Tapan & Chandana

Devastative Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan

The earthquake in Japan on Friday 11-03-2011 of 8.9 magnitude on Rictor scale followed by Tsunami is one of the worst disaster in Japan’s history., causing loss of lives & huge property.

This has happened due to the movement of massive Tectonic plates. Japan is located in the “Ring of Fire”, which is essentially an arc that stretches along the basin of the pacific ocean. The tectonic plates are on the move and when they hit each other, it builds a pressure, then pressure releases, causing earthquake and the rising seabed triggers Tsunami. The Japan Earthquake is estimated to have generated energy that was roughly equivalent to the energy the US consumes in a year, according to Seismologist David Wald –

Agency report published in TOI dated-13-3-2011 

Car A/C & cancer

Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car.  Open the windows after you enter your car and then turn ON the AC after a couple of minutes.
    Here's why:
  According to research, the car dashboard, seats, air freshener emit Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen - take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car).
 In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. Can also cause miscarriage.
 Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50mg per sq.ft.  A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene.
 If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level.
 People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession, excessive amounts of the toxin.
Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver.. What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
So friends, please open the windows and door of your car - give time for interior to air out -dispel the deadly stuff - before you enter.
 Thought: 'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.'
 This is what snopes.com says. It is not the air conditioning in the car but the Benzene producing agents that cause cancer.
 Source:-   http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/benzene.asp