Debris from Japan’s disaster could wash up in BC in a year
Posted April 23, 2011 7:03 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – It’s been well over a month since the earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, so where is all that rubble that was swept away to sea? One expert says some of it may soon be washing up on the West Coast.
Boats, cars, even whole buildings have been floating across the Pacific, and that mess could cover a swath of more than 100 miles wide.
Brett Anderson, Senior Meteoroligist with accuweather.com, says based on the currents, it could reach our shores in one to three years. “A lot of it will be broken up into much smaller pieces by then, and some of the bigger pieces will probably end up sinking as well.”
He says a lot of the rubble is already well out at sea, getting picked up by the big ocean currents and there is a chance, depending on how much of this debris holds together, that some of this stuff could eventually reach the West Coast of Canada and the United States.
Anderson adds they’ve seen it happen before with debris from disasters in years past.
