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According to many reports in various online portals such as HERE:

Searchers have found 2,000 bodies in Japan's quake-hit Miyagi region.

The police chief in the prefecture said the death toll there was certain to exceed 10,000, with that many missing in the port town of Minamisanriku alone.

The national police agency said the confirmed death toll now stood at 1,597 but hundreds of bodies are being found along the shattered coastline.

Now if the police said death toll = 1597, what happened to the 2000 bodies and the 10 000 missing persons????

BBC News reported HERE:

The BBC's Rachel Harvey in the port town of Minamisanriku says everything has been flattened until about 2km inland.

It looks unlikely that many survivors will be found, she adds.

According to THIS SITE:

The Unites States Navy has moved its Seventh Fleet away from an earthquake-stricken Japanese nuclear power plant after detecting raised radiation levels.

The fleet said today that the radiation was from a plume of smoke and steam released from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, which has been hit by two explosions since Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami.



The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was about 100 miles (160km) offshore when its instruments detected the radiation.

But the fleet said the dose of radiation was about the same as one month's normal exposure to natural background radiation in the environment.

More than 180,000 people have been evacuated from the area.

Read more here.

Remember that on Saturday, when another explosion blew apart the building surrounding the plant's No. 1 reactor, authorities declared an exclusion zone within a 20 kilometre radius of the plant and evacuated 210,000 people.

In the latest issue of The New York Times:

As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants could go on for weeks or even months.

The emergency flooding of two stricken reactors with seawater and the resulting steam releases are a desperate step intended to avoid a much bigger problem: a full meltdown of the nuclear cores in two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. On Monday, an explosion blew the roof off the second reactor, not damaging the core, officials said, but presumably leaking more radiation.

So far, Japanese officials have said the melting of the nuclear cores in the two plants is assumed to be “partial,” and the amount of radioactivity measured outside the plants, though twice the level Japan considers safe, has been relatively modest.

But Pentagon officials reported Sunday that helicopters flying 60 miles from the plant picked up small amounts of radioactive particulates — still being analyzed, but presumed to include cesium-137 and iodine-121 — suggesting widening environmental contamination.

In a country where memories of a nuclear horror of a different sort in the last days of World War II weigh heavily on the national psyche and national politics, the impact of continued venting of long-lasting radioactivity from the plants is hard to overstate.

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According to a very reliable international source, ALL RED CROSS around the globe has NOT been given clearance to assist them in rescue operations in the disaster-stricken zones. WHY?

There are also many repeats in various news channels. WHY???

The numbers don't tally. Reports are NOT really forthcoming. I am sure that things are worse than what we hear or read!!! :-(

My heart goes out to Japan, her victims and the rest of us on this earth. We have to brace ourselves for VERY TOUGH TIMES AHEAD.

As I type this, the fact remains that many survivors are spending another night without water, electricity, fuel or enough food, as authorities appeared overwhelmed by the monumental scale of the disaster. Hypothermia, dysentery and many other diseases could set in soon because of all the complications.

We all may face a serious nuclear disaster that has more dangerous and far-reaching consequences than the 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan. Think of the loss in lives, property and the impact on Japan and the world economy, on your life, my life - all of us.

:-(

To think that there are still people fighting over bibles, cartoons, race and accenting on MINOR issues without realizing the MAJOR fact that in many ways, Malaysia is a very blessed country! We are not really in the earthquake zone. I hope that leaders and citizens will stop bickering and appreciate what we have, foster harmony, unity and learn to see and to accept one another as MALAYSIANS.

May God help and deliver us from times of trouble!!!