JAPAN

Japan

Typhoon Roke

Will Japan be able to survive the devastating onslaught of "natural" disasters being imposed on her? Photo: NASA Earth Observatory

A powerful typhoon is due to make landfall on Japan's south-west coast, moving across the capital to the north-east and on to the areas devastated by the March tsunami....The meteorological agency described the eye of Roke as "very strong" and advised residents living in its path to exercise the "greatest possible vigilance"...By mid-morning Wednesday the typhoon was located about 25 miles (40km) off the Kii peninsula in western Japan, generating winds of up to 135 miles per hour (216km/h). It was expected to reach the Tokyo area in the afternoon and the tsunami disaster zone in the evening."

Will Japan be another Atlantis?


"A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago, in mud flats in southern Spain."

Photo: National Geographic


""This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters. "It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a professor at the University of Hartford who led an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis... Conclusions are detailed in "Finding Atlantis," a National Geographic Channel special." Finding Atlantis