here we go again!

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2332 Thursday Japan time: 7.1 (USGS) 25mi underwater and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture (HuffPo), 72mi from Fukushima (USGS via NPR). Tsunami warning up to 2m in some parts of Miyagi prefecture, advisories in Iwate, Fukushima, and Ibaraki prefectures with arrival times (Japan Meteorological Agency). "From Tokyo, NPR's Greg Dixon reports that

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http://www.rferl.org/content/despite_assurances_russian_worry_about_japanese_radiation/2340533.html Russian media has an understandably paranoid eye on the situation, what with the Soviet administration downplaying the Chernobyl disaster until it was too late and people do remember this. Geography note for the lazy: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is in Sakhalin, north of Hokkaido; Vladivostok is to the northwest of Sendai; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is all the way at the end of the Kuril chain and on Kamchatka peninsula and in no danger whatsoever. Russia has no need to worry. However, Japan is their neighbor and competitor for the Kuril Islands (and Japan lost Karafuto/Sakhalin and most of the Kurils to them after WWII), so they do have vested interest. I'll stop before I get all tl;dr on Russo-Japanese history. Why don't we have Russians

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Thanks, edited those Japan links in. I wish we had the Russians :(