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Austria’s Federal Ministry for Science and Research has released an animated map showing radioactive material from the disaster in Japan moving across the Pacific Ocean toward California.
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Japan has been rocked by hundreds of aftershocks since a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck on March 11 at 2:46 p.m. Japan local time.
This map shows all aftershocks above magnitude 5.0, but you can also see a series of “smaller” quakes, starting several days earlier.
No mobile phones: People line up to use public telephone booths at Shibuya station in Tokyo.
Credit: Yomiuri / Reuters
Photos: Scenes from the devastation
8.9 earthquake kills hundreds in Japan
Waves hitting Hawaii not unusually high
Tsunami warning in northern and central California, Oregon
Sweep of tsunami captured on YouTube news video
Obama: “The U.S. stands ready to help”
Japan nuclear site declares state of emergencySouthern California beaches closed as waves expected from Japan earthquake
Tsunami will vary from 7 feet to 1.2 feet in Southern California
California harbors send big boats out to sea, secure moorings
Pacific Northwest bracing for surges
Tsunami’s ripple currents to be seen on Southern California beaches
Long Beach live-aboards wait for arrival
Newport Beach closes school, clears ocean and boardwalk
Long Beach warns people to evacuate the beachesPhoto: A worker inspects a caved-in section of the Joban Motorway near Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan slammed its eastern coast Friday. / Credit: Associated Press
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
In 2009, 15-year-old “Bunny” became one of Japan’s top authors of a genre called keitai — cellphone — novels.
Before becoming a novelist, Bunny was mostly using her phone for texting friends. But then she saw a TV ad about a keitai novel website that allowed users to write novels on cellphones for free.
Since then, her cellphone novel “Wolf Boy” has grossed more than $611,000. She has sold more than 110,000 paperback copies.
Photo credit: Yuriko Nagano / For The Times
