Japan starts grim relief mission with cities flooded, thousands missing

Tokyo - rescue teams searched for by Matchstick debris Saturday for thousands of people missing in the flooded areas in northeastern of Japan, one of the most complex relief efforts in history from.

The day after the 8.9 earthquake and massive tsunami, all cities were unreachable, and some were feared, wiped off the map. The most estimates put the death toll to 1,700, but police in Miyagi - one of the strongest affected Gebiete-, quoted intelligence services that they expect the number more than 10,000 in this region alone.

About 200,000 people living in shelters. A strip of the main island of Honshū has almost no electricity to communicate with scarce resources. Many places have no heat. Survivors to a primary school in the ravaged coastal city Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."

An explosion at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns about possible radiation leakage evacuations prompted within a 12, 5-mile radius. More than 160 people in nearby Fukushima nuclear power plants have exposed to radiation.

In other areas north of Tokyo, the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake on Friday said witness the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up whole neighborhoods. Attempts, stranded, captured or on the supply have been reach with short by damage to roads and railway lines makes it difficult.

About 9,500 employees in Minamisanriku - a city located in Miyagi 17,000 - remain unclear, the Kyodo News Agency reported, citing local officials. Telephone lines are dead in schools. Footage taken from helicopters allows a before-after comparison: where it once was a fishing and tourist village, it is now a Lake, with only some buildings of the dark black encounter.

"Also the medical relief is a long-term battle," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, a Japanese Red Cross disaster relief officials. "This earthquake is much larger than the earthquake of Kobe [1995]." And Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and it actually still not recovered fully now. "This earthquake recovery will take a long, long time."

Attempts to damage map out 50,000 troops to the disaster zone began only as Japan shipped. The coastal city of Rikuzentakata, in the Prefecture Iwate, was full of water, according to local authorities flooded. A TV reporter who arrived Iwaki in Fukushima, Prefecture said the city had gone.

A derailed train in Miyagi Prefecture, closest to the quake Epicenter, was waylaid seen against the side of a House. There were no reports on the whereabouts of passengers.

Streets pretzeled and fuel in high demand along the undamaged, to the North depends on the Government ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan is 195 aircraft and send 25 ships to the disaster area, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search- and -rescue missions.

Japanese power companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with sources in reduced offer.

On Saturday, Japan's northeastern coast, from above had regarded the appearance of a dark scar. The most violent wave a wall of water upwards of 20 meters in direction of the coast line, and a few kilometres inland sent dissemination. Prime Minister Naoto Kan respondents at 6 pm local time range by helicopter. Those on the ground told the cries from trapped survivors, houses turned to splinters and overwhelmed hospitals and shelters.

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Thousands of customer names and email addresses stolen

If you have now heard, the computer security of the Texas-based e-Mail marketing company, Epsilon, hacker injured and stolen has thousands of customer names and/or e-Mail addresses. Epsilon sends more than 40 billion e-Mails per year approximately 2,500 companies around the world. Chances are, you customer of one of these 2,500 companies and it is possible that your e-Mail or name in the hands of hackers has fallen. But what are the companies?

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I spoke with media representatives Jessican Simon of Epsilon and asked whether the company had an updated list of the undertakings concerned. Simon explained that the hack was examined at the moment and they were not providing this information. The own press notice of the event-which is pretty thin--says "The affected clients are about 2 percent of the total clients and a subset of the customers for the Epsilon provides e-Mail services." Simon insured me also, that only names and/or emails were no other data such as credit card numbers or other financially sensitive information captured,.

But again, how do you know if should worry you?

If your e-Mail address into the wrong hands fell, it may mean that you will start more spam.

The Christian Science Monitor, associated press, AFP and UPI, to name a few, reports that companies including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and capital one, best buy, Kroger, TiVo, RitzCarlton rewards, Walgreen Co., Walt Disney Co., Barclays Bank, U.S. Bancorp, Ethan AllenHome shopping network, Target, Hilton and Marriott are affected. But the list could be much longer.

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As careful Internet user should you now know that you should never click on links in e-Mails from well-known companies or banks. In other words, when you say an e-Mail from your bank with, that some information-must update or maybe it, that will say their security system was exposed and they need you click on a link and change your password-do not. Open a new tab in your browser, visit the homepage of the undertaking concerned and change the settings are. This advice is my credit card company:

Customers are borne in mind, ignore E-mail for confidential account or log in information questions and concerns that familiar-looking hyperlinks in an e-Mail to a fraudulent Web site to redirect. If you an E-mail that claims received, is from us but you are not sure, or you think that it is suspicious, you click on one of the links. Simply send us at abuse@capitalone.com then delete it. More information on fight against fraud is available at www.capitalone.com/fraud/prevention/phishing.php.

Here is a little more information from ComputerWorld to avoid a phishing scam.

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Japan starts grim relief mission with cities flooded, thousands missing

Tokyo - rescue teams searched for by Matchstick debris Saturday for thousands of people missing in the flooded areas in northeastern of Japan, one of the most complex relief efforts in history from.

The day after the 8.9 earthquake and massive tsunami, all cities were unreachable, and some were feared, wiped off the map. The most estimates put the death toll to 1,700, but police in Miyagi - one of the strongest affected Gebiete-, quoted intelligence services that they expect the number more than 10,000 in this region alone.

About 200,000 people living in shelters. A strip of the main island of Honshū has almost no electricity to communicate with scarce resources. Many places have no heat. Survivors to a primary school in the ravaged coastal city Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."

An explosion at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns about possible radiation leakage evacuations prompted within a 12, 5-mile radius. More than 160 people in nearby Fukushima nuclear power plants have exposed to radiation.

In other areas north of Tokyo, the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake on Friday said witness the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up whole neighborhoods. Attempts, stranded, captured or on the supply have been reach with short by damage to roads and railway lines makes it difficult.

About 9,500 employees in Minamisanriku - a city located in Miyagi 17,000 - remain unclear, the Kyodo News Agency reported, citing local officials. Telephone lines are dead in schools. Footage taken from helicopters allows a before-after comparison: where it once was a fishing and tourist village, it is now a Lake, with only some buildings of the dark black encounter.

"Also the medical relief is a long-term battle," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, a Japanese Red Cross disaster relief officials. "This earthquake is much larger than the earthquake of Kobe [1995]." And Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and it actually still not recovered fully now. "This earthquake recovery will take a long, long time."

Attempts to damage map out 50,000 troops to the disaster zone began only as Japan shipped. The coastal city of Rikuzentakata, in the Prefecture Iwate, was full of water, according to local authorities flooded. A TV reporter who arrived Iwaki in Fukushima, Prefecture said the city had gone.

A derailed train in Miyagi Prefecture, closest to the quake Epicenter, was waylaid seen against the side of a House. There were no reports on the whereabouts of passengers.

Streets pretzeled and fuel in high demand along the undamaged, to the North depends on the Government ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan is 195 aircraft and send 25 ships to the disaster area, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search- and -rescue missions.

Japanese power companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with sources in reduced offer.

On Saturday, Japan's northeastern coast, from above had regarded the appearance of a dark scar. The most violent wave a wall of water upwards of 20 meters in direction of the coast line, and a few kilometres inland sent dissemination. Prime Minister Naoto Kan respondents at 6 pm local time range by helicopter. Those on the ground told the cries from trapped survivors, houses turned to splinters and overwhelmed hospitals and shelters.

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Japan starts grim relief mission with cities flooded, thousands missing

Tokyo - rescue teams searched for by Matchstick debris Saturday for thousands of people missing in the flooded areas in northeastern of Japan, one of the most complex relief efforts in history from.

The day after the 8.9 earthquake and massive tsunami, all cities were unreachable, and some were feared, wiped off the map. The most estimates put the death toll to 1,700, but police in Miyagi - one of the strongest affected Gebiete-, quoted intelligence services that they expect the number more than 10,000 in this region alone.

About 200,000 people living in shelters. A strip of the main island of Honshū has almost no electricity to communicate with scarce resources. Many places have no heat. Survivors to a primary school in the ravaged coastal city Minamisanriku used chalk to write their message on a dirt playground: "SOS."

An explosion at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and concerns about possible radiation leakage evacuations prompted within a 12, 5-mile radius. More than 160 people in nearby Fukushima nuclear power plants have exposed to radiation.

In other areas north of Tokyo, the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake on Friday said witness the massive wave had swallowed and chewed up whole neighborhoods. Attempts, stranded, captured or on the supply have been reach with short by damage to roads and railway lines makes it difficult.

About 9,500 employees in Minamisanriku - a city located in Miyagi 17,000 - remain unclear, the Kyodo News Agency reported, citing local officials. Telephone lines are dead in schools. Footage taken from helicopters allows a before-after comparison: where it once was a fishing and tourist village, it is now a Lake, with only some buildings of the dark black encounter.

"Also the medical relief is a long-term battle," said Toshikazu Yamamoto, a Japanese Red Cross disaster relief officials. "This earthquake is much larger than the earthquake of Kobe [1995]." And Kobe took 10, 15 years to recover, and it actually still not recovered fully now. "This earthquake recovery will take a long, long time."

Attempts to damage map out 50,000 troops to the disaster zone began only as Japan shipped. The coastal city of Rikuzentakata, in the Prefecture Iwate, was full of water, according to local authorities flooded. A TV reporter who arrived Iwaki in Fukushima, Prefecture said the city had gone.

A derailed train in Miyagi Prefecture, closest to the quake Epicenter, was waylaid seen against the side of a House. There were no reports on the whereabouts of passengers.

Streets pretzeled and fuel in high demand along the undamaged, to the North depends on the Government ships and aircraft for the rescue work. Japan is 195 aircraft and send 25 ships to the disaster area, according to Kyodo. U.S. ships will join them for search- and -rescue missions.

Japanese power companies warned of serious failures in the coming days, with sources in reduced offer.

On Saturday, Japan's northeastern coast, from above had regarded the appearance of a dark scar. The most violent wave a wall of water upwards of 20 meters in direction of the coast line, and a few kilometres inland sent dissemination. Prime Minister Naoto Kan respondents at 6 pm local time range by helicopter. Those on the ground told the cries from trapped survivors, houses turned to splinters and overwhelmed hospitals and shelters.

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