natural disasters
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What’s Inside The Shelter Boxes Going To Japan?
ShelterBox is sending their awesome, super-compact, heavy duty disaster relief boxes to Japan (you can help them with a single $US1 donation). They pack 100 pounds of equipment in just 33 x 24 x 22 inches. Here’s what is inside:
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‘Nobody’s Running Around Like A Chicken With Their Heads Off’
Last Friday afternoon, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 rocked north-east Japan. Minutes later, the coastline was hit with a tsunami, leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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Nuke Experts: Japan May Have Only Hours Before Meltdown
Worse news from the Fukushima plant – the facility has experienced a “station blackout”, meaning all cooling mechanisms have halted. This is “one of the most serious conditions that can affect a nuclear plant,” says the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Japan Tsunami Casually Hits San Francisco Bay
The Japan tsunami hit the San Francisco Bay Area, but left nary a scratch. This video of the tsunami gently rippling rippling through the Bay is a far cry from the damage done across the Pacific Ocean.