{"id":4328,"date":"2011-03-21T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2011-03-21T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T04:30:31","slug":"japan-tsunamiearthquake-update-for-monday-march-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4328","title":{"rendered":"Japan Tsunami\/Earthquake Update for Monday, March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more brief update on the aftermath of the Sendai earthquake\/tsunami:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/death-toll-from-japans-disasters-over-8000-more-than-12000-missing\/2011\/03\/20\/ABF4yV0_print.html\">Death toll at 8,000, with 13,000 missing.<\/a>\n<li>All six of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaea.org\/newscenter\/news\/tsunamiupdate01.html\">appear to be under control<\/a>, though there appears to be damage to the reactor cores of reactors 1-3. Those reactors have been given an International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) rating of 5, which would put it on par with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaea.org\/Publications\/Factsheets\/English\/ines.pdf\">Three Mile Island<\/a>, but well below the 7 assigned to Chernobyl.\n<li>Foot shortages in Tokyo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-18\/tokyo-food-shortage-caused-by-quake-may-be-easing-aeon-says.html\">appear to be easing<\/a>.\n<li>Sendai port is open and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/4438623c-53c3-11e0-a01c-00144feab49a.html#axzz1HFzvxqvj\">receiving emergency fuel shipments<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<p>Tsunami video from Miyako City in Iwate Prefecture:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0wYiNnHEGyY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?tag=sendai\">This and all previous posts on the Sendai earthquake and tsunami can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more brief update on the aftermath of the Sendai earthquake\/tsunami: Death toll at 8,000, with 13,000 missing. All six of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant appear to be under control, though there appears to be damage to the reactor cores of reactors 1-3. Those reactors have been given an International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[934,943,153,938,935,937,1974],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-earthquake","tag-fukushima-daiichi","tag-japan","tag-nuclear","tag-sendai","tag-tsunami","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}