Japan update:
- Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami, at The New York Times
(Move the blue slider in the middle of the photo to compare satellite images).
- Monday 14th, 19:27h.: "With the nuclear crisis grabbing most of the attention, it is perhaps worth remembering that millions of people in north-east Japan are spending their fourth night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures".
From BBC News Asia-Pacific Live, more @BBCWorld on Twitter
We all know about the recent events in Japan. If you wish to have first-hand information and updates from Japan, this site, in English, comes useful. And for radio boradcasts, also in English, they have this.
Here we are not used (anybody is, anywhere?) to devastating natural phenomena, so sometimes figures don't mean much. I do not understand very well the meaning of the term "logarithm", but I have read today that Richter Scale is a logarithm-based one, which implies that every increase in a full degree in the scale accounts for a magnitude 10 to 30 times higher than the previous one. For those of you who are into science, this chart explains it all:
Or, more simply:
More info on quakes here.
