Japan 8.9 earthquake and Tsunami

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:22 am

Kinetic V wrote:And it appears this is happening on a fault nobody knows much about. The media stories on this brought up the point that a few of the more major quakes of late have happened on previously unknown faults.

I don't know if that means anything beyond that earthquakes are the easiest way to discover particular faults. I'm sure there's walking the landscape as well, but that's much more labor intensive. And geoscience is young enough that there's a whole lot to be discovered. Again, I'm sure some of them were discovered or tracked on some level by societies living on them, but it's not like we paid much attention to the peoples living in (for instance) Nevada.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:20 pm

Kinetic, you don't need to worry about all those faults. They're not near as bad as they're cracked up to be.

Here's an article from a Bay Area paper that talks about the radiation leaks from the sarcophagus that entombs Chernobyl.
http://sfbayview.com/2011/is-the-fukush ... chernobyl/
I was looking for a less reliable source to "stir things up" but, I couldn't find one.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:53 pm

Seems that there is some sort of exodus in Tokyo;
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.c ... n-and.html

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:33 am

can't sit still wrote:Seems that there is some sort of exodus in Tokyo;
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.c ... n-and.html

Maybe MS can get in line for re-fi?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:08 am

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pac ... s/(page)/2

[quote]â€œI currently have a shipment of 2,000 prefab homes on their way from Canada, and I canâ€™t even get the German shipping company which is bringing them to dock in Tokyo because theyâ€™re scared about radiation,â€

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:21 pm

This seems to be a good paper showing the U.S. birth defects and deaths resulting from Chernobyl;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ro ... 55909.html
There is also a good link.
"
March 21, 2011 Dr. Chris Busby at European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECCR) predicts 120,000 cancers worldwide from Fukushima accident based on current known releases. He also confirmed that three spent fuel pools are burned up which puts the radiatin levels at 24,000 Hiroshimas x 3 spent pools or 72,000 times the radiation of Hiroshima is now in the atmosphere."

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:00 am

I saw the new reactor being built in time lapse in Sanmen.

It has a cooling tank on top that can operate by gravity for days, in theory.

Standardized design.
Built from 350 prefab modules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Plant

WARNING COMMERCE LINK
(JUST IN CASE ANYONE HAS 6 BILLION BURNING A HOLE IN THEIR POCKET)
http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:04 am

gyre wrote:I saw the new reactor being built in time lapse in Sanmen.

It has a cooling tank on top that can operate by gravity for days, in theory.

Standardized design.
Built from 350 prefab modules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Plant

WARNING COMMERCE LINK
(JUST IN CASE ANYONE HAS 6 BILLION BURNING A HOLE IN THEIR POCKET)
http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you?

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:49 pm

This page has a real-time earthquake monitor. Kinda cool.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:40 pm

This page has some good pics of the Tsunami inside the reactor buildings;
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/148344/ ... conomy.htm

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Fri May 27, 2011 7:09 am

Not sure what to make of this. This paper speculates about a typhoon hitting Fukushima this weekend. A category 5.
http://enenews.com/nuclear-super-typhoo ... ts-195-mph

Post by **AntiM** » Fri May 27, 2011 7:47 am

Should be down to a cat 2 by the time it gets that far north. Should be.

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:02 pm

This is an interesting vid by a guy driving along on dry streets. Then, in comes the tsunami. He floats around for a few minutes doing a commentary then, at the end, his car finally sinks.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:15 pm

just had a 7.2 in the Aleutians.

Laughing Forest · Post by **Laughing Forest** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:21 pm

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:23 pm

I'm probably responsible for that.

pizzamancer · Post by **pizzamancer** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:44 am

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pizzamancer · Post by **pizzamancer** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:46 am

can't sit still wrote:Not sure what to make of this. This paper speculates about a typhoon hitting Fukushima this weekend. A category 5.
http://enenews.com/nuclear-super-typhoo ... ts-195-mph

The taifun hit Nagasaki yesterday. Crappy windy rainy weather. It is south of Korea now, but the eastern edge is still over Japan.