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alp227

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Thu Mar 28, 2013, 01:19 AM Mar 2013

Fukushima town revealed in Google Street View two years after tsunami

Source: The Guardian

Two years after Fukushima's triple nuclear meltdown forced tens of thousands of residents to flee, it is possible to take a virtual journey deep into the exclusion zone to one of the towns they left behind.

Google Street View has published striking images of the devastation visited on Namie by the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown: abandoned homes, shops and restaurants, fields blanketed in grass and weeds.

Google's camera-equipped vehicles began filming in Namie this month at the invitation of its mayor, Tamotsu Baba, whose sadness at his town's fate is matched by fears that the rest of the world is forgetting about Fukushima.

For residents from towns and villages near the crippled power plant, the crisis is far from over. About 160,000 who fled the 12-mile evacuation zone, including 21,000 from Namie, are still living in temporary housing.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/fukushima-google-street-view-meltdown-tsunami

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Fukushima town revealed in Google Street View two years after tsunami (Original Post) alp227 Mar 2013 OP
It is difficult to grasp the scale of this zeemike Mar 2013 #1
The imagery is chilling slackmaster Mar 2013 #2

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
1. It is difficult to grasp the scale of this
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:34 AM
Mar 2013

Until you spend a little time looking around with Google map street view.
It is shocking to see total abandonment on such a scale.
And in a country that can't afford to loose any land.

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