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The Japanese agency of nuclear security reported an emergency in a second reactor located in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station exploded. The agency of nuclear security informed that the unit three of the plant has malfunctions with its cooling system. The agency...

Japanese authorities declared an emergency state when another atomic plant, in Onagawa, showed an increase in its radioactive levels. This morning the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA) informed that the nuclear central of Onagawa, Tohoku Electric Company, set a level of...

The accident at a Fukushima nuclear power plant is already the worst that has been lived since the Chernobyl disaster (Ukraine) in 1986. The failure of the reactor cooling system 1 of Daiichi nuclear plant has been classified by authorities as a category 4. This equates to an...

Early morning Japan mobilized a nationwide rescue affected by the quake and provides some food and waters to thousands in zones under siege without water, electricity, and telephone service. About 1,300 to 1,700, is the number of victim that fluctuates so far. Rescuers were still...

The Interior Minister, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, announced as a preventive measure that whole “flood” area of the coast of Chile should be evacuated before the 21:30 pm local time (00:30 GMT Sunday), with the possible arrival of a tsunami resulting from the earthquake that...

The quake, which struck at 15:00 in Japan, reached at 8.9 on the Richter scale and is the largest recorded earthquake in Japan in 140 years. At the moment, according to the latest reports of the local police, 288 people are dead and more than 349 are missing. The quake triggered...

The quake that stroke Japan’s North East today (8.9 degrees on the Richter scale) has caused tsunami waves to hit Hawaii. Kauai Island was the first one that received the impact, according to reports from the Tsunami Warning Center Pacific in Hawaii, the tsunami waves quickly...

Today, Karangetang Volcano erupted after the devastating earthquake of 8.9 degrees that slamed northeastern Japan. The volcano began to spew clouds of gas and lava down its slopes. Indonesian authorities have begun evacuating residents living in villages near the volcano. So far...

Japanese defence ministry officials told the Kyodo news agency that 1,800 homes in Fukushima prefecture have been destroyed. More than 1,000 people probably died in the massive earthquake and tsunami disaster that devastated parts of Japan on Friday, Kyodo news agency said. Some...

According to preliminary studies by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy (INGV), the earth may have suffered a displacement of nearly 10 cm in the axis of rotation due to the devastating earthquake of 8,9 magnitude on the Richter scale produced in Japan....