Honshu Information Streams

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Sites Aggregating Info

• Wikipedia: 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami
• Openstreetmap.org: 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami
• Google Crisis Response: 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
• ESRI map of earthquakes with links to Flickr and YouTube images/videos
• shinsaihatsu local aggregator
• Crisis Mappers link spreadsheet
• ESIPFed - Aggregating Earth science data and applications
• sidecharlie
• CrisisWiki 2011_Sendai_Japan_Earthquake_and_Tsunami
• Open Directory Category
• Best of the Web Category
• Citizens Action Team Database for 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Official Information

Japan

• Japanese Fire and Disaster Management Agency
• Nuclear Emergency Declaration from Japanese Government (Google Translation to English)
• Map of Japan nuclear power stations
• Real-time monitoring info about Japan's nuclear facility (Japanese) Map of Japan nuclear power stations - (English)
• Earthquake Warnings
• Ministry of Defense (in Japanese)
• TEPCO - Tokyo Electric Power Co - Operator of Nuclear Plants
• Narita International Airport (Site unreliable)
• City of Sendai Japan (in Japanese - or use Google Link / Translate feature) (references transportation routes, warnings)
• Prime Minister of Japan Website (Countermeasures for 2011 Tohoku Tokyo District Earthquake updated daily as of March 13, 2011)

Other Countries

Russia

• EMERCOM of Russia - The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters

UN / International

• International Atomic Energy Agency updates IAEA Press Room
• UN-SPIDER SpaceAid: space-based information for earthquake in Japan and tsunami in Pacific Region

UK

• British Foreign Office Travel Advice Still current at: 14 March 2011
• Guardian timeline

United States

• USGS Hazards Data Distribution System (HDDS) is a collection of imagery and documents designed to assist in the response to natural and artificial disasters. HDDS provides geographic search capabilities based on latitude and longitude boundaries. HDDS contains imagery acquired in the aftermath of a disaster as well as imagery of the same region before the event.
• NOAA National Data Buoy Center - Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART)
• Tsunami Warning Center - WIDESPREAD WARNING
• USGS: Magnitude 8.8 - Near the east coast of Honshu, Japan PAGER Red Alert
• NOAA West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
  • NOAA Pacific Coast Tsunami Warning and Advisory Page
  • Tsunami travel time map
• Dynamic Tsunami Travel Time, click on the + next to the Active Hazard Model Outputs folder, and turn on the Tsunami Travel Time Map by checking the box next to the name
• California Emergency Digital Information Service EDIS.oes.ca.gov
• Pacific Tsunami Warning Center PTWC.weather.gov
• Guam Homeland Security/Office of Civil Defense GuamHS.org
• GIS mapping portal to realtime coastal observations and NOAA forcasts. NowCOAST.noaa.gov
• US Environmental Protection Agency Radiation Network map of official monitoring stations and data.

New Zealand

• New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management updates advisory to warning - but effects expected to be limited to marine areas only (not land)
  • MCDEM Website
  • Twitter
  • Google Site

Pacific

• Widespread Tsunami warning for South Pacific (Tonga)

Spain

• Spanish sources

Weather Information

Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)

• JMA/English language
• 2011 Earthquake Portal

US Naval Observatory

• Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography, Regional Chart Access
• West Pacific Tropical Cyclone Warning Areas, Satellite Image

US Air Force Weather Agency Observer

• Asia satellite MTSAT animation
• Pacific Ocean MOSAIC animation
• Southeast Asia Surface Winds, Loop

Commercial Weather Websites

• Weatherbug Japanese Weather
• Weather Underground wundermap, Japan

Live Feeds

• Al Jazeera
  • Al Jazeera Live Coverage
  • Al Jazeera Japan Live
• BBC
  • BBC News - Asia Pacific
  • BBC live blog - Middle East
• NHK
  • NHK WORLD English (TV)
  • NHK Japan Live
  • NHK live stream on Ustream
  • NHK live stream (English) on Ustream
• Hawaii News Now
• ABC News Live
• Associated Press Live
• CNN Live
• CCTV News China
• Daily Telegraph Live
• Kyodo News English
• CP24 (Canada)
• IAEA Fukushima Power plant Updates
• Reuters live blog

Local Live Feeds

• Local News (Japanese)
• Local Japanese News
• - Local Japanese News with English translation
• Justin TV - Local Japanese TV

Live Public Safety Audio

• East Hawaii County
• Kodiak, Alaska
• San Francisco, CA

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Twitter

See Honshu Twitter page.

HAM and other radio

See Honshu HAM.

Other News Sources

• Breaking news RSS
• justin tv
• WSJ RSS
  • Japanese Version
• NOAA
• CNN
• CNN Japan topic RSS
• ABS news about Philipines RSS
• BBC live coverage
• Japan Times (English language newspaper)
• Japan Today (news and discussion in English)
• Nihon Keizai Shimbun (English)
• Daily Yomiuri Online (English)
• Kyodo News (in English)
• List of US West Coast Live Stream TV Stations
• List of Tsunami Media and Resources (need to copy over?)
• YouTube #tsunami
• Youtube Citizen Tube feed
• Multi-lingual information is available from NHK Radio
• (CBS News on the ground, references road conditions to Sendai as of 3/12/2011)
• United States Department of Defense OPERATION TOMODACHI news
• USDoD Washington Headquarters Service OPERATION TOMODACHI news
• United States Forces Japan OPERATION TOMODACHI news
• United States Pacific Command OPERATION TOMODACHI news
• Commander United States 7th Fleet Navy OPERATION TOMODACHI news
• United States Air Force OPERATION TOMODACHI news
• United States Air Force, Misawa Air Base, Japan OPERATION TOMODACHI news
• United States Marine Corps 31st Expeditionary Unit (Asia-Pacific) OPERATION TOMODACHI news
• United States Marine Corps Bases Japan OPERATION TOMODACHI news

See Also

• Honshu Quake
• Japan Data Profile