August 10 2014 Super typhoon Halong lashes southern Japan, red-level alert issued - Heading North East - 6.0 Earthquake Hits Japan during Typhoon Halong

NOTE: You will be hard pressed to find real Main Stream weather information on Typhoon Halong or Tropicla Storm Halong which is at the moment of this update passing directly over the Fukushima Disaster Area. That is because the ONLY thing related to the Fukushima Global Nuclear Disaster which is ACTUALLY UNDER CONTROL is the News. The News is the ONLY thing being controlled. The Nuclear reactors are out of control. The associated spent fuel pools are out of control. The accumulated radioactive coolant waters are running in to the PACIFIC  and also out of control. But they have managed to suppress and control all related news on the subject of the GLOBAL Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. 

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6.0 Earthquake Hits Japan during  Typhoon Halong.

1. 6.0 81km E of Mutsu, Japan 2014-08-09 23:43:17 UTC-04:00 41.0 km
2. 4.6 177km ESE of Chichi-shima, Japan 2014-08-09 19:02:25 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
3. 4.4 197km SW of Vostok, Russia 2014-08-09 18:37:31 UTC-04:00 422.2 km

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TYPHOON HALONG UPDATE Aug 10 2014  11:48 AM ET:

Typhoon Halong at present moment is centered directly over the FUKUSHIMA Nuclear Disaster Area in Japan

Rare emergency warning for Tropical Storm Halong in Japan
In the Western Pacific, slow-moving Tropical Storm Halong weakened to a 70 mph tropical storm Saturday, but is dumping dangerous heavy rains into Southern Japan. A rare "emergency weather warning" (tokubetsu keihō) for the Mie Prefecture was issued on Saturday by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). Hakusan in the Mie Prefecture had nearly 17 inches of rain on Saturday, breaking its all-time 24-hour rainfall record set just last year in Typhoon Man-yi. The Sukumo observation site in Kōchi prefecture set an all-time calendar-day record rainfall today of 327.5 mm (12.89 inches) with records dating back to 1943. Rainfall rates have been 1 to 2 inches pre hour across most of Kōchi Prefecture on Saturday. As of 9 pm JST Saturday, the center of Halong was 60 km (35 mi) south of Cape Ashizuri, Kōchi Prefecture; the Shimizu observation site, 5 miles northwest of that cape, clocked an 83-mph gust at 9:23pm JST (8:23am US EDT). That's the highest gust anywhere in Japan (including the smaller southern islands) so far Saturday their time. Farther east, Cape Muroto clocked a sustained wind of 27.0 m/s (60 mph) at 9:58pm JST (8:58am US EDT), the top sustained wind for all of Japan today. Source: JMA (thanks to TWC's Nick Wiltgen for these stats.) Satellite loops show that Halong is a very large system, and the rains from this massive, slow-moving storm are going to cause serious flooding problems in Japan.

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Six people were injured as as Typhoon Halong lashed southwest Japan today, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of half a million people near swollen rivers. The highest typhoon warning was hoisted earlier this afternoon. The warning means that the storm poses a threat to life and could inflict massive damage, the meteorological agency said. Strong winds left six people injured, one seriously, in Miyazaki prefecture in southern Japan. Airlines, including Japan's two major carriers Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways, cancelled about 500 flights on Saturday, affecting more than 20,000 passengers. It would have been the start of the summer "Obon" Buddhist holidays, one of the year's busiest travel periods in Japan. As of Saturday evening, the airlines had also cancelled more than 50 flights scheduled for Sunday. Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a special warning for heavy rain in Mie prefecture in central Japan, prompting two towns to order about 500,000 residents to evacuate due to a fear of flooding from swollen rivers. The agency said heavy rain in the area would continue overnight. The alert was issued for Mie prefecture, some 300 kilometres west of Tokyo, as the outer bands of the storm were already lashing the region and other areas of southwestern Japan, the agency said. "Please remain on the alert against a rise of rivers, floods as well as damage from landslides in Mie prefecture," the agency said on its website.

Yokkaichi and Suzuka, in northern Mie, issued evacuation instructions - stricter than advisories but still not compulsory - to some 512,000 residents in total, city officials and local media said. "We are strongly urging our residents to evacuate, while we are hurriedly setting up temporary shelters across the city," a Yokkaichi official said. Typhoon Halong, packing winds of up to 180 km/h, could make landfall in southwest Japan late Saturday or early Sunday, according to the agency. Television footage showed high waves triggered by the typhoon splashing over breakwaters and muddy torrents roaring down a swollen river. Storms and torrential rain earlier this week have left one dead and seven injured, public broadcaster NHK said. At least 473 flights were cancelled due to the typhoon, which came as Japan had just begun its annual "Obon" summer holiday, NHK said. Most ferry and train services on the southwest island of Shikoku were cancelled, while highways were closed at several points. Over the next 24 hours, the storm was expected to dump 70cm of rain on Shikoku, which had already been lashed by downpours from another typhoon last weekend, the national weather agency said. 

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Super typhoon Halong lashes southern Japan, red-level alert issued

RT
Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:51 CDT

                         AFP/Jiji Press

A powerful typhoon is raging through southwestern Japan, prompting the country's meteorological agency to issue the highest red-level weather alert. At least 6 people have been injured and half a million locals were urged to evacuate.

Typhoon Halong, which has already been unofficially classified as a super typhoon, has caused rains and winds of up to 198 kilometers (123 miles) per hour.

As of 3pm on Saturday, Halong was traveling north-northeast some 160 km south-southwest of Cape Ashizuri in Kochi Prefecture at 150 kph. The maximum sustained wind speed near its center was 126 kph, the Japan Times reported.

The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued the highest red-level weather alert, which means that the storm poses a threat to life and could inflict massive damage.

Strong winds have already left six people injured, one of them seriously, in Miyazaki prefecture in southern Japan.