Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Island of debris the size of TEXAS from 2011 Japanese tsunami is headed straight for the U.S.


An estimated 5 million tons of debris washed into the ocean in March of 2011 during the tsunami. Around 70 percent of it is believed to have immediately sunk near the Japanese coast. Some more mobile items may have reached the Pacific Northwest before 2011 even came to a close. The first documented piece of debris to arrive in California, a barnacle covered fishing boat, came ashore in April 2013. The particles are dispersed sparsely from Alaska to the Philippines.

The Texas-sized trash island is located northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. Some of the more mobile items have been documented as washing up on the coast of California as early as 2011.



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