9.0 Earthquake Hits Japan! Tsunami Triggered!

ya i know i want to become a Geologist some day.

[Oscar]

It's official, it has reached Chernobyl status!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/rep ... =rss_world

They are rating it at a 7 which indeed matches Chernobyl but the actual leak is less then about 10% of that 1986 meltdown. I see this as a precautionary measure to keep people safe since they no upgraded the evacuation area.

Yea lets remember Chernobyl exploded. The radiation didnt just "leak" it was thrown in a wide direction out of the gaping hole in chernobyl's building.

Well,dont forget Real, four of the 6 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant exploded to. I think this leak is coming from reactor 3 which had one of the more sever explosions.

Now, I cant say that this is as bad as the Chernobyl issue since I wasnt born yet. If someone could say weather that explosion was worse or not or how bad it was, then we might be able to get an idea of this problem in Japan.