Super typhoon hits Okinawa

Super typhoon Vongfeng

Captain Paul Watson

Kamikaze - The Winds of Change

Vongfong the largest typhoon and possibly an unprecedented Category Six storm is about to strike Japan just days after Typhoon Fhanfone struck Wayayama Province. This time the Typoon is heading straight towards Fukushima and the storm itself is larger than the state of Texas.

Earthquakes, a Tsunami. The worst nuclear disaster in the history of the world, a lethal volcanic eruption and now Climate Change is about to inflict yet another typhoon assault on Japan.

This approaching storm with be the strongest Typhoon to strike Japan in it's entire meteorological history

And yet the Prime Minsters of Canada and Australia continue to deny climate change and the Prime Minister of Japan and his government do not seem to learn any lessons regarding the threat of nuclear reactors on fault zones and in close proximity to the sea.

We have not heard much about the on-going Fukushima disaster but it looks like we are about to hear much more.

The Japanese people seem to be bearing the brunt of Climate Change more than most. Meanwhile the priorities of the Japanese government are focused more on killing more whales and dolphins and continuing to diminish fish populations around the world.

Japan Times, Oct. 9, 2014: A supertyphoon [is] on course to hit Japan over the weekend… meteorologists said Wednesday. The monstrous storm…“strength is very much similar to Haiyan,”…said a meteorologist at the Meteorological Agency… Vongfong was registering gusts of the same strength… Its present course will see it smash into Japan some time over the weekend, just days after another typhoon…

Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2014: Imagery from satellite (and astronauts) illustrates what a powerful storm Super Typhoon Vongfong became this week… with gale-force winds covering around 340,000 square miles — about 70,000 square miles larger than the state of Texas… Super Typhoon Vongfong’s eye was estimated to be around 50 miles wide.

Astronaut Reid Wiseman, Oct. 9, 2014: SuperTyphoon Vongfang – I’ve seen many from here, but none like this.

Voice of America, Oct. 9, 2014: The most powerful storm on the planet so far this year… is forecast to strike mainland Japan… Air Force weather flight chief Master Sergeant Tonya Trythall [said the] current location is one of the better places to sustain a tropical cyclone… “But as it starts turning… water start cooling off slightly [and there's] upper level winds… The storm itself is going to be stronger so it’s not going to tear it apart easily.”

NBC News, Oct. 9, 2014: “It’s safe to say Vongfong is the strongest storm on earth since Haiyan last year,” said [Weather Channel's] Michael Lowry… Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center said Thursday morning… ocean waves were already as high as 50 feet.

CNN, Oct. 8, 2014: At this point winds are at 285 kph, roughly 180 mph. By the way, that would be way above Category 5, if there was anything above Category 5, this could be a hypothetical Cat 6… Cloud field would stretch across the entire US, from Washington State to Washington DC… Among the strongest storms we’ve ever seen

6.3 quake off northern Japanese coast as Typhoon Vongfong hits Okinawa

RT,

11 October, 2014

A 6.3 earthquake has been registered early Saturday off Japan’s northern coast by the US Geological Survey. The quake comes as the world’s biggest super-typhoon this year, Vongfong, is striking the south of the country.

The tremor occurred at 02:36 GMT, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. There have been no reports of damage, casualties or a tsunami alert.

The epicenter of the quake was located 154 kilometers away from the southeastern city of Hachinohe, in Japan’s southeast Aomori Prefecture, at a depth of 13 kilometers.

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The epicenter of the latest earthquake is situated relatively far away, about 400 kilometers, from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was severely damaged by an earthquake and a tsunami in March 2011.

Officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, reported a week ago that the tsunami projectile height at Fukushima NPP has been raised and that now it would take a 26-meter wave to damage the facility and cause radioactive leakage.

Last time the city of Hachinohe was struck with a quake was in 2011, when a 5.2 tremor struck off the eastern coast of Japan’s Honshu Island on September 18. The epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 24.1 kilometers and in about the same place, 147 kilometers east of the city of Hachinohe.

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Overturned cars and debris are seen at a port area hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Hachinohe, Aomori prefecture March 13, 2011. (Reuters / Aly Song)

In the meantime super-typhoon Vongfong, the world’s biggest storm this year, has reached Japan’s southern Okinawa prefecture, causing a blackout in more than 17,000 households.

It is expected to head further to the north towards the Honshu Island. On Tuesday it could reach the capital, Tokyo, bringing with it pouring rain and gusts of wind exceeding 230 kilometers an hour, creating waves up to 15 meters high.

Typhoon Vongfong is seen in the Pacific Ocean as it approaches Japan's main islands on its northward journey, in this Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (Reuters / NASA / Handout via Reuters)

Another powerful typhoon, Phanfone, which struck Japan on Oct. 5, and a day later left six people dead and four missing. The storm left thousands of households without power, the cancelation of more than 600 flights and the planned evacuation of 1.9 million people in affected areas