Oil tanker explosion in Japan
An explosion has occurred on a tanker off Japan’s coast, officials say.
The 998-tonne Shoko Maru had already unloaded its oil cargo at a port in Hyogo prefecture and was not laden when the incident happened.
The captain of the tanker was missing, the Japanese coast guard said.
Seven other crew members have been rescued. The coast guard was working to douse the flames, with pictures showing black smoke filling the air.
The explosion happened at around 09:20 local time (00:20 GMT).
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe interrupted a debate in parliament on Thursday to announce the incident.
“In waters off Hyogo [prefecture], a tanker has exploded and is currently in flames,” he said.
Four of the crew members sustained serious injuries, according to reports.
“I heard that a crew member was using a grinder to remove paint and that seems to have triggered the blast, which we believe could have occurred when the remnants of the oil caught fire,” Akihiro Komura, from Syoho Shipping company which owns the ship, told AFP news agency .
He added that all the crew members were Japanese nationals.
Severe storm destroys airport hangar near Big Sandy, USA
Severe thunderstorms tore through north central Montana on Wednesday evening.
KRTV has received a couple reports of damage from across the region as of 8:45 p.m. Wednesday
Viewer Shelley Chauvet tells us an airport hangar was destroyed near Big Sandy and debris was thrown across her pasture.
Chauvet said, “It just got really really dark and it felt like it was going to hail and then all of a sudden it just started to pour rain and the hail started coming and the hail, was very intense and you could hardly see the trees out in front of our house. Then we started seeing pieces of something white blowing and we thought it was just tin off of somebody’s building or garage or something. Then all of a sudden a huge chunk of the roof of the hangar blew across the highway and into our horse pasture and you could see then as the storm let up if you looked over towards the airport you could see that the building was absolutely demolished.”
The National Weather Service in Great Falls says the storms produced golf ball to ping pong ball-sized hail in several areas, which may have damaged crops and other small buildings.
A trained spotter in Harlem reported power lines were blown down in Harlem in Blaine County around 8:15 p.m. A small fire was started, but there’s no word on whether or not it was put out.
We’ll pass along any additional reports of storm damage as we get them.
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MAGNITUDE 5.5 NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
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Depth: 10 km
Distances: 1983 km NE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands / pop: 48,220 / local time: 16:45:58.8 2014-05-29
2110 km E of Tokyo, Japan / pop: 8,336,599 / local time: 15:45:58.8 2014-05-29
2563 km NW of Majuro, Marshall Islands / pop: 25,400 / local time: 18:45:58.8 2014-05-29
MAGNITUDE 5.3 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
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Depth: 35 km
Distances: 1055 km S of Nuku‘alofa, Tonga / pop: 22,400 / local time: 19:39:05.0 2014-05-29
941 km NE of Whangarei, New Zealand / pop: 50,900 / local time: 18:39:05.0 2014-05-29
MAGNITUDE 5.0 MOLUCCA SEA
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Distances: 801 km S of Davao, Philippines / pop: 1,212,504 / local time: 09:16:49.8 2014-05-29
194 km S of Manado, Indonesia / pop: 451,893 / local time: 09:16:49.8 2014-05-29
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