4.9 quake hits Fukushima at 6:28p EST
Magnitude 4.9 – NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN @ 6:28pm EST on Jan. 5, 2011:
- Magnitude 4.9
- Friday, January 06, 2012 at 08:28:44 AM at epicenter
- Location 37.555°N, 141.820°E
- Depth 22 km (13.7 miles)
- Region NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
- Distances 100 km (62 miles) NE of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan
- 112 km (69 miles) SE of Sendai, Honshu, Japan
- 121 km (75 miles) E of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
- 278 km (172 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan
Japan Meteorological Agency:
- 08:28 JST 06 Jan 2012 at 37.5N 142.0E
- Depth: 20 km
- Magnitude: 4.6
- Region Name: Fukushima-ken Oki
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So does this bring the total number of earthquakes in eastern Japan today to 3? (or am I missing or double counting any?)
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You can see all of them here:
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/quake_local_index.html
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Wow! Japan is just getting hammered with aftershocks right now. They better make sure those spent fuel pool wells are stable. All this shaking is going to cause gasses to be released again. If they find any Iodine or Xenon freshly released it could tell us the extent of the damage from the quakes. The recent reports of additional cesium after the new years quake showed us that radioactive substances are still likely to come out of the plant. What I want to know is how much xenon gas is being released right now and if they are taking measurements at all. Shaking melted cores can’t be good for us.
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Also, Don’t forget that there still could be a 7+ or even an 8 or larger aftershock.. the 6.8 the other day in southern Japan was a whole new EQ…
I studied Seismology, I’m not an expert, but have a good understanding , and those expected aftershocks would not be out of line …
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Actually aftershocks are smaller than the main earthquake. If there is a larger earthquake, then today’s quake is a foreshock, but should be related EQ’s not 400 miles away.
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I was referring to the 9.0 , 10 months ago…, as there still could be a sizable aftershock associated with the main event …
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Yes, a separate event.
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Earthquake 6 Jan 8.28 JST
Magnitude 4.9
Date-Time
• Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 23:28:44 UTC
• Friday, January 06, 2012 at 08:28:44 AM at epicenter
Location 37.555°N, 141.820°E Depth22 km (13.7 miles) RegionNEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN Distances
• 98 km (61 miles) NE (56°) from Iwaki, Honshu, Japan
• 113 km (70 miles) SE (133°) from Sendai, Honshu, Japan
• 121 km (75 miles) E (99°) from Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
• 280 km (174 miles) NE (41°) from TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertaintyhorizontal +/- 14.9 km (9.3 miles); depth +/- 7.8 km (4.8 miles)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0007grs.php
08:28 JST 06 Jan 2012 37.5N 142.0E 20 km 4.6 Fukushima-ken Oki
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120106083320391-060828.html
This earthquake is 44.1 mi (70.98 km) E from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant [75 miles from Fukushima City]
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
Fukushima #1 37.422972N 141.032917E
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On Fukushima Diary , the writer said he was told by the wife of someone who works in nuclear industry that he must wear a mask now ( which is very strong in Japanese customs). Also the nuclear worker on twitter said that contractors are leaving the plant since December – kind of like rats abandoning the sinking ship ( my comparison).
If the sp4 did not rapidly deteriorate today after 3 earthquakes with epicenter under the Fukushima nuclear plant, especially after already defying the laws of structure and physics (after removal of walls) it would be a miracle. What is causing the earthquakes exactly under the plant?
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What’s going on under the plant is what I worry about. When you shake nuclear soup that is in a state of China Syndrome what happens? The structural state of the reactors is completely compromised and TEPCO is already ready to flee the scene if high concentrations “emerge” from the soup. These quakes could have caused liquefaction which could have changed water levels in the containment. Not knowing what is going on downstairs is really hindering our knowledge of what kinds of fission reactions are happening or if they are happening at all.
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It takes very strong shaking to cause liquefaction. So maybe not likely unless the ground was already more or less pulverized.
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fukushima-diary.com I belive is making things up.
There are NO reports on JMA, USGS or any other earthquake information site that I checked.
So, I repeat, there have no factual published reports of quakes “directly under” the nuclear plant.
There have been quakes 45-50km away from the Fuku DaiIchi plant. None any closer. Anything else is random guessing by the F-D blog owner who is reporting or wishfully thinking (about this particular blog article) from Europe, not locally.
Where is the proof???!
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I verified this by typing in the long/lat coordinates into Google Maps… the coordinates are 50KM or further inland away from the plants. That doesn’t count as “under”. Sheesh!
It’s bad already, no need to undermine ourselves with wishful thinking or aspersions.
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http://imgur.com/jZ45m
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He didn’t make anything up. Whoever reported these earthquakes didn’t know the coordinates of Fuku. Daiichi. They may have been near to Fukushima City which is about 30 miles inland from Fukushima Daiichi NPP.
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the reports are auto-generated by computers at the seismic info collection stations. are you telling me someone’s hacked those, or they are messed up? you, like mochi, are providing zero proof.
it’s not like i’m on tepco/ge/bank/govt’s side of this shit. but reporting “fake news” undermines your and my goal of no nuclear power.
it’s not possible for earthquake records folks to “not know the coordinates” of where the quake happened…that’s their whole purpose!
why are you protecting a mistake at best or sloppy wishful blogging at best? the internet should be a space for facts not conjecture passed along as news by lazy ENE News.
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Sorry, Anne, I think Mochizuki could have looked up the coordinates before printing. That’s journalism, fact checking.
Yes, we all should fact check. And yes, we should be careful to post accurate information. That’s why I appreciate all the links you post, anne.
And I appreciate brilli for pointing it out. Brilli was more responsible than I was. I saw this discrepancy, not at Mochi’s site, but at another report. I noticed the inaccuracy, but I did not post to point it out. I should have, but I didn’t. So I thank Brilli for reminding me to adhere to facts and corrections when I see them.
Mo Blame! No Game!
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Thank you Brilli. It seems like people don’t know where the power plant is located, or can even identify Fukushima Prefecture on a map.
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Perhaps it wasn’t an earthquake but the corium or the drilling they are doing akin to the earthquakes in Ohio caused by Fracking. Just a thought.
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The epicenter of these earthquakes was over 30 miles from Fuku Daiichi.
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exactly!
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Alexa my money’s on the corium. Nice cold shutdown.
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I really don’t think that anyone has been on site for a week. at least.
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I guess we’ll just wait until iodine levels are reported again
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They have been
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MoonShellblue, would you mind saying where that report can be found?
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Fukushima Diary is where I get a lot of my info but I was recently informed by my spouse and will have to check where exactly he got the info. The following is from Fukushima Diary “In the article, I posted that Iodine 131 was measured at 3 garbage disposal facilities but in December, Iodine 131 was measured at 10 of 12 sewerage disposal plants in Tokyo.”
The samples are dehydration sludge, sampled between 12/1 ~ 12/6.
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Moscow Time, Japan in for another Big One?
Last year saw the number of underground tremors in Japan going up a hefty seven times, with the national meteorological service reporting almost 10,000 jolts registered on and around …
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/06/63448254.html
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