Japan earthquake: live - Telegraph A German geoscience centre has produced an animation of the flash of earthquakes that have affected Japan in the last eight days. It's available here
http://bit.ly/ejRHpe Here are the latest minute-by-minute updates on the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami as the struggle continues to avert a full-blown nuclear disaster in the reactors at Fukushima. Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel was jeered as she announced that her country should make a "measured exit" from nuclear power.
France is to send 95 tonnes of boron to help try to cool the reactors, the Energy and Industry Minister Eric Besson said, after offering it first last Saturday.
Spiking levels of radiation at Fukushima caused by the failing reactors can clearly be seen in
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Radioactive particles have been detected on 25 passengers arriving in Taiwan from Japan, according to the authorities there, who have deployed specialist military units trained in nuclear defence at its three airports. It's not clear what they're hoping to achieve but food arriving from Japan is now being screened.
Cash machines across Tokyo are shutting down, reportedly caused by the sudden increase in withdrawals.The price of gold has jumped by $2 an ounce in the city, and there are claims of long queues at passport centres as people attempt to leave Japan for the first time in their lives.
"Based on scientific evidence there is absolutely no reason to leave Tokyo," Japan government official says amid growing exodus, according to NBC News.
Twitter has picked up on elderly people dying after the hospital they were in had to be evacuated due to radiation fears.
More and more expats are trying to leave Japan.
Link Removed - Invalid URL Readers have remarked on our man Julian Ryall's moving piece from Ishinomaki. I've posted a flavour below in case you missed it or the
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Many of the children taking refuge at the Kama Elementary School, on the eastern fringes of the town of Ishinomaki, are playing in the corridors or helping their parents scrub mud-coated boots in the filthy water of the school pool.
But the atmosphere in the room on the third floor, where 30 children whose parents simply disappeared when the tsunami swept through the town, is very different.
Viewed through the window, the children sit more still and are apparently engrossed in books or card games. They are watched over by other relatives or teachers and we are not allowed to enter or speak with them. Understandably, they do not want their charges to have more reminders of the disaster that has befallen them.
Masami Hoshi was the sports teacher at the school but, since the Japanese tsunami, has been trying to get enough food for the 657 people living in the four-storey school building and locate missing students and their parents.
He has achieved that with a handful, but these 30 are still alone.
Japan earthquake: live - Telegraph