{"id":1504,"date":"2011-03-19T10:33:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2011-03-19T10:33:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T18:33:29","slug":"disaster-rating-raised-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/disaster-rating-raised-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Rating Raised in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #333233} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #333233; min-height: 12.0px} --><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan-earthquake-2011-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1505\" title=\"japan-earthquake\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan-earthquake-2011-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan-earthquake-2011-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan-earthquake-2011-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan-earthquake-2011-1-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japan-earthquake-2011-1-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Officials in Japan raised the severity level rating at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant Saturday, as crews worked desperately to restore power in an effort to cool crippled reactors.<\/p>\n<p>The disaster has been moved from a level 4 to a level 5 on the 7-level INES scale, but some experts believe the situation is more serious. The accident at Pennsylvania\u2019s Three Mile Island was also rated at level 5, while Chernobyl rated 7. \u00a0Water is being poured onto the most critically damaged reactor to stave off a meltdown. If that action fails, plant operators may be forced to bury the site with concrete and sand.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens have been advised to evacuate a 12-mile zone around the facility. Those who choose not to leave are being told to stay indoors. Nearly a half-million people remain in rescue shelters in areas ravaged by last week\u2019s earthquake-tsunami. Supplies of food and water are running low and rolling blackouts continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Japan raised the severity level rating at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant Saturday, as crews worked desperately to restore power in an effort to cool crippled reactors. The disaster has been moved from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20,18],"tags":[831,828,829,830],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-health","category-travel","tag-earthquake","tag-japan","tag-nuclear","tag-severity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}