Earthquake in Japan: insurance companies are suffering a severe impact

Following the floods in Australia, New Zealand earthquake and now the earthquake in Japan, the invoice from reinsurers looks very high for the first months of the year.

The massive earthquake followed by tsunami in Japan is the second disaster faced in a very short time, insurance companies, and beaten less than a month by the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.

On Friday, shares of European reinsurers fell into the bags: a half day, the German Munich Re and Hannover Re lost about 5% each in Frankfurt, as Swiss Re in Zurich, while French sank deeper Scor 7% in the Paris market.

A 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Friday, followed by numerous aftershocks and tsunamis, generating warnings across the Pacific, leaving hundreds dead.

"After the floods in Australia (early years), the earthquake in New Zealand (late February) and now the earthquake in Japan, the reinsurers bill looks very high for the first months of the year" according to a specialist sector requiring anonymity.

Reinsurers will be "much affected" by the catastrophe that primary insurers, because its function is precisely to cover insurers, reminded the Christian Muschick AFP, German private bank analyst Silvia Quandt.

The first global reinsurer, Germany's Munich Re, "can finally bury their performance objectives for the current year," he said.

On Thursday, Munich Re said it would not get in 2011 expected net profit of 2,400 million euros if the impact of natural disasters reveals higher than expected.

Swiss Re, the second global reinsurer, Scor and France also made it known that it was too early to give figures on the financial consequences of catastrophe.

According to a note by the brokerage JPMorgan Cazenove, the cost associated with the earthquake in Japan could be between 1,000 and 2,000 million dollars only for European reinsurers, although it is an estimate "very preliminary."

"It's a big earthquake, but the damage is obviously less important than those caused by the Kobe earthquake in 1995, because the epicenter was at sea, and close to a less populated Muschick said.
In 1995, the Kobe earthquake cost U.S. $ 3,500 million to the insurance industry and had a total cost of U.S. $ 100,000 million, according to Swiss Re caused more than 6,400 victims.

As California, Japan is "well prepared" for this type of disaster, and reinsurers are careful to limit and diversify their risks in these regions, said Muschick, which predicts a rise in reinsurance rates.

Therefore, this type of disaster means "higher income a year or two later," said JP Morgan Cazenove.

In 2010, natural disasters and were very costly to the insurance industry: about U.S. $ 37,000 million, according to Munich Re


Mangaka seiyuus 134 and reported "safe" in Japan after earthquakeList of some voice actors and Mangaka reported 'safe' after quake in Japan

1. Aguri Igarashi
2. Ai Shimizu
3. Ai Yasawa
4. Akemi Takada
5. Aki Kanada
6. Aki Toyosaki
7. Akio Watanabe
8. Akira Ishida
9. Akira Toriyama
10. Arina Tanemura
11. Asami Shimoda
12. Atushi Kousaka
13. Atsushi Ohkubo
14. Aya Hisakawa
15. Aya Hirano
16. Ayahi Takagaki
17. Ayumu Asakura
18. Bisco Hatori
19. Chako Abeno
20. Chihiro Suzuki
21. Chika Umino
22. CLAMP
23. Daisuke Kishio
24. Daisuke Namikawa
25. Daisuke Ono
26. Echiro Oda
27. Emiri Kato
28. Eri Kitamura
29. Fumiko Orisaka
30. Go Inoue
31. Gosho Aoyama
32. Haruka Tomatsu
33. Hideo Ishikawa
34. Hikari Midorikawa
35. Hinako Takanaga
36. Hiroki Yasumoto
37. Hiroshi Kamiya
38. Hiroya Oku
39. Hiroyuki Takei
40. Hozumi Gōda
41. Humikane Shimada
42. Hyouta Fujiyama
43. Jun Fukuyama
44. Junichi Suwabe
45. Junko Mizuno
46. Kana Ueda
47. Kanetake Ebikawa
48. Kanon Wakeshima
49. Katsuyuki Konishi
50. Kazue Kato
51. Kazuhiko Inoue
52. Kazuya Minekura
53. KENN
54. Ken Akamatsu
55. Kenishi Suzumura
56. Kenji Kamiyama
57. Kenta Miyake
58. Kia Asamiya
59. Kikuko Inoue
60. Kishô Taniyama
61. Kiyohiko Azuma
62. Koge Donbo
63. Kouichi Yamadera
64. Kouta Hirano
65. Kurea Aida
66. Lily Hoshino
67. Madhouse Studios
68. Mami Kosuge
69. Mamoru Hosoda
70. Mamoru Miyano
71. Masashi Kishimoto
72. Masaya Onosaka
73. Masakazu Morita
74. Marina Inoue
75. Mayu Shinjo
76. Mayumi Aida
77. Megumi Hayashibara
78. Megumi Nakajima
79. Megumi Ogata
80. Mel Kishida
81. Mick Takeuchi
82. Minako Kotobuki
83. Minori Chihara
84. Mitsuki Saiga
85. Miyu Irino
86. Nao Yazawa
87. Natsuki Takaya
88. Natsume Ono
89. Nobuhiko Okamoto
90. Noriaki Sugiyama
91. Urobuchi Gen
92. Rei Hiroe
93. Reno Amagi
94. Rica Fukami
95. Rica Matsumoto
96. Rie Tanaka
97. Romi Park (Paku)
98. Ryohgo Narita
99. Ryotaro Okiayu
100. Ryuji Gotsubo
101. Shoutaro Morikubo
102. Tadashi Agi
103. Taiten Kusunoki
104. Takagi Motoki
105. Takahiro Fujimoto
106. Takahiro Mizushima
107. Takahiro Sakurai
108. Takeharu Ishimoto
109. Takehito Koyasu
110. Temari Matsumoto
111. Tite Kubo
112. Tokokazu Sugimura
113. Tomokasu Seki
114. Tomokazu Sugita
115. Tsubasa Yonaga
116. Toshiyuki Morikawa
117. Touko Akiba
118. Ume Aoki
119. Usamaru Furuya
120. Yana Toboso
121. Yasuhiro Nightow
122. Yoko Hisaka
123. Yoko Kanno
124. Yoshitoshi ABe
125. Yui Horie
126. Yukako Kabe
127. Yukari Higa
128. Yukari Tamura
129. Yuki Kaida
130. Yuki Kamatani
131. Yun Kouga
132. Yuuichi Nakamura
133. Yuu Asakawa
134. Yuuki Kaji

Explosion and radiation leak in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami

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The earth is still shaking

Japan's worst earthquake and the tsunami

nuclear explosion and leakage, killed 703​​, a deceased

U.S. alarm and destruction in the Pacific.

The largest earthquake in Japan's history and fifth in the world, ofmagnitude 8.8 on the Richter scale or 8.9 on the basis of the United States, which occurred on March 11, 2011, northwesternJapan and caused a tsunami with waves up to ten meters,destroyed everything in the front, leaving a projected balance sheet, according to Japanese police, the dead 703 ​​and causeda stir worldwide.

But also caused on the morning of March 12th, a loud explosionnear the No. 1 reactor at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima,240 kilometers from Tokyo, where it increased the level ofradioactivity. In the area, according to witnesses, had columns ofdense white smoke, and four workers were injured, according toAFP.

This occurs after the nuclear alert was declared after radiation leaks, the Japanese government said they were "minimum" of two nuclear plants in Fukushima. They were the problems in fivereactors, forcing authorities to order the evacuation of some46,000 people.

Although initially tried to downplay the problem, is now recognizedthat the problems are serious and Industrial Safety Agency ofJapan Nuclear, said "the merger could be taking place in theirhearts" in the I Fukushima reactor.

In addition, the tsunami that struck the countries bordering thePacific Ocean, killing at least one dead and three injured inCalifornia, severe damage to San Francisco (United States) andother damage in Peru, weakened after reaching Mexico,Ecuador, Chile, the Hawaiian Islands and the Kuril Islands(Russia), among others.

But it is expected that Japan, in cleaning and debris removal affected areas, the death toll is higher because many are losing ships and trains, in which hundreds of passengers traveling.Therefore, speak Nipponese media that the victims will be about 1,200 people in nine affected provinces.

In the same vein, the spokesman said the minister, Yukio Edan, that the emergency committee meeting held in Tokyo, said the victims will be more than 1,000 people after the earthquake, the biggest "since the Meiji era, in the century XIX, as the recorded data. radiation leaks that the prime minister said to be "minimal" But the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, in addition to the irreparable loss of human lives and serious damage also caused on the morning of March 12, a day after the earthquake, a strong explosion near the No. 1 reactor, nuclear plant in Fukushima, where the level of radioactivity has grown considerably.

This explosion, face trestigos, columns of smoke density of great height, as reported by AFP, injuring four workers.

All this happened after the occurrence of radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear plant, according to the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan found radioactive cesium in the vicinity.

Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, who went to Fukushima nuclear power plant to inspect nuclear plant, said that radiation had been released from the plant was minimal.

However, measurements indicate that the level rose to a record level, according to the Japan Industrial Safety Agency, which amounted to 1,000 times higher than normal in a control room of one of the reactors. However, the government initially said the radiation released was too small and Nuclear Safety Agency says that did not involve a risk to the health of residents.

But as the day progresses, the news coming more and more alarming, according to the Agency for Nuclear and Industrial Safety in Japan, has come to ensure that "could be the ongoing fusion in their cores" on a nuclear reactor that Fukushima, also confirmed to Kyodo.

46,000 people evacuated in ten kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant

To avoid problems, the Japanese authorities extended the evacuation area from 3 to 10 km around the Fukushima nuclear power and ordered the evacuation of more than 46,000 people living nearby.

In addition to reducing the risk that may involve these nuclear power stations, experts opened in a controlled valve of bells that house the reactors, to try to cool. To this end, the release of steam, to relieve pressure inside.

The experts decided to make this move with the advice of the Nuclear Safety Agency of Japan, which had been a change in radiation levels, which increased in level 1 of Fukushima. And, according to their measurements, the main entrance radioactivity exceeded eight times its usual level.

Although he was hopeful that this will solve the problem, this attempt has proved unsuccessful because as cool now.

Moreover, in another nearby plant, the number two technicians also had problems when it comes to cool three of its four nuclear reactors, as declared by the operator of these facilities, Tokyo Electric Power Corporation.

The redemption will be long and arduous, the extent of affected areas after the disaster, the worst earthquake in Japan in 140 years, now expects the country of Japan a long task of rescuing the victims, assistance to survivors and work cleaning, to be followed by a painful reconstruction.

To carry out the Government of Japan has provided 50,000 military made rescue efforts, a task that will be facilitated by 190 aircraft and 25 ships.

Besides the United States has offered to help with transportation, so bring your boat, in which the troops will move Self-Defense Forces of Japan's army, to the affected areas.

Very serious damage to infrastructure and housing addition to the irreparable loss of life, Japan will face a long task of reconstruction. And so, after the earthquake and tsunami, especially after rl have been completely destroyed, according to the local agency Kyodo, at least 3,400 buildings and 200 have been victims of the flames after numerous fires.

Among the worst affected areas highlights the eastern province of Japan, Iwate, where entire villages disappeared after hitting the streets and houses and the tsunami, with waves of ten feet, dragged buildings, factories, offices, farms, boats, and a longList of buildings. Another city that suffered the worst part was terribly Sendai, a city of more than one million inhabitants, the capital of the province of Miyagi, where they drowned between 200 and 300 people after the tsunami. 

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Sunrise in Japan, damage control and I remember the recent past Friday 11/03/2011,

BUENOS AIRES (Urgente24). In May 1960 saw the largest earthquake in history, with its epicenter off southern Chile and over 9 Richter, generated waves of up to 25 meters that swept parts of the Chilean coast, coming to Hawaii, where it caused 61 deaths. The death toll from the earthquake and subsequent tsunami is estimated at between 490 and 2290.

In 1964 an earthquake of about 9 º earthquake struck Alaska, British Columbia and the northwest coast of California, causing 121 deaths. 


The resultant tsunami waves six meters killed 11 people in Crescent City (California) 16 August 1976 an earthquake measuring 7.9 Richter struck first in the island of Mindanao (Philippines) devastated more than 700 kilometers of coastline and causing A total of 8,000 dead.

In December 1979 an earthquake measuring 7.9 Richter first arrived on the Pacific coast, off Colombia and Ecuador. The resulting tsunami destroyed at least six fishing villages, killing at least 360 killed in the Colombian province of Nariño and the city of Tumaco, and others. 


Until May 1986 there was another earthquake, then 104 people died in the west coast of Japan after the tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the area. In July 1993, at least 202 people died on the island of Japan Okhushiri because the tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Hokkaido (Japan).

Five years later, about 2,200 killed by a tsunami in Papua New Guinea, caused by an earthquake of 7.1 º Richter, who destroyed the villages of Arop and Warapu. The largest tsunami in history was that the December 26, 2004. After an earthquake of 8.9 Richter ° from the epicenter off Indonesia's Sumatra island, the impact killed 226,408 people in 12 Indian Ocean countries.

The most affected countries were Indonesia (126,915 dead and 37,063 missing), Sri Lanka (more than 31,000 people), India (over 11,000), Thailand: 5,395 dead (2,248 of them foreigners from 37 countries, including two Spanish) and 2,940 missing. In Somalia there were 300 dead and at least 80 in the Maldives.

Subsequently, in March 2006 a tsunami killed three people and destroyed a small village on the Indonesian island of Buru. July 17, 2006, another tsunami struck the southwest of the Indonesian island of Java killed at least 596 dead, 70 missing and 110,000 displaced.

The giant wave caused by an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 degrees, which was centered about 200 miles off the coast of Java and 48.6 kilometers deep and was followed by several aftershocks.
In April 2007, 52 people were killed by a tsunami in the Solomon Islands, caused by two earthquakes, one of 8.11 followed by a 7.61 Richter. In the Western and Choiseul provinces had more than 5,409 displaced and 916 buildings destroyed.

29/09/2009 In a tsunami caused dozens of deaths in Samoa after an earthquake measuring 7.9 Richter in the Pacific archipelago º.

11/03/2011 On Friday, a devastating earthquake of 8.9 magnitude on the Richter scale, the largest magnitude lived in Japan since records have shaken the country, causing hundreds of deaths and disappearances.






The Japanese government has warned of a series of "very high level of casualties", which could exceed one, but for now the latest figures provided by police death toll at 184. The official figure of 530 is also missing and police also said that at least 722 people were injured.

However, it is feared that the death toll could reach thousands of meeting is dawning, told Kyodo news agency quoted Japan's Defense Ministry, the large number of people still missing. 


The earthquake has left without electricity to millions of people around the country, which has declared a state of emergency nuclear energy, due to problems in a plant. Both the U.S. and EU countries have offered to Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, support for the rescue and reconstruction.

The disaster is due in large part to the strong earthquake, whose epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles offshore, has unleashed a tsunami with waves up to 10 meters have penetrated 5 km inland, destroyed what they have found its way into the northeastern provinces. According to the Ministry of Defense, only in Fukushima prefecture is about 1,800 houses destroyed.

And in neighboring Miyagi Prefecture, one of the hardest hit areas, police have assured that there are between 200 and 300 bodies on a beach in the city of Sendai (such as the balance of the police to the victims would be further from the truth .) 


The waves have washed inland vessels and fears of trains on the coast, four of whom nothing is known to have been swallowed by the sea.

At least one passenger was a convoy carrying an undetermined number of people when it lost its track. Transport have been affected across the country, leaving many people without the possibility of returning to their homes, and flights at the airport in Narita, the chief of Tokyo, have been disrupted for hours.


In the early hours of the day in the country, Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, has already left on a helicopter to fly over the affected areas from the air and control of the situation in which the country finds itself.

Japan faces on Saturday 14/03 to the devastation caused in its northeast coast, with the fire and partly flooded cities increased after the great earthquake on Friday, sparking a massive tsunami might have caused at least 1,000 dead.


Television footage showed an impressive huge wall of water up to 10 feet high, carrying vehicles, boats and buildings, even at high speed crashed in farmland near the coastal city of Sendai, home to one million people and is about 300 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. 


"This could be a humanitarian aid operation of epic proportions," said Shela Smith experts in Japan, the U.S. Council of Foreign Affairs.

In one of the worst affected areas, you can hear people buried under the debris calling for "help" and "when will we be rescued," according to Kyodo news agency.

In Kesennuma, with a population of 74,000 people, had many fires and about a third of the city was submerged, according to the Jiji news agency, adding that the Sendai Airport, home to one million people, is on fire.

Politicians called for an emergency budget to help with rescue efforts after Kan to ask them to "save the country" according to Kyodo news agency. Japan's economic power and most heavily indebted countries, which means that any additional financing will be closely watched by the markets. Source: Urgente24.com


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Japanese ambassador to Chile presents book to coincide with earthquake tsunami

The Japanese Ambassador to Chile, Wataru Hayashi, today unveiled a book that warns of the danger posed by tsunamis to the civilian population, the same day that his country was an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 on the scale of the tsunami Richtery.

It was envisaged that the act was committed in Talcahuano,unaciudad port located along the Pacific Ocean, south ofSantiago 500kilómetros, one of the most afectadospor theearthquake and tsunami on 27 February 2010 as a result 524dead Chile.



However, the educational publication, entitled "Danger in atsunami, " has finally presented in the neighboring city of Concepcion, the most affected by the earthquake do join, whichreached 8.8 degrees, the same magnitude occurredterremotoregistrado Friday on the east coast of Japan.

The launch of the book, a guide for school children paraaprenderwhat to do in case of tsunami, the ambassador expressed hisgratitude for the solidarity of Chileans are transmitted in a phone call by President Sebastián Piñera.

"I called several authorities to express the condolences andsympathy to the Japanese people (...) I have great concern about the situation in Japan and I would expresarmi gratitude for thewords and condolences expressed Porel president and his government and the feeling of conJapón solidarity, "he toldprensa.por: AP

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