Japanese tsunami landed on Alaska

An unprecedented amount of garbage from last year's tsunami in Japan is flooding on the Alaskan coast.

Floating, foam-like floating objects landed on the coast of Montague island, 190km southeast of Anchorage, in large numbers. They are most likely junk because the Japanese tsunami last March pushed.

White foam and black buoy spread dozens of kilometers on the shore
Monague island sea, Alaska. (Photo: GulfofAlaskaKeeper)

"The amount of garbage collected in the first surveys on the island shows the largest amount of porous, buoy and floating objects ever," AFP quoted Patrick Chandler, Alaska Coast Research Center, as saying. .

According to Patrick, it is very difficult to confirm that this amount of garbage brought by last year's Japanese tsunami."Previously we only saw a few dozen black buoys floating from the aquaculture grounds in Japan drifted in. Now we see hundreds of buoys," Patrick said before the long beach cleanup campaign. 12 days start. Since no other source could contain so much garbage, his team concluded it could only be from the Japanese tsunami.

It is predicted that for months, even years, millions of tons of garbage will be drifted by the Japanese tsunami to push to the western hemisphere. Researchers in Hawaii have built computer models that can predict the location and time of the garbage drifting to the US coast.

In early April, the US coast guard force sank an abandoned Japanese fishing boat that landed on the Alaskan coast more than a year after floating in the sea due to the tsunami.

Also last month, a Japanese boy said he would return a ball from the Middleton Island, Alaska Bay to this place.

The Canadian media in early May also announced that a Harley motorbike originated from Miyagi Prefecture, one of the worst hit tsunami-hit areas in Japan, was found on Graham Island near the state of British Columbia. . The car lay in a container washed up on the coast.