8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan triggers tsunami warnings

[Astronuc]

Mag 7.1 (revised down from 7.4)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0002ksa.php
Date-Time:
Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 14:32:41 UTC
Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 11:32:41 PM at epicenter

Location: 38.253°N, 141.640°E
Depth: 25.6 km (15.9 miles)

Distances:
66 km (41 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan
114 km (70 miles) E of Yamagata, Honshu, Japan
116 km (72 miles) ENE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
330 km (205 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan

 

[Lancelot59]

Is there no end to this madness? I say we find a planet without separate tectonic plates and move there.

Any new news on the reactor?

 

[Proton Soup]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9iJ3pPuL8

http://www.videonews.com/

Fukushima, Japan - The Japanese government has issued the evacuation order on March 12 for the residents living within the 20 kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Since then, residents have left their homes, and the "no man land" has been out of touch with the rest of the world.

A Japanese journalist, Tetsuo Jimbo, ventured through the evacuation zone last Sunday, and filed the following video report.

He says that, inside the evacuation zone, homes,building, roads and bridges, which were torn down by Tsunami, are left completely untouched, and the herd of cattle and pet dogs, left behind by the owners, wonders around the town while the radiation level remains far beyond legal limits.

 

[Borek]

It will be interesting to check health effects of the radiation on these animals. In Czarnobyl exclusion zone animals thrive.

 

[HossamCFD]

Japan raises the Fukushima crisis to level 7

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-japan-idUSTRE72A0SS20110412?pageNumber=1

They say that nothing happened recently, but their initial prediction of the crisis level was not correct.

I find this rather strange. If the radiation levels were that high from the beginning, wouldn't China or other neighboring countries detect them ? It seems to me that the Japanese are exaggerating a bit.

 

[Borg]

Japan raises the Fukushima crisis to level 7

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-japan-idUSTRE72A0SS20110412?pageNumber=1

They say that nothing happened recently, but their initial prediction of the crisis level was not correct.

I find this rather strange. If the radiation levels were that high from the beginning, wouldn't China or other neighboring countries detect them ? It seems to me that the Japanese are exaggerating a bit.

The prevailing winds are blowing most of the radiation out to sea. I doubt that China can even detect as much as is being seen in the US (which isn't much).

[URL]http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-191816-galleryV9-nhjp.gif[/URL]

 

[HossamCFD]

Thanks for the very descriptive animation !

 

[Borg]

Thanks for the very descriptive animation !

You're welcome. Note that the animation is only for the first week or so but, the general direction will still tend to be out to sea.

 

[mayeeta]

Abandoned Cattle Near Fukushima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://youtu.be/eVAorP4J5L4
http://youtu.be/eVAorP4J5L4

Heartbreaking.

 

[robinson]

Not sure which thread this would go in. Politics certainly seems the right place.

British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/30/british-government-plan-play-down-fukushima

 

[Astronuc]

Looking back - 8 months later.

Reflections on Operation Tomodachi (Friendship)
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/around-...apocalypse-japan-8-month-later-020117526.html

 

[rootX]

http://www.npu.go.jp/en/policy/policy06/pdf/20121004/121004_en2.pdf

Verified results of national discussions so far held throughout Japan clearly
indicate that, after the experiences of an accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station and in the ensuing sufferings of many local areas and citizens
including those in Fukushima Prefecture, many people are hoping to “build a
society not dependent on nuclear power”. So do those discussions, on the other
hand, also reveal divergences in their views on how early it could realize and even
whether it could possibly be built.

Phasing out nuclear by 2040