Japanese tsunami debris drifting toward Hawaii
| focus |
 |
LOS ANGELES — The discovery of a fishing boat and other debris in the Pacific suggests flotsam from Japan’s killer tsunami is drifting east faster than expected, researchers say.
The tsunami washed up to 20 million tons of debris off the Japanese coast on March 11, and researchers in Hawaii have developed computer models to forecast its movement and predict where and when it could come ashore.
They had predicted that the first landfall would be next spring on the Midway Islands, about 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) northwest of Honolulu on the main Hawaiian islands in the the northern Pacific ocean.
But their calculations have been revised after a Russian ship traveling from Hawaii to the Russian Far East last month spied tsunami debris in the northwestern Pacific, including the 20-foot (six-meter) boat from Fukushima, near the the site of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111027com3.html
1 comment
kung biodegradable sana lahat ng debris....
"“At the approaches to the mentioned position (maybe 10 to 15 minutes before) we also sighted a TV set, fridge and a couple of other home appliances,” she added, giving the GPS location as N31.04, E174.21.
"Five days later, on Sept. 27, she wrote: “We keep sighting every day things like wooden boards, plastic bottles, buoys from fishing nets (small and big ones), an object resembling wash basin, drums, boots, other wastes."
Post a Comment