[Stoat]

UPDATE

 

Fox News has some updated information on the debris field which may be of interest to readers, particularly those on the West Coast ;-)

Because it's from Fox News, I'm required to edit it heavily.  I'll post the highlights here but going to the original article will be the best thing to do.

 

25 million tons of tsunami debris floating toward US shores - Fox News

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But no one's tracking the debris, Jim Churnside, a physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency's (NOAA) Marine Debris Program, told FoxNews.com. 

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Churnside expects models of the debris path from last summer are probably accurate. 

 The debris is not expected to be radioactive. Carey Morishige, the Pacific Islands Regional Coordinator for the NOAA Marine Debris Program, told science blog Earthsky.org that radioactivity is probably not an issue, since the tsunami carried most of the debris seaward before the failure of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor.

 

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(The pic below is a computer model/projection of the expected path....not an actual indicator of the current debris field position.  More pics and a video are available at the Fox site.)

[dragnet2]

That debris field is larger than the country of Japan...In fact, it’s larger than the western United States. I know they said it’s not an actual indicator, but that’s an absurd depiction.

[dragnet2]

That debris field is larger than the country of Japan...In fact, it’s larger than the western United States. I know they said it’s not an actual indicator, but that’s an absurd depiction.