Japan: Nuclear crisis raised to Chernobyl level (bbc.co.uk)

Chernobyl cost several hundred thousand lives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Assessing_th...). Let's hope and pray Fukushima will not exact a similar cost.

Says something about the media that they mention in passing that 13,228 people have died, 14,529 are missing and over 150,000 people are homeless. All from the earthquake, not the nuclear plant. And yet the focus is on the nuclear plant, which fortunately has not yet been responsible for any deaths and if we consider Chernobyl the worst case scenario, will have a much lower death toll than the earthquake. I'm not saying it's not important, but what happened to reporting about the effects of the earthquake? Did that just become boring news?