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I hope that the earth has calms down enough now for the recovery to happen without further concerns.. may those yet to be saved, saved, and those that's gone to be in peace.

 

Here's more photos from http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/. Quotes taken from the site.

 

10. Cars and airplanes swept by a tsunami are pictured among debris at Sendai Airport, northeastern Japan March 11, 2011. There were several strong aftershocks and a warning of a 10-meter tsunami following the quake, which also caused buildings to shake violently in the capital Tokyo. (REUTERS/KYODO)

 

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21. A fire burns at a passenger terminal at Sendai Airport after the airport was swamped by a tsunami in northeastern Japan March 11, 2011. (REUTERS/KYODO)

 

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28. Sendai Airport is flooded after a tsunami following an earthquake in Sendai, northeastern Japan, March 11, 2011. (REUTERS/KYODO)

 

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So the airport did not have any airplane on tat time? <_<

opps, din saw the 1st photo :lol:

that is a very nice photo...

n scary..

Edited by Wong Y. K.

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Hopefully all the debris at SDJ will be cleared so the airport could be reopened for cargo or humanitarian flights.

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Pictorial from flight arrivals, parking, handling of passengers for overnight stay until next day's departure to NRT. Yokota is the USAF base on the opposite side of tokyo bay facing NRT. It is in the shadow of Mt Fuji.

 

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NSC awaits green light to evacuate M’sian citizens

Posted on March 15, 2011, Tuesday

 

KOTA BAHARU: The National Security Council (NSC) is preparing to fly home Malaysian citizens living in areas affected by earthquake and tsunami in Japan.Its secretary, Datuk Mohamad Thajudeen Abdul Wahab said Malaysian citizens were reported to be safe and the government had yet to decide whether to evacuate them as it believed the situation was under control.

 

“Anyway, we are awaiting the green light to carry out the evacuation exercise.

 

“We have no problem in bringing Malaysian citizens home as we have experience in dealing with such situation,” he told reporters after chairing the Kelantan Security Committee meeting at the state police contingent headquarters here yesterday.

 

The Foreign Ministry managed to contact all 416 Malaysians studying in earthquake-hit Japan and have confirmed that they are all right.

 

There are 5,009 Malaysian citizens, including 2,100 students, registered with the Malaysian Embassy in Japan. Separately, Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Hou Kok Chung said a total of 242 Malaysian students who were in 10 areas where tremors of magnitude six and higher were felt in Japan on Friday have been accounted for and are safe.

 

He said at the Dewan Rakyat sitting the students were from 20 institutions of higher learning in Sendai which was the worst hit by the 8.9-magnitude quake and a 10-metre high tsunami unleashed by the tremblor.

 

He said records of the Japan Education Students Organisation showed that there were 2,465 Malaysian students in Japan, with 1,327 of them sponsored by the Malaysian government, 201 funded by the Japanese government and 937 self-financed.

 

“However, 1,521 students were registered with the (Malaysian) embassy,” he said when replying to a supplementary question from John Fernandez (DAP-Seremban).

 

John had wanted to know what measures the government had taken to get Malaysian students abroad to register with the Malaysian Students Department or embassy, including in Japan where he said there were students who could not be traced following Friday’s earthquake and tsunami.

 

Dr Hou said the Foreign Ministry would coordinate the Malaysian operations in Japan and students and parents should seek prior advice and instruction from the ministry.

 

Replying to John’s original question, he said Malaysian students registered with the Malaysian Students Department are nine in Singapore, 124 in China, 3,811 in the United Kingdom, 948 in the United States, 513 in France and 672 in Germany.

 

He said registration with the Malaysian Students Department was voluntary, and many of the students did not register themselves.

 

“The department and Malaysian embassies will continue to advise Malaysians and Malaysian students abroad to register to facilitate operations during a disaster or crisis in those countries,” he said. — Bernama

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RT: @typhoonfury: I paid about 4500HKD return to Japan on Cathay now they offering "special" 1 way tickets to HKD for 5800HKD. Sickening price gouging!!

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Wow, the power and wrath of mother nature

 

I guess the First Lady has an interesting opinion

 

Malaysian PM's wife: Japan's earthquake due to negligence

 

iReport —

 

Wife of Malaysian Prime Minister, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor said this when asked to comment on Japan's quake-tsunami disaster.

 

 

“Japan's earthquake and tsunami is a result of negligence in conducting environmental-friendly developments.

 

 

 

"To me, this is a lesson to other countries, that in everything they do or in whatever development they plan, they should study the surrounding environment and connect it with climate change and green technology," she told private news channel Astro Awani.

 

 

A video clip of Rosmah airing her view instantly became a hit among internet users, circulating in sites such as Twitter and Facebook, and being met with sarcastic comments from viewers.

 

 

 

The clip (in Malay language) can be viewed on

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She should learn a thing or two about geology of Japan before making comments. For many years, that country is always threatened with earthquakes, tsunamis and volcano eruptions. It has become part of their cultural acceptance. Extremely crowded nation like Japan adds to the challenge of balancing the threats of natural disasters, lack of natural resources and accommodating the people at the country's small percentages of available flat land. Until now, Japan overcome that challenge, but at the end of the day, human beings are at the mercy of God's act.

 

:pardon: Sorry, too much talking, I am disappointed with Zoy and now DS Rosmah.

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I guess the First Lady has an interesting opinion

 

Indeed the First Lady in the whole world to have such an opinion. :)

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KLIA becomes the first airport in the world to screen passengers arriving from Japan for radioactive contamination.

 

By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 3/15/2011

 

Air China, Taiwan's EVA cut back Japan flights

http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4711614

 

Air China said Tuesday it is cutting back flights to Japan over safety worries after a vast earthquake and tsunami, while Taiwan's EVA Airways cancelled some flights to Tokyo and Sapporo.

 

Malaysia's main airport began screening passengers returning from Japan for radioactive contamination as the quake-hit nation fought a nuclear crisis at a power plant, and South Korea said it was considering a similar measure.

 

But Air China said its worries were over aftershocks rather than radiation, while other Asian airlines said they would keep flying to Japan as normal apart from tsunami-hit Sendai.

 

Several countries in the region sought to dampen public fears over the nuclear emergency, saying they did not think they needed to screen those leaving Japan for radiation, although the situation worsened Tuesday with two more blasts at the stricken atomic plant.

 

Radiation around the Fukushima No. 1 plant reached levels dangerous to human health, the prime minister's chief spokesman said. Higher than normal radioactivity was also detected in Tokyo but it was not thought to be harmful.

 

The Chinese flag carrier cancelled half of its six daily Beijing-Tokyo flights for Tuesday and Wednesday, and one of its three Shanghai-Tokyo flights for each of the two days.

 

"We have cancelled some of the flights from China for safety reasons. But most flights remain normal," Air China spokeswoman Zhu Mei told AFP.

 

"The cancelled fights were those scheduled to stay one night at Japan airports. The planes could face danger in the event of aftershocks."

 

The airline's flights to Sendai were on hold after the airport there was flattened by the tsunami that swept the country's northeast after Friday's 9.0-magnitude quake.

 

But Zhu said so far she knew of no new disruptions over radiation fears.

 

"We have not received a notice (on the radiation issue)," she said. Air China was not screening any incoming passengers for radiation.

 

Taiwan's EVA Airways cancelled 14 flights scheduled to leave for Tokyo before the end of March and another five to Sapporo, as well as calling off all flights to Sendai until June 30, a spokesman for the firm said.

 

He blamed cancellations by tourists after the devastating twin natural disasters. The island has not so far carried out radioactivity screening.

 

But the company that runs Malaysia's airports said it was checking passengers for radiation as they emerged off direct flights from Japan.

 

"The screening started on Monday morning, involving three airlines which fly directly to Tokyo -- Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia X," a spokeswoman for Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad told AFP.

 

Officials from national carrier Malaysia Airlines and long-haul budget carrier AirAsia X said their flights were operating on schedule, however.

 

South Korean flights to Japan were operating as normal -- except to Sendai -- a spokesman for Incheon airport said, while Australian airlines Qantas and Jetstar said their flights were going ahead.

 

Indonesian and Hong Kong authorities and Singapore Airlines said their flight schedules would proceed, with Hong Kong saying passengers from Japan concerned about radiation exposure could visit a public hospital for a test.

 

Countries including Australia and Thailand have already urged their nationals not to go near the stricken plant and to reconsider travel to other areas affected by Friday's 9.0-magnitude quake and the subsequent tsunami.

 

Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano said Tuesday it was "very unlikely" Japan's problems could grow to resemble the nuclear crisis at Chernobyl in Ukraine, which caused widespread contamination in 1986.

 

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While in Thailand, iodine pills are distributed FOC to passengers bound for Japan amid fear of nuclear contamination.

 

By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 3/16/2011

 

Thailand to give iodine pills to Japan-bound flyers

http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4714308

 

Thailand's public health ministry said Wednesday that it would hand out free iodine tablets to passengers at airports where jets are departing for disaster-stricken Japan.

 

Fears about harmful nuclear contamination are growing after a series of explosions, fires and radiation leaks at a nuclear facility on Japan's northeastern coast, following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami.

 

"I have already ordered the government pharmaceutical organisation to produce back-up iodine tablets for special purposes," said a ministry statement.

 

"Initially, we will produce 15,000 tablets to distribute for free at the airports which have flights from Thailand to Japan, such as Suvarnabhumi airport (in Bangkok) and Phuket airport, starting tomorrow," it said.

 

"But we will screen and give only to passengers who are travelling to the risk area in northern Japan."

 

The ministry warned against all but necessary travel to the area, also saying it would offer advice and screenings to those returning to Thailand from Japan.

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She should learn a thing or two about geology of Japan before making comments. For many years, that country is always threatened with earthquakes, tsunamis and volcano eruptions. It has become part of their cultural acceptance. Extremely crowded nation like Japan adds to the challenge of balancing the threats of natural disasters, lack of natural resources and accommodating the people at the country's small percentages of available flat land. Until now, Japan overcome that challenge, but at the end of the day, human beings are at the mercy of God's act.

 

:pardon: Sorry, too much talking, I am disappointed with Zoy and now DS Rosmah.

Fully agreed, obviously coming an armchair analysts, her comments should be taken with a grain of salt. It is actually an insult to her intelligence. If there is any negligence involved, it would be her negligence to read and understand the whole of Japan's nuclear crisis fully.

 

Sustainable energy - imagine how many solar panels and wind mills will Japan has to allow for in order to generate the power they need. Japan was the 2nd largest economy (and now the 3rd largest), the energy demand is huge. Do we see much of the sustainable energy in her country? I read somewhere that her own country is going down the path of nuclear power plants.

 

The nuclear powerplants have done their job well to withstand the earthquakes and if it wasn't the tsunami which destroyed the backup facilities. They wouldn't have this crisis. If this incident had occurred in countries like Malaysia, I would think the worse had already happened.

 

In difficult times like this, it is best to lend our support instead of making some smart arse comments like hers.

Edited by S V Choong

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I don't think academic qualification is a pre-requisite for being a first lady.

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Fully agreed, obviously coming an armchair analysts, her comments should be taken with a grain of salt. It is actually an insult to her intelligence. If there is any negligence involved, it would be her negligence to read and understand the whole of Japan's nuclear crisis fully.

 

Sustainable energy - imagine how many solar panels and wind mills will Japan has to allow for in order to generate the power they need. Japan was the 2nd largest economy (and now the 3rd largest), the energy demand is huge. Do we see much of the sustainable energy in her country? I read somewhere that her own country is going down the path of nuclear power plants.

 

The nuclear powerplants have done their job well to withstand the earthquakes and if it wasn't the tsunami which destroyed the backup facilities. They wouldn't have this crisis. If this incident had occurred in countries like Malaysia, I would think the worse had already happened.

 

In difficult times like this, it is best to lend our support instead of making some smart arse comments like hers.

Very well said !

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Fully agreed, obviously coming an armchair analysts, her comments should be taken with a grain of salt. It is actually an insult to her intelligence. If there is any negligence involved, it would be her negligence to read and understand the whole of Japan's nuclear crisis fully.

 

Sustainable energy - imagine how many solar panels and wind mills will Japan has to allow for in order to generate the power they need. Japan was the 2nd largest economy (and now the 3rd largest), the energy demand is huge. Do we see much of the sustainable energy in her country? I read somewhere that her own country is going down the path of nuclear power plants.

 

The nuclear powerplants have done their job well to withstand the earthquakes and if it wasn't the tsunami which destroyed the backup facilities. They wouldn't have this crisis. If this incident had occurred in countries like Malaysia, I would think the worse had already happened.

 

In difficult times like this, it is best to lend our support instead of making some smart arse comments like hers.

 

 

100% agree......Malaysia of late is making headlines into CNN for reasons unbecoming .... and one wonders why our SMART team is still not in Japan..... I'm sure it has got something to do with the statement/comments by our so-called self appointed FLOM and the editor of Berita Harian which has upset the Jap people

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Like Isaac and Raymund, I agree with SV Choong, insensitive comments are not what we need now *face palms*. Regardless the devastating impact the quake and tsunami had impacted Japan, as someone who is working as business continuity (aka emergency planning) coordinator, I myself felt humbled down to the ground on the way the situation was handled. We planners always have these understanding at the back on our heads, that even if our plans are so on the dot and convincing as a superbly calamity-proof on paper etc, all those will be judged on how people react during the real thing, how they work on the recovery process, how efficient they get back on track in the aftermath. (I doubt I'd be able to even live thru on a full scale site closure in real life situation.. but touch wood it never happen!)

 

With regards to MAHB screening incoming passengers on direct flights from Japan for radioactive contamination, I'd rather them specify why the need for them to do this? The way it was reported sounds like they being inconspicuous and treating potential contaminated persons as contagious (well.. are radioactive contaminated persons contagious in the first place? Sorry am not sure on this). Air China seems to have their priority in order... I think we'd be in better light to state that these are for the sake of the passengers instead, as comfort offering to them. With the headlines we've been making, well.. at least that what we can do now..

 

Plus the Fukushima nuclear unit plant no. 1 has already been under control.. more up to date info on the nuclear from IAEA (UN's Nuclear Agency) site updates: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html

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Probably MAHB is unwelcoming Japanese visitors and MAHB is known to be over reacting or excesses e.g. thermal scanning of arriving pax although flu is no longer on travel alert. However, some cancer patients were made known by airport thermal scanning.

 

Further, believe few local medical centers are geared to handle radioactive case.

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The thing about KLIA radiation screening is for show only...anyone flying at high altitude is also exposed to radiation. How can they conclusively say that radiation is from Fukushima plants.

 

And giving iodine tablets is very dangerous, taking it can be fatal for those who're not exposed to radiation. It is not like taking anti-malaria pills.

 

1st Lady should learn from how other countries (HK, Taiwan, China) respond to the crisis:

- 1 week long tv donation charity concerts by singers/entertainers to raise donation for Japan.

- setting-up donation lines by phone, at banks, post office, convenient stores, bus/train/MTR stations, supermarkets.

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