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MAP: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_35.php
1. Magnitude 5.2
Date-Time
• Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 23:05:26 UTC
• Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 08:05:26 AM at epicenter
Location
37.056°N, 141.182°E
Depth
58.3 km (36.2 miles)
Region
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
26 km (16 miles) E of Iwaki, Japan
49 km (30 miles) NE of Kitaibaraki, Japan
49 km (30 miles) SSE of Namie, Japan
56 km (34 miles) NE of Takahagi, Japan
This earthquake is 26.7 mi (42.89 km) SSE from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 19.9 mi (32.10 km) SSE from Fukushima Daini (#2) Nuclear Power Plant
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
Fukushima #1 37.422972N 141.032917E
Fukushima #2 37.316389N 141.025556E
2. Magnitude 5.1
Date-Time
• Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 07:19:32 UTC
• Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 04:19:32 PM at epicenter
Location
37.065°N, 141.166°E
Depth
40.4 km (25.1 miles)
Region
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
25 km (15 miles) E of Iwaki, Japan
48 km (29 miles) SSE of Namie, Japan
49 km (30 miles) NE of Kitaibaraki, Japan
56 km (34 miles) NE of Takahagi, Japan
This earthquake is 25.8 mi (41.51 km) SSE from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 19.0 mi (30.60 km) SSE from Fukushima Daini (#2) Nuclear Power Plant
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3.
Magnitude
5.5
Date-Time
• Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 14:59:36 UTC
• Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 11:59:36 PM at epicenter
Location
38.757°N, 142.096°E
Depth
33.6 km (20.9 miles)
Region
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
50 km (31 miles) SE of Ofunato, Japan
60 km (37 miles) SSE of Kamaishi, Japan
70 km (43 miles) SSE of Otsuchi, Japan
80 km (49 miles) SSE of Yamada, Japan
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2012.12.30 08:00-09:00 (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTTClIOsPAQ
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2012.12.29 16:00-17:00 (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4C7rl4HwoQ
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The quakes just keep coming..in the same areas. Anyone see comments from TEPCO? Any concerns? Anywhere.???
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This particular fault just south of Fuku Daini was activated by the 311 earthquake. But usually the quakes are 3.0 or less in magnitude.
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This was all that I could find… but it was just a quick look. http://www.nhk.or.jp/special/detail/2013/0112/
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http://www.tvjapan.net/en/
I try not to watch the news too often anymore
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There'll be nobody around to watch any news if this keeps up:
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Circulatory Disease From Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation and Estimates of Potential Population Mortality Risks
Mark P. Little, Tamara V. Azizova, Dimitry Bazyka, Simon D. Bouffler, Elisabeth Cardis, Sergey Chekin, Vadim V. Chumak, Francis A. Cucinotta, Florent de Vathaire, Per Hall, John D. Harrison, Guido Hildebrandt, Victor Ivanov, Valeriy V. Kashcheev, Sergiy V. Klymenko, Michaela Kreuzer, Olivier Laurent, Kotaro Ozasa, Thierry Schneider, Soile Tapio, Andrew M. Taylor, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Wendy L. Vandoolaeghe, Richard Wakeford, Lydia B. Zablotska, Wei Zhang, Steven E. Lipshultz Disclosures
Environ Health Perspect. 2012;120(11):1503-1511.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/773941
"If confirmed, our findings suggest that overall radiation-related mortality is about twice that currently estimated based on estimates for cancer end points alone (which range from 4.2% to 5.6%/Sv for these populations)."
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TEPCO starts removing fuel from Fukushima Daini reactor
Oct 3, 2012
http://www.houseofjapan.com/local/tepco-starts-removing-fuel-from-fukushima-daini-reactor
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“The earthquake occurred at 2:46 p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2011. A tsunami, caused by the earthquake, arrived at the coastline in several waves ~30 to 45 minutes later. As indicated in Fig. 7, five NPSs, located on the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan’s largest island, are in the vicinity of the earthquake/tsunami. They are, going north to south, the Higashidori NPS, the Onagawa NPS, the Fukushima Daiichi NPS, the Fukushima Daini NPS, and the Tokai Daini NPS.3 These NPSs are the ones that were primarily affected by the earthquake/tsunami. Table 1 gives details of each NPS….”
http://fukushima.ans.org/report/accident-analysis
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Everyone can get angry with me if you want, but I have seen all videos, documentaries, and all data, on the day of 3/11/2011, and cannot find a hint of a 9.0 Earthquake that day, nor did I see damage even to wooden structures, until the tsunami struck, which was completely unexpected, and no warnings issued until it was almost on top of them.
I cannot explain it, and no conspiracy theory involved, just simply noting that nothing more than a 6.4 occurred that day that I can find, and nothing about it was consistent. All buildings of all materials were still standing, until the tsunami.
All data from USGS was completely changed between 3/11 to 3/13…why?
This was just my personal observation from the time it was reported and reached me, when I immediately went to the USGS and saw a quake of only 5.8, and possibly up to 6.4, but nothing that even approached an 8.8 or higher until 3/13.
Attack!
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There are many pictures of earthquake damage posted here:
http://enenews.com/japan-tv-tepco-was-victim-of-cyber-attack-in-past-year/comment-page-1#comment-153254
Also, the very large earthquake was predicted and was preceded by large foreshocks. Please read all the comments in the link provided.
Please see also:
http://enenews.com/radio-analysis-three-mile-island-data-supports-allegations-hair-loss-pet-deaths-vomiting-after-being-exposed-radiation-audio/comment-page-1#comment-228078
and following arguments.
Fukushima Explained – by Finnish Nuclear ex-Employee Arto Lauri (HAARP & more)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V71EclYZm2c
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Sorry you sent me to another ENE thread and could find no pics of earthquake damages. If there is a specific link, it would be appreciated, since I have searched for the widespread devastation from such a large quake and can find none. All pics I can find are during and after the tsunami, on nearly pristine buildings. Seriously not some nutcase, just looking for evidence such as the 'Kobe' quake footage, which is extensive.
Sorry to bother you, and for my ignorance. Just attempting to understand what I cannot see.
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the quake was offshore, hence the tsunami. If it was a land based quake then there may have been more physical damage.
there was liquification, i clearly recall seeing footage of the ground floating.. there was no doubt about that.
christchurch in new zealand suffered greatly from liquification after it's quake, shortly before the japan quake.
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I meant the whole thread which are comments to:
http://enenews.com/japan-tv-tepco-was-victim-of-cyber-attack-in-past-year
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The picture below shows a power plant on fire in Ishihara. Picture:
http://www.news.com.au/world/as-it-happened-88-earthquake-rocks-japan-pacific-on-tsunami-alert/story-e6frfkyi-1226019957032
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=japan+quake+pictures&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UPe&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=942&bih=510&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=5ppllr-2-MjFcM:&imgrefurl=http://www.news.com.au/world/as-it-happened-88-earthquake-rocks-japan-pacific-on-tsunami-alert/story-e6frfkyi-1226019957032&docid=GSDExwVjNYbsAM&w=650&h=366&ei=7ENmTvHMH-rp0QG00NykCg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=148&vpy=228&dur=92&hovh=168&hovw=299&tx=147&ty=82&page=6&tbnh=128&tbnw=227&start=36&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:36
Buildings burn in Yamada town, Iwate Prefecture in north-east Japan, following the earthquake.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=japan+quake+pictures&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UPe&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=942&bih=510&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=s4gS8EVpR6OisM:&imgrefurl=http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake&docid=2sTM5P4enth35M&w=675&h=714&ei=7ENmTvHMH-rp0QG00NykCg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=358&page=9&tbnh=164&tbnw=177&start=54&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:54&tx=115&ty=74
urban quake damage reports coming in from many areas.
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None of these links are working for me…. And this is the first that I have heard where people didn't believe that there even was an earthquake! Wow. That's hard to wrap my mind around. Does there really have to be a conspiracy theory around everything! Geez.
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Again, I never said there wasn't a quake. I said I can find no evidence of a quake as massive as a 9.0, because most do not understand the actual destructive consequences of such a quake!
Even 10 Magnitude structures on shock absorbers would be damaged! Which is what all skyscrapers in Japan are engineered for. Wooden tiny structures are still standing after a quake that would have devasted all of New York City, mostly to the ground!
HELLOOOOOO!
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TEPCO and the nuclear industry want to get out of liability for the meltdowns. This is why we are arguing: because of the lawsuit just filed.
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Photos from Sendai prefecture, Japan: BB
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/03/pacific_warned_about_poss.php
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=japan+quake+pictures&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UPe&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=942&bih=510&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=tsTuluX93pRiOM:&imgrefurl=http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/03/pacific_warned_about_poss.php&docid=r167BJcwyq9IxM&w=375&h=280&ei=7ENmTvHMH-rp0QG00NykCg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=649&vpy=205&dur=692&hovh=160&hovw=225&tx=143&ty=107&page=11&tbnh=160&tbnw=225&start=66&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:66
FIRES ACROSS THE COAST
The quake, the most powerful since Japan started keeping records 140 years ago, sparked at least 80 fires in cities and towns along the coast, Kyodo said.
Other Japanese nuclear power plants and oil refineries were shut down and one refinery was ablaze. Television footage showed an intense fire in the waterfront area near Sendai.
Auto plants, electronics factories and refineries shut, roads buckled and power to millions of homes and businesses was knocked out. Several airports, including Tokyo’s Narita, were closed and rail services halted. All ports were shut.
http://www.indiavision.com/news/article/topnews/165962/
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In this photo released by Nexco East Japan, a worker inspects a caved-in section of the Joban Motorway near Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan slammed its eastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Nexco East Japan via kyodo News)
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/11/major-tsunami-damage-japan-after-89-quake/
http://media.courierpress.com/media/img/photos/2011/03/11/Japan_Earthquake_Reyn6_t607.jpg
Japanese police direct traffic on a highway destroyed during the Tohoku Earthquake in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, 11 March 2011. Photo by EPA/BGNES
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=126128
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=japan+quake+pictures&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=821&bih=510&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=nGxsjCvQdY2vvM:&imgrefurl=http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php%3Fid%3D126128&docid=smEi-1BU6eIoLM&w=480&h=319&ei=xEpmTrSNNuSBsgKLssWoCg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=723&page=26&tbnh=137&tbnw=206&start=156&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:156&tx=114&ty=55
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=japan+quake+pictures&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UPe&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=942&bih=510&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=aOPlHPHr2lSnQM:&imgrefurl=http://www.indiavision.com/news/article/topnews/165962/&docid=PANBc2faJd0-dM&w=400&h=390&ei=7ENmTvHMH-rp0QG00NykCg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=429&page=15&tbnh=163&tbnw=182&start=91&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:91&tx=86&ty=85
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That road damage photo definitely looks like earthquake to me!
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Consistent with a 6.4 magnitude. A 9 would have done much more damage, and this is POST-TSUNAMI photo, again. Even if it weren't, this is consistent with the Loma Preita quake and not what was reported, otherwise, there would be no hint of a roadway. Again, none seem to understand the MAGS!
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Do you have even one scientific link which supports you theory?
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I can pull hundreds out of my butt, but…common sense rules here. I do believe Japan is trying to duck liabilty for being Japan, but something here is very fishy. I cannot explain a tsunami with a 6.4 quake anywhere. Some other dynamic is at work.
Sure, most of the coast is mainly landfil and subsidence prone, and mostly engineered that way by the govt. and FUKU should never have been set up in this area, (kinda like begging for it), but still some factors do not add up at all.
Still no actual eyeball evidence of a 9.0 MAG quake before the Tsunami. All I have to say on the matter. You folks work it out in your own way.
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382 km is 237 miles from the epicenter
Japan SHocked!! Huge Earthquake at 8.9 Magnitude – Building tower shaking(Liv
“The massive 8.8 magnitude quake struck about 382 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cjz3JFxMPc
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GPS Measurements of Ground Motion during Tohoku-oki Earthquake
“…Some interesting things to note in the animation are: At around 20,900 seconds there is a large arc of land uplift that propagates towards the west; At about 20,960 there is a wave of N/S displacement that sweeps south west through the Tokyo region, after witch there is significant short period motion in the region. At around 21,050 seconds most of the large-scale motion has ceased leaving an overall drop in elevation along the coastline of 80 cm to 40 cm (2 feet to 1 feet)….”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HONU8jlBuU
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Pictures of damage caused by the 311 earthquake and tsunami to JPARC which is just next door to the Tokai NPP
http://j-parc.jp/picture/2011/03/StatusEnglish0328.pdf
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Picture of earthquake damage at Fukushima Daini:
August 22, 2011 7:22 AM
Anonymous said…
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A Pee Man standing on Fukushima Daini roof … the stacks are NOT aligned as the text implies (Daichii.)
http://wp.me/pwIAV-19
Picture http://preparator.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/newnwe-crack-kooste-a.jpg?w=585&h=472
Posted at:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/fukushima-ii-not-i-nuke-plant.html?showComment=1313923325696#c8805646999477886239
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“One year ago on March 11, a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Tohoku region of Japan, rattling the seismically active country and setting of a devastating tsunami that wreaked havoc on the Japanese coast and reached all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
“It was the biggest earthquake in Japan's recorded history and the fourth biggest quake in the recorded history of the planet.
“But the effects of the quake weren't limited to Japan and they weren't confined to the shaking of the earth and the setting off of ocean waves. The earthquake's energy reached around the world to Antarctica and high into the Earth's atmosphere, even altering the local pull of Earth's gravity field. Here, OurAmazingPlanet reviews the strangest effects the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami had on our planet.”
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/2572-craziest-japan-earthquake-effects.html
In Pictures: Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
http://www.livescience.com/13200-photos-japan-earthquake-tsunami.html
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The 9.2 earthquake in Alaska was exponentially greater than the 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan.
“It had a magnitude of 9.2, at the time making it the second largest earthquake in recorded history.[2][4]….
some areas near Kodiak were permanently raised by 30 feet (9.1 m). Southeast of Anchorage, areas around the head of Turnagain Arm near Girdwood and Portage dropped as much as 8 feet (2.4 m),
The epicenter of the earthquake was 61.05°N 147.48°W, 12.4 mi (20 km) north of Prince William Sound, 78 miles (125 km) east of Anchorage and 40 miles (64 km) west of Valdez. The focus occurred at a depth of approximately 15.5 mi (25 km).
“Vertical displacement of up to 38 feet (11.5 m) occurred, affecting an area of 100,000 miles² (250,000 km²) within Alaska….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake
The Tohoku earthquake was 20 miles deep out in the ocean. Fukushima sank one foot. The vertical displacement in Alaska was 38 feet. The earthquake epicenter in Alaska was under populated land.
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• A fire burns at a natural gas storage facility in Chiba in this still image taken from video footage March 11, 2011.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/8375410/Japan-shares-tumble-yen-falls-after-massive-earthquake.html
In this photo released by Nexco East Japan, a worker inspects a caved-in section of the Joban Motorway near Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan slammed its eastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Nexco East Japan via kyodo News)
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/11/major-tsunami-damage-japan-after-89-quake/
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=japan+quake+pictures&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UPe&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=942&bih=510&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=TezRYnbbtytcfM:&imgrefurl=http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/11/major-tsunami-damage-japan-after-89-quake/&docid=TWTaQTYtlvg28M&w=607&h=456&ei=7ENmTvHMH-rp0QG00NykCg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=410&vpy=217&dur=64&hovh=195&hovw=259&tx=127&ty=127&page=5&tbnh=161&tbnw=228&start=30&ndsp=6&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:30
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I am sorry Anne, but this in no way dispels my questions…This photo and article do not describe anything near a 0.0 earthquake. This damage shown in is a known subsidence prone bed of highway made purely by dumped sediments, (as many parts of the coast are),and if you will check it out, and almost arises to the Kobe quake, but not quite, and also note that the article immediately goes to the tsunami devastation.
I am looking for buildings made from all materials that fell in the most massive earthquake recorded in modern times. Remeber the 1811 quake featured geyers of sand, and nothing withstood its force, as well as damming the Mississippi up and creating Reelfoot Lake and changed the map of the US.
Also remember that quake rang church bells in Boston, over a thousand miles away.
This quake was supposedly 10 times worse than the New Madrid quake of 1811. Each Richter point is ten times mor energy and force.
Just using logic, and do not see any evidence of that massive a quake. The damage you have shown so far is on a par with less than the last big quake in California in 89, and many more pictures of it too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake
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Freedom just ask someone from Assumption Parish to help you analyze the pictures. Only someone who lives there will know the true measure of the changes.
http://www.assumptionla.com/contact-us
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You can cheap shot me all you want, Kali. It doesn't change a fact. I expected better from you. Show me pictures of a 9.0 quake in Japan…the absolute widespread devastation that would cause and is never observed…until AFTER the Tsunami.
PERIOD.
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There was terrible damage done just from the earthquake and before the tsunami arrived. The reason infrastructure survived fairly well (except for the bad design of the reactor buildings which are a travesty) is that Japanese earthquake damage prevention is nonpareil.
Example:
"Claire Berlinski wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “That so few buildings collapsed in the earthquake was a human triumph of the first order. A minute before the March earthquake, seismic monitoring systems sent warnings to Japanese cellphones. Elevators glided obediently to the nearest floor and opened. Surgeries were halted. Videos from Tokyo show skyscrapers swaying gracefully, like cornstalks in the wind. Not one collapsed.
The Japan quake was not the catastrophe it could have been because the country learned from experience. In the wake of the 1995 Kobe quake, in which 200,000 buildings collapsed, Japanese engineers took extensive measures to reinforce buildings and infrastructure. They installed rubber blocks under bridges. They spaced buildings farther apart to prevent domino-style tumbling. They introduced extra bracing, base isolation pads, hydraulic shock absorbers."
http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=1675
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So SP, you are saying all of the wooden structures were on the same technology as the skyscrapers with shock absorbing capabilities?
Even reports after Kobe state that only 20 percent of all infrastructure was actually benefitting from this technology.
Now look at how large a magnitude it was at Kobe, and what happened here which would be 20 times the forces and liquifaction as at Kobe, then tell me this again with a straight face.
Of course the quake caused some damage, and nothing normal people would pay little attention to, as noticed from all vids when all parking lots were full, and no one rushing from the buildings to evacuate when the tsunami hit.
Very specious argument.
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FROX, Again the epicenter of the Kobe earthquake was under populated land. It was not many miles out in the ocean as the 311 earthquake, the Tohoku earthquake was.
Also it matters the depth of the earthquake and whether it is more horizontal than vertical.
Your arguments are non-scientific and based not on science, but on emotion and lack of knowledge. You are ignoring all the seismic studies by trained geologists and other expert scientists.
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Depth of the Kobe earthquake was only 16 km (9.94 mi) as opposed to the Tohoku earthquake which was 20 miles deep way out in the ocean.
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Foreshocks 7
Aftershocks 1,236
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami
According to seismologists, we are still getting aftershocks that are over 7.0 in magnitude.
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It depends on what kind of earthquake it is:
Three Kinds of Earthquakes
http://www.burkemuseum.org/static/earthquakes/bigone/threekinds.html
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I am a redneck geologist. Sorry to have upset you.
Yes, nothing happened in 2004, and nothing happened here either…it was just a dream, turned nightmare.
If only any of you could understand transmission from depth vesus effects.
If an eartquake happed 40 miles away at a depth of twenty miles deep at 9.0 anywhere onland or offshore at thes distances or depths….you would be dead.
Simple physics. Do the math. If outside and averted the many fissures and tears, you may survive, but your brain would be near to mush for months until it could recover from the vibratory effects. These effects were recorded in the Alaska study after the 1964 Quake.
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I have to get up in the morning to take the final in the engineering class I'm taking from Stanford Univ. on Solar Cells, Batteries, and Fuel Cells. I have to get some sleep.
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FROX,
This earthquake was 80 miles from shore, not the 50 miles you write about:
Magnitude
9.0
Date-Time
• Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:24 UTC
• Friday, March 11, 2011 at 02:46:24 PM at epicenter
Location
38.297°N, 142.372°E
Depth
30 km (18.6 miles) set by location program
Region
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
129 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan
177 km (109 miles) E of Yamagata, Honshu, Japan
177 km (109 miles) ENE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
373 km (231 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 13.5 km (8.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0001xgp/
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TYPO:
not the 40 miles you wrote about
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New Madrid earthquake was more shallow:
“…From what is known about the present seismicity of the area, it can be inferred that their focal depths were probably between 5 and 20 kilometers [between 3.1 and 12.4 miles]….”
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1811_overview.php
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An SOS sign is written on the ground of Shizugawa High School in Minamisanrikucho in Miyagi Prefecture on Sunday two days after the powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the area.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42058349/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/death-toll-surges-japan-quake-aftermath/#.TmZHpmpvwrU
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=japan+quake+pictures&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UPe&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=942&bih=510&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&tbnid=kM8MWn7jKIbL8M:&imgrefurl=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42058349/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/death-toll-surges-japan-quake-aftermath/&docid=3dIESDSWM1zfUM&w=474&h=320&ei=7ENmTvHMH-rp0QG00NykCg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=628&vpy=208&dur=1120&hovh=184&hovw=273&tx=173&ty=101&page=17&tbnh=148&tbnw=225&start=103&ndsp=7&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:103
Another picture:
http://getanylink.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/japan_earthquake_2011.jpg
Another picture:
http://momedia.kyte.tv/mv/bor/1103/13/12/2977855-japan_quake_83zz44_460_308.jpg?h=12dfbb50ec76aaefc8fe044e69e4c5d2
PHOTO: Buildings burn in Yamada town, Iwate prefecture (state) after Japan’s biggest recorded earthquake hit Friday.
http://veryfatoldman.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan-disaster-japanese-inspired.html
http://www.toledoblade.com/image/2011/03/11/800x_b1_cCM_z_%232235/Japan-earthquake-damage-fire-Yamada.jpg
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Every last one of these are Post-Tsunami. I have been everywhere and find only minor earthquake damage Pre-Tsunami.
Did not mean to upset anyone, just attempting to find the after-effects of a true 8.9, 9.0 earthquake, and still haven't found any. Sorry.
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The Great East Japan Earthquake
“On 11 March 2011, in the early aftern oon (14:46:23 local time), Japan was rocked by 9.0-magn itude earthquake that caused widespread damage to the coun try’s eastern coastal region . It lasted approximately six min utes, occurred at a relatively shallow depth of 24.4 kilometres (km), or 15.2 miles, with an epicen tre of approximately 130 km (80 miles) east of Sen dai City, Tohoku region . The earthquake was so powerful it moved Hon shu, Japan ’s largest islan d, 2.4 metres east an d shifted the Earth on its axis by an estimated 10 to 25 cen timetres.
“Within the first day following the earthquake, more than 50 aftershocks were experienced, seven of which measured at least 6.3 on the Richter scale. Subsequently, the earthquake triggered 647 aftershocks (as of 4 August 2011), many with associated tsunami warnings.
http://www.wpro.who.int/publications/docs/japan_earthquake.pdf
http://www.wpro.who.int/publications/9789290615682/en/index.html
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“The magnitude of the quake was 9.0. The height of the tsunami? As much as 130 feet. The earthquake moved the main land mass of Japan 8 feet eastward, and shifted the axis of the entire Earth itself by some 4-10 inches….”
http://www.livingontherealworld.org/?p=600
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“…A separate group of seismologists who calculated the seismic slip to be over 30 meters (about 100 feet) in an area close to the Japan trench showed that a large area of the subduction zone in the earthquake affected area had small amounts of slip. Stress built up over hundreds of years of relative inactivity on the megathrust has been only partially relieved. This figure shows a large number of aftershocks in the fault segments adjacent to the areas of high offset. It shows that the great earthquake triggered aftershocks in the regions where offsets were small or zero. Foreshocks are indicated by blue circles, aftershocks by red circles….”
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/tohikuseismicslip946602.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/stressincreasedonfukush.png/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/23/988161/-eSci-Stress-Increased-on-Fukushima-Tokyo-Faults-Large-Earthquakes-Likely#
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and then? what are you trying to say frox?
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Not trying to SAy anything, just asked a question, and if anyone has photos or videos of quake damage from BEFORE the tsunami, it would be very appreciated, because I cannot find anything other than minor damage…nothing like the copious amounts of photos and vids from Kobe.
Is that a crime, sir?
I knew what this would spark, but only asking for one thing.
Also, tyvm Kali, that was helpful about the ten day waiting period.
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The failure at Fukushima Daiichi was caused by the earthquake which broke the cooling pipes.
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The land under Unit #4 sank 1 foot because of the earthquake.
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Lol there is no attack silly. The USGS legally has ten days to get earthquake seismic information from Japan. If within those ten days Japan chooses to upgrade or downgrade the information it does not matter until the final magnitude is posted. The goal was to make sure seismic analysts could get an accurate assessment but turned into a means for deception.
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FROX, The Japanese themselves announced that it was an 8.9 magnitude earthquake on March 11, 2011:
Uploaded on Mar 11, 2011
“PART 1 – NHK Breaking News Videos of 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake of the Coast of Japan. March 11, 2011 Biggest earthquake to hit Japan in 300 years. Tsunami coverage of devastation. Warnings for Tsunami's in multiple locations. Hawaii Tsunami Sirens. Multiple news channel coverage. Live Video 03/11/2011 Time: 12:30AM PST..”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3l0KlE5QAY
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FREEDOMROX: If you are going to try and reinvent the wheel again, it's not going to work. This 9.0 Great Quake is well documented.
A transmission power line tower fell over a short distance from the Daiichi plant. The land the plant site sits on subsided at least a 1 foot while shaking went on for more than 2 minutes causing pipes to separate and release steam then the ocean receded a couple hundred yards exposing the sea floor and leaving the pickup pumps high and dry.
Then the tsunami arrived.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0001xgp/
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Which would be expected from a 6.4 quake, and is happening today with lesser shocks.
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“Seismic risk at the Fukushima nuclear plant increased after the magnitude 9 earthquake that hit Japan last March, scientists report. The new study, which uses data from over 6,000 earthquakes, shows the 11 March tremor caused a seismic fault close to the nuclear plant to reactivate. The results are now published in Solid Earth, an Open Access journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)….
“This research is presented in the paper ‘Tomography of the 2011 Iwaki earthquake (M 7.0) and Fukushima nuclear power plant area’ to appear in the EGU Open Access journal Solid Earth on 14 February 2012.
“The scientific article is available online at http://www.solid-earth.net/3/43/2012/se-3-43-2012.pdf.
“The discussion paper (not peer-reviewed) and reviewers comments is available at http://www.solid-earth-discuss.net/3/1021/2011/sed-3-1021-2011.html. ”
http://www.egu.eu/news/3/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2011_Fukushima_earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idosawa_Fault
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2011-03-09 11:45 Mw 7.3, Mj 7.3[1]
38.424°N 142.836°E 32 km[USGS 1]
lower 5 The source was estimated to have a length of 28.7 km and a width of 53.2 km with a slip of 1.25 m.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreshocks_and_aftershocks_of_the_2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake
The foreshock sequence is shown here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0-8C3ggC30
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Japan is SINKING into the Ocean – April 12 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0iGEmQMU8
Japan is sinking in to the Ocean!
Uploaded on Mar 31, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDHP4ErTwU
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“…Studying data acquired on 19 February and 21 March, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have detected a ground shift of about 2.5 m eastwards and a downward motion of Honshu Island’s east coast.
“Scientists from Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia have used the same Envisat data to show a large portion of the surface displacement, with a maximum shift of 2.5 m….”
http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/2011/03/Interferogram_showing_ground_movement
http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/2011/03/Map_of_terrain_displacement
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Earth_movements_from_Japan_earthquake_seen_from_space#subhead2
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Really? WOW! It's been sinking for years in these areas! Don't believe me?
http://iahs.info/redbooks/a234/iahs_234_0487.pdf
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Anee, I do not want to argue, and should end this here and now. I knew I would upset someone, and sorry for that, but nothing anyone has produced here shows the magnitude of a 9.0 quake. Period.
Sorry but I have had all these responses on dozens of sites, and it always comes down to "He said, She said", but never any real pictures of a 9.0 quake BEFORE the tsunami, as was recorded in 1964 in Alaska.
I see nothing more that a 6.9-7 mag quake damage. Evidently no one truly understands quake magnitudes, and the inability of ANY wooden structure to withstand such a force, yet clearly they are standing.
I think Japan lied after a large quake… but not a 9.0.
Nothing shown, especially nightime photos of fires will show me otherwise, since this all happened during the daytime hours.
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Sorry, keystroke error…"Anne"
Chill, I just asked a question no one can answer satisfactorily. Too many put trust into "Unnamed Sources", "Scientists", "Govt. Officials".
Don't trust what your eyes see, only what we tell you to see.
Sorry to perturb anyone, except Kali. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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You are the one interjecting the emotions of shame and upset. You are the one trying to deflect from the scientific evidence and the evidence from pictures.
Your arguments smack of the brainwashing techniques used by the North Koreans against American prisoners. Those techniques have been exposed and will not work again.
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Sorry again. I have no shame and no upset to express on this issue. I am not North Korean, CIA, or any othe conspiratorial agency that you often refer to. I cannot use HAARp against you, nor turn GWEN towers towards your home.
Just an everyday average guy that asked a simple question, that you have vociferously tried to refute in the strongest possible terms, and have failed, as all do, because none and no one has been able to show the widespread devastation of a 9.0 quake. Again, period.
You know, even rednecks ask good questions now and then…
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there are times frox, since your arrival, that i wonder if you're just a noise generator.
you did a great job of churning up the sinkhole threads, and now that's a little quiet, you've found some new flight of fancy to pick on.
and at the same time, generating scores of trivial posts. funny, seems to be your modus operandi.
i mentioned above that the quake was off shore, not on land… you haven't replied to that. i can only gather you simply choose to ignore the obvious.
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I did respond sir, and you never noticed. Sure, I do stir it up sometimes by asking simple questions. That is how my Australian friend Mel does it too, and has a whole website, that has nothing to do with any of this. He is very politically active though. Ask for and I will give you his movie website and forum for free political views.
You are correct. I asked a question, and knew it would stir up trouble. But it would be nice to find an answer to it, so I asked it here as well. Not the first time I have asked this question.
I expected serious opposition and hoped actually to be proven wrong, but als, that has not been the case.
Since it seems I am not welcome, then you and Kali are correct. I should go back to the other threads so that all of you others can dominate the discussions here and just nod your heads together and always agree on everything…never doing anything more than attacking others to make your own egos safe from the depradations of the outside worldm and stay in the safe little, "Yessah Massuh" mindset that you all seem to subscribe to on these threads.
As once said famously, "All sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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I can understand that a juvenile to the website may think we pat each other on the back around here, but that's not always the case.
Your arguments are always welcome, sir. I'm just a little concerned at the scatering is causes in a thread. And also, in this case, it would seem the answer to your question is known.
But further, I ask what you're alluding to by doubting a 9 quake. Where are you trying to lead this dismissal, what's the alternate answer you're driving at?
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Freedomrox,
You are just a bare-faced liar. You are clearly no geologist. Here is the archive of the real-time "for sesimologists" feed from the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre
Note the huge number of confirming networks which all monitored the earthquake in real-time.
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php?yr=2011&view=690
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I'm wondering it he is Jim Stone whom no one ever heard of before 311 and who has a email address in Saudi Arabia. I'm sure that he will deny this.
As for never arguing…Well, we do all argue at times.
He just goes from one generality to another. And a real geologist would have his own published peer reviewed article to point to.
Then again, we do have Tavistock operators on all the alternative blogs doing research on how to control the population…
I think he should have said an amateur geologist, or a controversy stirring up person who is interested in controversy on only one earthquake–his claim to fame.
I think when they measure the depth of an earthquake out in the ocean, they take the depth from the floor bed and do not count all the ocean above which would cushion the effect on land far away.
I am going to look for the video which shows all the swaying of building in Tokyo during the earthquake. People had trouble crossing the street. Tokyo was, I think, almost 200 miles from the epicenter.
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hey anne, we found something we agree on, we do argue around here
happy new year 
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TY, Richard.
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Gravity waves seen from space:
Tohoku-Oki Earthquake and Tsunami Visible in Ionosphere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd__wlhkZ1M
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Information on the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake
“…Aftershocks (as of 30 April 2012)
Largest Aftershock: Magnitude 7.6 at 11 March 2011 15:15 JST (06:15 UTC)
Number: 6 (magnitude 7 or greater)
102 (magnitude 6 or greater)
671 (magnitude 5 or greater)
…”
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/2011_Earthquake/Information_on_2011_Earthquake.html
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This is a scientific discussion. It is not he said…
This earthquake was recorded on sensors across the US. And the simulation was posted on the enenews.com link I provided.
It has to do with the responsibility of the nuclear industry for this catastrophe. MOX fuel should never have been added to a reactor which had passed the time to be decommissioned. All the safety reports over the years should not have been falsified.
The reactor in Unit #4 was damaged even before it was ever used. It should not have been put in service.
Fukushima Daiichi was built on landfill and sedimentary rock and the earthquake fault studies were never published.
No nuclear facility will ever be safe and all nuclear facilities should be shut down immediately and no new facilities should ever be built ever.
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The damage in the pictures is from the 9.0 earthquake.
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Here is video of the earthquake before the tsunami:
“Footage: Capture of ground liquefaction occurring in Urayasu city, Chiba prefecture immediately after the great earthquake.
Video recorded from near Takasu facing Tokyo bay of Urayasu city.
Amid the aftershocks, shrubs on the pavement sway and grey liquids gradually flow out alongside the road that runs through the factory district.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TI1quH8IT_4
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Here is a scientific exploration of the trench and epicenter of the Great Tohoku earthquake:
EGU2012: Uncovering the Traces of the Great Tohoku Earthquake (PC4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwuVQsIRzWI
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Displacement Above the Hypocenter of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
“…The moment magnitude (Mw) = 9.0 2011 Tohoku-Oki mega-thrust earthquake occurred off the coast of northeastern Japan. Combining Global Positioning System (GPS) and acoustic data, we detected very large sea-floor movements associated with this event directly above the focal region. An area with more than 20 meters of horizontal displacement, that is, four times larger than those detected on land, stretches several tens of kilometers long along the trench; the largest amount reaches about 24 meters toward east-southeast just above the hypocenter. Furthermore, nearly 3 meters of vertical uplift occurred, contrary to observed terrestrial subsidence….”
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6036/1395.full
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A rupture model of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake
http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/EPS/abstract/6307/63070693.html
Coseismic and postseismic slip of the 2011 magnitude-9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21677648
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Return to the Japan Trench: New Subseafloor Observatory Begins Measurement of Frictional Heating by the 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake
“International team aboard Chikyu successfully completed installation of a temperature observatory in the borehole by reaching the fault that caused the Great East Japan Earthquake.
…”
http://www.iodp.org/return-to-the-japan-trench
Preliminary Report Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343/343T
http://publications.iodp.org/preliminary_report/343343T/343343tpr_4.htm
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Sources of shaking and flooding during the Tohoku-Oki earthquake: A mixture of rupture styles
“…We have been able to determine a source model of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake which explains the wide range of high quality data available for the earthquake, in particular ground motion from 10 s period to static, and the tsunami waveforms. A key aspect of our model is that the shallower and deeper portions of the rupture have fundamentally different characteristics. We propose that these differences are due to strong dynamic weakening process, possibly thermal pressurization, which produced large displacement rupture at shallow depth with little high frequency seismic radiation. The deeper rupture is characterized by relatively small fault displacement with relatively strong high frequency radiation, although we recognize that our current inversion approach has limited ability to resolve the details of these higher frequency features. However, we find that inclusion of 3-D propagation effects and enhancement of the high frequency features of the kinematic slip function provides an improved match to the observed ground motion response….”
http://tectonics.caltech.edu/publications/pdf/Wei_EPSL2012.pdf
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Has anyone checked the webcam after the earthquake?
I looked and it is blue, blue, blue to the left of the big crane.
It should be interesting to see what happens with the colors when night arrives.
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Earthquakes Rock !!! wow…stupid joke…..thread support vs thread threat? honest inquiry deserves analysis, not attack. where's the beef? instrumentation data vs. photos?? Hmmnn..
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The biggest effect on Japan from the 311 earthquake was not collapsed buildings, but the crushing effects on dependent auxiliary buildings adjacent to the Daiichii reactor buildings. The buildings survived because they were built on floating pads, but vital connecting pipework and electrical equipment was crushed between adjacent buildings as the pads moved far more laterally and vertically than design basis.
On retrospect the architects now realize the adjacent supporting buildings should have been built on the same floating foundation pads. There is no certainly, but if the architects had done that then the emergency cooling of reactor vessels and pools might have been possible even with loss of the NDGs and external power. Probably they still couldn't have stopped the meltdowns, but they would have been able to restore building water injection sooner and limited a lot of the major fires and radiation releases.
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Freedomrox wrote
"you may survive, but your brain would be near to mush for months until it could recover from the vibratory effects. These effects were recorded in the Alaska study after the 1964 Quake."
— Really? With peak accelerations of 0.2g your brain turns to mush does it? Well perhaps yours does. Can you provide a link to back the claim that survivors of the 1964 Alaska earthquake had their brains turned to mush? You can't. Because it is not true.
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Here's a 7.5 earthquake off the coast of Alaska that did no damage:
Jan 5, 2013
“An earthquake of 7.5 magnitude struck in the Pacific Ocean off southeastern Alaska on Saturday.
“The quake occurred about 60 miles southwest of Port Alexander at a depth of about 6 miles at 0858 GMT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which downgraded the magnitude from an initial 7.7….
“So far there had been no reports of damage from the earthquake, tsunami warning center scientist Bill Knight said….”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/05/us-quake-alaska-idUSBRE90404020130105
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