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Japan’s ‘Toxic’ Monster Creeping Towards US
An enormous debris field is creeping toward the U.S. in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that shook Japan in 2011, killing nearly 16,000 people and launching 1.5 million tons of floating objects into the sea.
That most concentrated part of the junk field is easily broader than Texas and centered approximately 1,700 miles off the Pacific coast, between California and Hawaii, although the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hasn’t published more precise estimates. The agency estimates that the trash overall is scattered across an area in the ocean about three times the size of the continental United States.
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A NOAA model from Sept. 23 shows that a vast though disperse field of debris from a tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 is likely still dispersed north of the Main Hawaiian Islands and east of Midway Atoll. (NOAA)
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Read more:http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/11/01/japans-toxic-monster-creeping-towards-us/
