[138618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: so big earthquake in JP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Mar 11 09:12:10 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <1C66D369-2C5A-447B-834E-E3DC9B180212@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:11:28 -0500
To: pacnog@pacnog.org,
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On Mar 11, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Daniel Belin wrote:
> Are we aware of how much the infrastructure has been damaged yet? Are =
aftershocks still going?
Subway & bus lines are still down. Fire at the nuke plant has been put =
out, no radiation detected, but they still evacuated a couple thousand =
residents because the backup generator failed & the water pump is not =
pumping.
The Japanese gov't has sent troops into some areas, asked Washington to =
let the US service men in .jp (about 50K) help. I don't know if D.C. =
has agreed, but I can't imagine Obama would say no.
A few hundred bodies have been found so far.
It is very bad. But it could have been worse, the Japanese are very =
well prepared (building codes, emergency procedures, etc.).
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
