are the deities pissed at Japan? more quakes

[Lady Cop]

those poor people!

Tokyo (CNN) -- A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck Japan Tuesday morning, after a similar quake rattled the northeastern part of the country Monday evening.

The quake struck at about 8:08 a.m. Tuesday (7:08 p.m. Monday ET), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It had a depth of about 13 kilometers (8 miles) and was centered about 77 miles east-southeast of Tokyo.

Earlier, a powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Monday night, on the one-month anniversary of the country's devastating 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami.

The new earthquake triggered landslides that trapped several people in the city of Iwaki.

The quake was centered about 100 miles (164 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo and about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

[Fibonacci Prima]

Godzilla has pms.

[Lady Cop]

[Fibonacci Prima]

Maybe she needs some Midol with a sake chaser.

Not that I've ever done that...

[Lady Cop]

~BETTER LUCK IN NEXT LIFE~

[BlueTiki]

Godzilla has pms.

Someone needs to find the little singing twin girls.

Fast!

[Fibonacci Prima]

I'd gladly adopt a family so they had a safe place til bitchzilla got tired. I love bento boxes!

[Lady Cop]

many evocative photos here, slideshow, i am unable to nick them--->

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2011/04/w...tml?hpt=T2

[Fibonacci Prima]

So sad. I joke, but really this is heartbreaking. I have such a special place in my heart for japan.

Did you read about the 80something yr ok'd woman who outran the tsunami on her bike?! Awesome lady!!

[Lady Cop]

yep. they are royally Fukushimad.

The Japanese government's nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency made the decision on Monday. It says the damaged facilities have been releasing a massive amount of radioactive substances, which are posing a threat to human health and the environment over a wide area.

The agency used the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, or INES, to gauge the level. The scale was designed by an international group of experts to indicate the significance of nuclear events with ratings of 0 to 7.


Tokyo (CNN) -- Japanese authorities Tuesday "provisionally" declared the country's nuclear accident a level-7 event on the international scale for nuclear disasters -- the highest level -- putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced the new level Tuesday morning. It had previously been at 5.

Regulators have determined the amount of radioactive iodine released by the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was at least 15 times the volume needed to reach the top of the International Nuclear Event Scale, the agency said. That figure is still about 10 percent of the amount released at Chernobyl, they said.