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Debris travelling faster than expected across Pacific
• Daily MailTelevisions, fridges and furniture pieces are heading for Hawaii, as a huge amount of debris from Japan’s earthquake sails across the Pacific.
Up to 20 million tons of debris from the earthquake in March is traveling faster than expected and could reach the U.S. West Coast in three years.
On the way: Experts have revised predictions to say the debris will reach will now reach the Midway Islands by winter and Hawaii in less than two years
‘We have a rough estimate of 5 to 20 million tons of debris coming from Japan,’ University of Hawaii researcher Jan Hafner told KITV.
Experts have revised predictions to say the debris will now reach the Midway Islands by winter and Hawaii in less than two years.
Crew
members on the Russian training ship STS Pallada spotted the debris
2,000 miles from Japan, including a fishing boat from Fukushima,
reported AFP.
1 Comments in Response to Debris travelling faster than expected across Pacific
This is probably what the Asians said about the transplanted Europeans from the Americas.