Published: June 22nd, 2011 at 6:45 pm ET
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Japan issues tsunami advisory after strong 6.7-magnitude quake, Daily Telegraph, June 23, 2011:
A TSUNAMI advisory was issued for part of Japan’s north-east coast after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck offshore this morning local time, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The meteorological agency said today the latest jolt hit at 6.51am (7.51am AEST) about 50km off the east coast of Miyako, Iwate prefecture, at a depth of 20km in the Pacific. [...]
h/t Willie
Published: June 22nd, 2011 at 6:45 pm ET
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cnn: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/22/japan.quake/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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My cable NHK feed has gone dead…
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All we can do is pray as they are doing !
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MAP !
http://theextinctionprotocol.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/usgs-japan1.gif?w=439&h=499
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NHK reports that the tsunami warning has been lifted as of 7:45 am local time.
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Here is the link. Check the ‘News Flash” at the top of the page.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/index.html
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milk and cheese, could you read the simulation of the spread of radiation across the U.S. on the 18th of March? If I enlarged the picture it was too fuzzy to read. Also a lot of it was in Japanese. Clearly, we were hammered.
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I read all the radiation-spread reports from the beginning, and the entire Northern Hemisphere is contaminated, but I am not sure with what. Only certain types of radiation were shown, and the figures are given in such technical measurements that I can’t make comparisions. But no amount of radiation is ‘safe’.
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One more tsunami and its game over for all of us.
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I don’t think it would matter much. Stick a fork in us now, we’re done but radiated before hand, like a lean pork chop.
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Any nearby Honshu EQ over 6 shakes the videocam; did anyone see any camera-shake, and then check http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php for confirmation, or exclusion, like I suggested?
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Yes, I saw the JNN camera shaking.
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Next time you see camera-shake, note the time and go to the usgs. If you confirm the shake and a 6.5 plus quake, post it, then watch for the new thread to appear and be ready with your new post giving the details.
An announcement of “NEW THREAD” would help all of us get on the right page.
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This 6.7 Honshu quake came after the conventional EQ ‘window’ was over, which was, givertake, from a few days before perigee 6/12, to a few days after both the full moon 6-15 and the 7 foot plus high tides 6-13,14,15.
The window 3 days before the new moon (strongest pull with moon and sun on the same side of earth) 7-1, to 3 days after perigee 7-7, is the more likely window I watch, so for this month, from 6-28 to 7-10, but in this cycle, no big tides like last month.
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If you click this link, it’ll take you to a page of links.
Clicking the first one
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/eqs7day-age.kmz
[copied by right-clicking the link itself]
gives you what is called a KMZ file (which Google Earth uses).
It updates every five (5) minutes and displays itself with beautiful yellow and brown dots of various[programmed] sizes depending on the severity of the earthquake [EQ].
Downside is you have [or should] have Google Earth always running in addition to your browser [Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.]—which takes RAM memory (but still worth doing).
The earthquakes are an important part of the situation at Fukushima—including the postulated 8.0 Magnitude[M] expected to follow as an aftershock to the last big one.
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To use the file it is best (I think) to open Google Earth first.
1. Open Google Earth
2. Click on File/Open…
3. Find the KMZ file on your hard drive
4. Click Open or press Enter/Return
You might be able to drag the file on top of an open Google Earth window—haven’t tried it yet.
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Pu239, thanks,
That’s pretty amazing! When I clicked it downloaded a file. Some parts of Google Earth are blocked on my computer which I left blocked. I could still see everything. I could move the map to Japan and see info. with my mouse.
Thanks again!
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I do have a crazy idea. Try and get YouTube musicians, actors, playrights, street performers and other people to switch their main page to a Fukushima video.
That is, everyone has to do a Fukushima video.
If it hits YouTube in numbers (like Justin Bieber) it’ll start getting into everyone’s brains.
We may have to become Paul Revere and hop on the horse!
[just a thought]
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Being a flute player, my latest (for what it’s worth) is here:
Tribute to Japan (Fukushima Disaster)
http://www.youtube.com/user/jazzflutist?feature=mhum#p/u
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We need a “Enenews Got Talent” page !
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I figure YouTube musician-artiste types might have a way of getting the message out in a different way.
Kinda like “Blowin in the Wind”—where all the particulates are coming from:
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
Yes, ‘n’ how many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head,
And pretend that he just doesn’t see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
Yes, ‘n’ how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, ‘n’ how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, ‘n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
—————-
Note to braveboy: stay way from the brown acid.
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Japan industry panel: should resume full nuclear power generation
Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:25am GMT
TOKYO, June 22 (Reuters) – An advisory panel to Japan’s trade ministry on Wednesday pushed for a full restart of nuclear power generation in the country, warning of a hollowing out of industry and a 7.6 trillion yen ($95 billion) price tag if fears of power shortages linger.
Over three months after a massive earthquake and tsunami, workers are still trying to stabilise reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, nuclear capacity elsewhere remains offline and the country is questioning its reliance on atomic energy.
http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFL3E7HM11Q20110622
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LATEST EARTHQUAKE – JAPAN
Update time = Thu Jun 23 3:39:55 UTC 2011
MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 5.2 2011/06/22 22:16:56 -21.744 -179.068 554.3 FIJI REGION
MAP 6.7 2011/06/22 21:50:48 39.980 142.247 32.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.1 2011/06/22 20:43:48 37.612 144.329 10.6 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.2 2011/06/22 14:28:59 40.040 142.769 40.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.3 2011/06/22 13:57:31 -27.920 -66.501 163.4 CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA
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Might be nice if TEPCO can at least update us on progress shoring up the #4 Spent Fuel Pool in case of earthquakes.
If they have it secured, they should at least tell us. If not, then let’s get it fixed.
And so on …
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I keep asking this horribly ‘hypothetical’ question, but don’t ever get a well-thought out response. I realize that we’re all already exposed to some level of radiation (especially those of us on the west coast USA), but what exactly would be the response if we were to find that reactor 4 suddenly collapsed / exploded / got washed away. What exactly would that mean to us here? I think I’d truly panic if I saw #4 go down, but in reality would it be much worse than things are now? And would there even be anywhere left to run to?? Just wondering…and worrying.
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In my professional opinion we are in the midst of the worst man made disasters in history.
Though most of us are not presently feeling the consequences of this atrocity we will all become painfully aware of them in the months and years to come.
Health-wise, mitigating measures should be in place for you and your families, effective immediately. With over 25 years experience as a Naturopath, I can assure you that the epidemiological issues that we are about to face will be most grave.
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well it would impact the entire site. likely forcing the cooling efforts on the other 6 reactors, to stop entirely…
The rest would be the last pages of history ever written. Global famine, contamination, and catastrophe…
Thats the first thing that comes to mind…
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How much worse or different would a collapse of the reactor four building with all its stored fuel rods on the roof be, compared to where we are now with plutonium thrown and dispersed over a large area, three reactors in meltdown, and possibly/likely a lot of fuel rods already bulldozed into the Pacific?
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it would be significantly worse. The nuclear fuel would be completely free of moderated containment.
You have to realize that they are submerging the fuel inside the reactors with 5 tons of water an hour intake (in some cases more). That 5 tons of water sitting 6 feet above the fuel racks is what separates the environment from the releases of radiation…
If the fuel pool collapsed, 38 years of nuclear spent fuel would lay on the ground. It would be impossible to contain, In the same respect, It would kill anyone or thing that approached it. The fuel would lay inside the damaged reactors destroyed containment building, quickly swiveling on and down throughout the buildings floors,
The radiation that would be released would multiply by the thousands if not millions and trillions…
We would be seeing extremely higher radiation levels everywhere across the globe. Consider that it would make the situation 100′s of times worse; and the implications that would follow would only further hamper tepco’s already impossible plans for containment…
Operators would be crippled if they were exposed to the radiation from any distance of 15ft or closer. The steam on site temporarily would be blinding. The temperature outside from the gasses being released alone would be enough to make the outside temperature climb 5 degrees or more…
After that alone, we would wait and watch as each of the reactors begins heating up, to 2000C or more, while tepco would be forced to operate from a distance of 2 miles away or greater.
If that happens. Know this…
The world will never be the same again…
ever ever ever ever ever…..
Emmy.
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Regardless of whether #4′s SFP collapses all I can think is ;
Maybe the 2012ers are right!
Scary thought, huh?
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+1
Great question, Calimom.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGnKN7NzYik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X01om7oUtEs
OK first video is amazing. Second video backs up the plume.
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can i ask a question? what if someone hooks up with someone coming from Japn, is it like dangerous? haha
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Very funny indeed
/sarcasm off
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I think you’re all correct, which is quite disturbing. I can’t even put into words the fears that creep into my thoughts lately. I look at my two little girls, and wonder…well, we all know what I wonder. Such an awful thing we’ve done to our planet.
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Not “we”, but “they” did to our planet.
I was born the year they tested “The Bomb” at Alamagordo. I’ve marched, protested and supported the anti-nuclear movement my entire life. Please, don’t include me in that “we”. I’m sure many(most) of these posters feel the same way.
Take care of those kids and yourself.
I think I know how you must feel. I wish there was something I could do to help.
Peace
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CaliMom, anyone here who tells you what will happen if SFP at R4 collapses is guessing, at best. I suspect even the nuclear engineers would be at a loss, this is something well outside their usual experience or consideration.
For some reason even the regular ‘doomsdayers’ here fail to mention that this SFP not only contains old ‘dirty’ fuel, but relatively new ‘hot’ fuel from R4, which was shut down for maintenance. So this is a dangerous mix.
Hollywood have had us on the edge of our seats with dirty briefcase bombs, stolen nuclear weapons, and even reactor meltdowns. This SFP is probably a level above any of those, if the building collapses or the pool cooling effort fails. That could affect all our children, so I’m a little sickened by the smug delivery of predictions from some of the self proclaimed nuclear ‘experts’. Nobody knows.
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In retrospect, would the building of a new in-the-ground SFP after 3/11 to hold the fuel safely have been a good idea?
Was there a physical reason why that couldn’t have been done, or was it just incompetence and greed?
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They may be guessing BUT, if the SFP does collapse it can be said most definately things will NOT be made better, and things will NOT stay the same, they can only get worse.
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Posted a picture that shows the enormous crane on TBS / JNN. The crane is not only above reactor buildings but above the chimneys as well. Take a look at TBS / JNN, its still there and for those that cant follow that stream here is a posted picture of it. http://radioactive.eu.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223:is-tepco-dumping-fuel-rods-in-the-sea&catid=38:fp-rokstories&Itemid=212
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Scroll down… its the 2nd not 1st picture!
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Earthquakes hit Japan all the time. It is only a matter of time before the skeletal shells of the heavily damaged reactors fall down.
There is nothing you can do to prevent it and no, it won’t help to run away to South America.
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