“Very shallow” M4.8 quake hits Fukushima region (MAP)

Published: January 12th, 2012 at 11:49 am ET
By ENENews
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Japan Meteorological Agency | Earthquake Information

00:26 JST 13 Jan 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M4.8
20:11 JST 12 Jan 2012 Fukushima-ken Hamadori M3.6

Published: January 12th, 2012 at 11:49 am ET
By ENENews
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10 comments to “Very shallow” M4.8 quake hits Fukushima region (MAP)

  • Granny M

    Quakes in the area have definately been increasing in intensity the past few days.

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  • goathead goathead

    I presume we should be seeing spikes and elevated levels of radioactivity now if not soon! One good earthquake should see to that! We may even get to witness a proper and full evacuation of the area even as far as Tokyo if the whole lot starts shifting, which ironically could be a good thing for the people! They won’t tolerate much more and this could be the straw that broke the camels back so to speak!!

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  • jackassrig

    There was some speculation that Fujiyama is going to erupt because of the swarm of Eq.

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  • Spectrometising Spectrometising

    Servers are down somewhere.Maybe a fibre-optic cable somewhere..I am here in Australia and have just had google disappear and Facebook and also Skype. But amazingly, Enenews is still here??
    Doesn’t look good if earthquakes are happening
    and this might be the result. Some of our data connections possibly handling a lot of data are severed in the ocean or whatnot.

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    • vivvi

      What part of oz are you in? I am in SE Qld. Interested if you have any readings in our country? Government here wouldn’t tell us if a meteor was heading for us, never mind a little radiatioon.

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      • a_beautiful_nightmare

        I’m also in SE Qld, and would love to see some readings – been searching for some Aus readings since this whole mess started last year but to no avail. Unfortunately budget at the moment won’t stretch to a counter. :(
        And I haven’t had any problems with google or Facebook dropping out.

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  • Spectrometising Spectrometising

    Seems like part of globe just got cut off..??…Breaker breaker, foxtrot tango charlie….!!…..hello!!

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  • CaptD CaptD

    Think of Fukushima’s corium(s) as a spark ply of focal point for yet more EQ activity!

    I also believe that Tokyo and Northern Japan will now see higher levels of radioactive pollution!

    See this for more:http://wp.me/pDwKM-1X1
    Notice in the comments that many helicopters are also flying over Tokyo and S. Korea!

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    • radegan

      Might work like fracking does. The Columbia U team reached the conclusion that fracking (a small explosion near the surface) “…triggers quakes already poised to occur…”. ‘Quakes poised to occur’ is a pretty good description of most of Japan. The small hydro/steam explosions under the surface create waves that dislodge faults poised to go. Can’t see it applying to any thing over 2.5 Richter or out more than a dozen km though.

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