Japan tsunami residue giant garbage to America as large as three floated in Texas
Japan March 11 big giant earthquake that triggered the tsunami would more than 200,000 building involved in the Pacific, large junk is drift toward the west coast of the United States. This batch of huge waste area of an estimated three Texas equivalent. Reports, car, trailers, ships and the whole house floating on the Pacific waters; A U.S. Marine scientists even predict the human body, still wearing shoes, providing 1 to 3 years to float to the United States.
Human providing or will drift America
According to reports, the Seattle oceanographer marius ebbers mayer said thousands of a tsunami victims, most of the remains of sea twisted limbs can separate and remains in seawater decomposition, wearing shoes feet will continue to float. Fishing boats and floating in the sea by the drifter will wind effect, may about 1 year, Washington, Oregon drifted toward the north Pacific Ocean circulation, and California will again put the rubbish to Hawaii, eventually return to Asia. Wood or furniture may be two to three years, to "finish" this "ride" process.
Marius ebbers mayer says, many tsunami of plastic debris left, not complete decomposition, may cause Marine pollution, the harm Marine life. He is worried about was born in Japan, along with the circulation to the hundreds of thousands of California swim only little turtle, life will be threatened.
U.S. warning channel will be threatened
According to reports, U.S. 7th fleet members Dennis says, have never seen such a big floating debris, he warned the rubbish might pose a threat to channel. He said: "use of passing ships would push the propeller this slice, is very difficult floated trash; some of the net with the wave of floating ships." particularly severe threat
American radiation medical association heshbon medical physics committee chairman: more points out, some arrived in the United States with trash on the west coast of the radiation, but he also stresses that junk drifting in the us, "then radiation and risk is extremely low".