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07.06.11

Japan tsunami wreckage: Oregon ETA - 2013

I'm constantly asked both before and after beach cleanups if "anything was or is expected to be found from the Tsunami in Japan"? Folks are constantly interested whether for radioactive fear or salvage interests, when all that stuff from Japan is going to hit the coast over here. To be precise would be difficult, but it's safe to say, it's not hear yet! Millions of tons of debris that washed into the Pacific Ocean during Japan's earthquake and tsunami last March is headed to U.S. shores now. Scientists using computer models say the wreckage, covering an area roughly the size of California, which is scattered across hundreds of miles of the Pacific Ocean and moving at a rate of about 10 miles a day, is expected to reach Midway Island and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands by next spring and beaches in California, Oregon and Washington in 2013 or early 2014. Read more and watch video of the wreckage at sea.