Alcantarilla Alquimica: Quick Links to the Japan Quake

Friday, March 11, 2011

Quick Links to the Japan Quake - UPDATED

Fire boats battle a blaze at the Cosmo Oil facility in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo March 12, 2011. (REUTERS/Kyodo)

Busy.

But I just think some additional quake links are in order.

The Atlantic has large resolution pictures of the disiaster:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/#

Kottke has been linking to Al Jazerra's coverage, much better than CNN's

http://kottke.org/

http://kottke.org/11/03/photos-of-the-japanese-earthquake-and-tsunami

Update: Marzo 18, 2011
No tengo tiempo de estar viendo lo que ha pasado con la situacion de Daiichi y la planta nuclear de TESCO asi que les dejo links con los que saben. Este link es para uno de los bulletin boards de Metafilter, muy interesantes links:
http://www.metafilter.com/101627/Japanpostearthquake-nuclear-crisis-keeps-going

Otrs buena fuente aqui:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7675

La imagen del articulo sale de aqui, es Chernobyl sobrepuesto a Japon, para poner las cosas en perspectiva.:
http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2011/03/chernobyl-as-worst-case-for-japan.html

Mas fotos aqui, BEFORE and AFTER slider:
http://flowingdata.com/2011/03/18/japan-satellite-photos-show-before-and-after/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html

Mas imagenes de the Atlantic aqui:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/japans-earthquake---the-aftermath/100023/
De aqui sale la imagen de alta resolucion arriba.

Mapas, mapas, mapas
http://maps.unomaha.edu/peterson/funda/MapLinks/Japan.htm

Dilema moral. Sacrificio por hacer lo correcto.
Sacrificarias tu vida o afectarias tu salud a sabiendas si eso implica que evito una catastrofe?
Punto negativo: los kamikaze
Punto positivo: la resistencia, los del underground train

Si sale de mi, que bien, es loable.
Else, mi vida por la gran empresa.
Puedo correro y dejar la compa/nia en el cuerno. Pero es moralmente correcto? Podre vivir con no haber hecho nada? h ttp://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7086/fukishimas_nuclear_martyrdom_and_occupational_hazards_of_the_atomic_ag/

The workers are being asked to make escalating — and perhaps existential — sacrifices that so far are being only implicitly acknowledged: Japan’s Health Ministry said Tuesday it was raising the legal limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker could be exposed, to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts, five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers.
The change means that workers can now remain on site longer, the ministry said. “It would be unthinkable to raise it further than that, considering the health of the workers,” the health minister, Yoko Komiyama, said at a news conference. There was also a suggestion on Wednesday that more workers may be brought to help save the power station.