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Japan suffered another strong earthquake today, April 7, 2011 at 14:32UTC. Here's the details from the USGS .

I saw this and I was shocked!

It is now reported that there is now over 15,214 dead or missing after the Japan earthquake and tsunami as reported on CNN.

Comet Elenin has arrived and is heading towards earth. It has aligned twice with earth and the sun and on each occasion coincided with one of the most powerful earthquakes in history shifting the earth's axis 8 cm the first time and 25 cm the second. It will pass between earth and the sun later this year. Is it a comet? or a brown dwarf? Here's the date from NASA tracking Comet Elenin . Some say this is not a comet, but actually Nibiru or the twelfth planet or Planet X. It has a highly elliptical orbit around the sun and takes it out way beyond Pluto. It is said that Nibiru takes 3,600 years to complete one orbit and was said to be last seen around 160 BC. Some speculates that Nibiru could actually be the Star of Bethlehem which was seen 2000 years ago. Scary isn't it? I guess only time will tell if this is real.

Here's a photo of a Filipino freighter crew in a shelter in Kamaishi City, Iwate prefecture who survived after their shipped M.V. Asia Symphony was carried ashore by the tsunami on March 16, 2011. As always, even in tragedy, we Filipinos always manages to smile. Here's their ship. I don't have any info as to their current status, if anybody knows, please leave a comment. More photos at The Big Picture .

There's new report that there's been an explosion and fire at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan. Based on some reports, the situation could be getting into Chernobyl type of an accident. With Japan being a densely population country, millions of people could be affected. Officials have evacuated citizens within a 20 mile radius and have asked those who are living up to a 30 mile radius to stay indoors and cover themselves up with long sleeves and avoid any skin showing for preventative measure. More story at CNN.com .

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer . MANILA, Philippines—Better brush up on geography to prevent getting fooled by hoax text messages and information amid the radiation alert in Japan, the country’s chief volcanologist said Tuesday. “It is important for us to go back to what we've learned in Araling Panlipunan, particularly geography so that we won't be alarmed by such text messages and we can avoid the unnecessary worry,” said Renato Solidum Jr., head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. He said the tsunami alert the Phivolcs raised on the eastern coast of the country following the powerful quake and tsunami that ravaged Japan on Friday, also caused residents in the Philippines' western region to suffer needless panic attacks. Fear also gripped some parts of the country on Monday following false reports that radioactive fallout from crippled nuclear plants in Japan would reach the Philippines. The rumors, which circulated through text messages, sent p...

Micah Frank a sound programmer from Brooklyn created this sonic representation of the Japanese earthquake on March 11, 2011 using Tectonic. It's pretty eerie. Earthquakes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan - Friday March 11, 2011 by Micah Frank Tectonic is a realtime seismic analysis and sound synthesis system. Sound is created in realtime by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Symbolic Sound’s Kyma processes earthquake data that is translated into sound synthesis parameters. A USGS XML feed is parsed into numerous fields including magnitude, elevation, time of day and geographical coordinates. These data are mapped to synthetic spectrums and processed by granular, aggregate and subtractive synthesis.

Here are some photos of the devastation caused by the Japan earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 from Boston.com's The Big Picture. More photos at The Big Picture .

I've been reading some compiled Tweets on how the Japanese people are helping each other after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan. It's heartwarming how the best in people come out in this time of tragedy. Here's the link to the translated Tweets .

From New Scientist . Seismologists at the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, have just revised their calculations regarding the magnitude of today's quake. They now say it was magnitude 9.0. Already one of the top 10 recorded earthquakes in history, the revision suggests the quake was even more powerful than first thought. Harold Tobin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison told New Scientist that this figure will probably change again. This is typical in the hours after a large seismic event, as more information becomes available. Earlier today, it was suggested that the tremor may have occurred along a splay fault - a branch off the main megathrust fault which runs through this area of the Japan trench. If so, that could mean the fault was previously unknown to geologists. Splay faults tend to break at steeper angles than megathrust quakes, making them highly likely to lead to a large uplift of the seafloor that produces damaging tsunamis such as the one that crashed...

Here's the link to the American Red Cross to donate the the disaster relief operations for the #Japan Earthquake and Pacific #Tsunami.

Here are the latest updates on the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. The earthquake is reported to be the 5th largest in recorded history. Here's a video of Japan's Sendai airport completely under water due to the tsunami that hit it after the earthquake. Here's a video from Al Jazeera TV on the Japan earthquake with tsunami washing away cars and buildings. Here's a video showing the tsunami battering ship, homes and cars. Here's a report from Russia Today showing oil refineries in Japan on fire due to the earthquake. Here are several videos from the BBC on the Japan Earthquake. One is showing a gigantic whirlpool created by the earthquake. Here are the latest hi-res photos of the earthquake from The Big Picture at Boston.com. Tsunami warning were put up across the entire Pacific Rim including the U.S. West Coast and Canada. A few hours later, a tsunami hit Hawaii but did not cause major damage. From Metro News . Police said 200 to 300 bodi...

Shocking video of tsunami hitting Japan. Some coastal areas were hit with tsunami as high as 10 meters.

Here's the latest tsunami warning from the Pacific Disaster Center . Tsunami ETA Time Starting time: UTC (mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm): 03/11/2011 05:46 Latitude/Longitude: 38.0N 142.9E Location: NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN Magnitude: 7.9 Arrival Time is in UTC Country Forecast Point Latitude Longitude Arrival Time Hawaii Nawiliwili 22.0N 159.4W 1256Z 11 Mar 2011 Honolulu 21.2N 157.8W 1314Z 11 Mar 2011 Hilo 19.8N 155.0W 1332Z 11 Mar 2011 Philippines Laoag 18.2N 120.5E 1013Z 11 Mar 2011 San Fernando 16.7N 120.2E 1032Z 11 Mar 2011 Palanan 17.1N 122.6E 0953Z 11 Mar 2011 Manila 14.7N 120.8E 1149Z 11 Mar 2011 Legaspi 13.2N 123.8E 1035Z 11 Mar...

Here's a live stream video on NHK. You can see the tsunami moving inland. Russia added to tsunami warning. 6 meter tsunami warning in some areas of Japan. This was recorded as the 7th strongest earthquake since they started keeping records.

More videos from CNN about the massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan. Tsunami warning in 19 countries. Warning sirens in Hawaii.

An 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan today. The epicenter was 373 kilometers (231 miles) away from the capital, Tokyo. Thursday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off the coast of Honshu and a day earlier, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off of Honshu, the country's meteorological agency said. Tsunami warning in Japan, Indonesia, Chile, Hawaii, Peru, New Zealand and Philippines. Here's the video report from CNN.