Aerial view of the nuclear plant of Tokyo Electric Power Fukushima Dai-Ichi in the Prefecture of Fukushima at the Japan, March 20, 2011. Source: Air Photo Service via Bloomberg 
April 11 (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg Zeb Eckert Tokyo reports the most recent earthquake in the Japan. An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 has struck the region of the country Tohoku, southwest of Iwaki, said the United States Geological Survey. The tremor shook buildings in downtown Tokyo. Eckert speaks with Maryam Nemazee for Bloomberg Television "pulse." (Report of the Eckert came before the USGS revised the size of the earthquake of 7.1 to 6.6) Source: Bloomberg)The Japan increased the rating of the gravity of the nuclear crisis the most high, corresponding to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, such as prompt radiation increased the Government to expand the area evacuation and aftershocks rocked the country.
Nuclear and industrial safety of the Japan Agency raised the score to 7, a spokesman said at a press conference in Tokyo today. The accident at the station of Fukushima Dai-Ichi was already rated 5 to world-wide, the same as the collapse of reactor partial 1979-Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
The nuclear power plant sinistrée, 220 kilometres (135 km) North of Tokyo, is radiation leak worst civil nuclear disaster in the Japan after a magnitude-9 quake and tsunami March 11. Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant has resisted hundreds of aftershocks, and the Government expands the surrounding area of evacuation yesterday.
The Government "finally begins to wake up to the reality of the scale of the disaster," said Philip White, Liaison Officer International Information Center of the nuclear citizens, a group based in Tokyo, opposed to atomic energy. "Its belated move to evacuate people from a wider area the nuclear plant, in the same way, is a recognition that the impact on public health is potentially much greater that it was first recognized."
The International nuclear and radiological event scale rate nuclear accidents in terms of their effects on health and the environment, according to the international agency of Atomic Energy, which has helped put in place the system. Each of its represents seven steps a ten times more large increase in the severity of the incident or accident, according to the Backgrounder INES.
Levels 1 to 3 are classified as incidents and those of 4 to 7 are defined as accidents. Average level 7 there have been a "major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring the implementation of countermeasures planned and prolonged", says the information sheet.
Earthquake of 11 March, the highest on record and the tsunami was approximately 27 500 dead or missing, according to the Police Office National du Japan of the nation. The Government estimated damage to 25 billion yen ($295 billion). TEPCO may face the claims by as much as 11 billion yen, according to an estimate.
An earthquake of magnitude-6. 2 struck off the coast of Chiba Prefecture is Tokyo, at 8 h 08, local time today, swaying buildings in the capital, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This followed a magnitude 6.6 temblor yesterday and a replica of magnitude 7.1 April 7.
Is there no damage at the Fukushima plant after the latest earthquake, spokesman for the company Takashi Kurita said. There is no power outages at the station, Tepco, as is called the utility, said flash on its Web site.
TEPCO spent 7.8% at 539 yen at 11 a.m. in Tokyo. The stock has fallen 75 percent since March 10, a day before the start of the crisis.
Earthquake today briefly closes the airstrips at International of Narita Airport, interrupted ball and the metro train services in Tokyo.
The two runways at Narita reopened after the checks have been carried out after the last earthquake, Masaru Fujisaki, a spokesman for Narita International Airport Corp., said by telephone. Services of the East bullet train Japan Railway Co. and all lines operated by Tokyo Metro Co. Metro resumed, according to the spokesman for businesses.
A fire sampling build near reactor No. 4 at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi station extinguished this morning, after the fire was discovered at 6 h 38, spokesman capture Tamaki said at a press conference today. The fire was not related to the earthquake this morning, he said.
TEPCO is using emergency equipment to cool the reactors damaged in relief after that generating atomic station were eliminated by the tsunami.
The utility attempts to remove the highly contaminated water which takes efforts to obtain work cooling pumps and prevent other explosions after the explosions damaged reactor containment vessels, releasing radiation into the air and sea, and the alteration of food. Earthquake of yesterday has halted the pumping of water contaminated from the No. 2 reactor, said Tepco.
Approximately 60 000 tonnes of contamination of water is located in the basements of the buildings of the turbine and the trenches around the No. 1, 2 and 3 of the reactors, the company said last week.
"If it finds a solution long term for the large quantities of water highly radioactive reactors, the scale of the disaster may end up exceeding Chernobyl," White, of the Information Centre of the nuclear citizens, said by phone today.
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To contact the editor responsible for this story: Amit Prakash to aprakash1@bloomberg.net
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