday.

The United States made the offer immediately after the disaster caused damage to Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant, the Yomiuri Shimbun said, quoting a senior official of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.

According to the unnamed senior official, US support was based on dismantling the troubled reactors run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) some 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo, the mass-circulation daily said.

The government and TEPCO, both having first thought the cooling system could be restored by themselves, rejected the offer as they believed "it was too early to take," Yomiuri said.

Some ruling party and government officials pointed that the country could have avoided the current crisis if Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government had accepted the offer, it said.

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U.S. screening passengers, cargo from Japan for radiation!!!!!!!!!!!

WASHINGTON —

The Department of Homeland Security is screening passengers and cargo entering the United States from Japan for “even a blip of radiation,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday.
  
Customs and Border Protection said there have been reports of radiation being detected from some cargo arriving from Japan at several airports. Those airports include Chicago, Dallas and Seattle. Radiation has not been detected in passengers or luggage. And none of the reported incidents involved dangerous or harmful amounts of radiation.
  
The agency handles more than half a million radiation alarms a year, though many are related to medical procedures.
  
No harmful levels of radiation have reached the U.S. since the nuclear crisis in Japan sparked by last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, she said.

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Japan hopes to restore power at two crippled reactors !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOKYO - Japanese engineers raced to restore a power cable to a quake-ravaged nuclear power plant on Friday in the hope of restarting pumps needed to pour cold water on overheating fuel rods and avert a catastrophic release of radiation.

Officials said they hoped to fix the cable to two reactors on Friday and to two others by Sunday, but said work would stop in the morning to allow helicopters and fire trucks to resume pouring water on the Fukushima Daiichi plant, about 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.

"Preparatory work has so far not progressed as fast as we had hoped," an official of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) told a news briefing, adding that engineers had to be constantly checked for radiation levels.

Washington and other foreign capitals have expressed growing alarm about radiation leaking from the plant, severely damaged by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami a week ago that triggered a series of destructive explosions and compromised the nuclear reactors and spent fuel storage tanks.

Worst case scenarios would involve millions of people in Japan threatened by exposure to radioactive material, but prevailing winds are likely to carry any contaminated smoke or steam away from the densely populated Tokyo area to dissipate over the Pacific ocean.

U.S. President Barack Obama said the crisis posed no risk to any U.S. territory. He nevertheless ordered a comprehensive review of domestic nuclear plants.

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