M4.3 quake hits near Fukushima within past hour — Strongest intensity felt at monitoring post 14km from plant

Published: January 24th, 2012 at 1:25 pm ET
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Title: Earthquake Information
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency
Date: Jan 24, 2012 at 12:35 ET

02:35 JST 25 Jan 2012 36.7N 141.2E 30 km 4.3 Ibaraki-ken Oki

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The blue dot below is the monitoring post at Naraha-machi Kitada, about 14 km south of Fukushima Daiichi:

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Published: January 24th, 2012 at 1:25 pm ET
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21 comments to M4.3 quake hits near Fukushima within past hour — Strongest intensity felt at monitoring post 14km from plant

  • bfly

    Look at the latest fukushima diary post!


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  • bleep_hits_blades

    alert!SOPA&PIPA=the Undead

    This might seem off-subject but actually it isn’t as we all depend on internet freedom for continued access to this website which has become a kind of ‘emotional support’ lifeline for me (and others I am sure) as well as a source of info that otherwise would not be readily available.

    http://www.infowars.com/sopa-and-pipa-fully-alive-and-a-new-bill-joins-them/


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    • aigeezer aigeezer

      SOPA, PIPA and the new OPEN (which means “closed”) are anything but off-topic. If they are implemented, we won’t be having these online discussions for long, or if we do it will be only at the pleasure of the US government.

      It’s really getting ugly out there.

      SHUT THEM ALL DOWN (Nukes of course, not the Internet) ;-)


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  • bleep_hits_blades

    @bfly – ty 4 that link!

    I have wondered about these repeated quakes under the Fukushima plant, because the initial 3/11 quake was not under the plants but out in the ocean. So, why would ALL the aftershocks – or almost all of them – be centered under the Fuku. nuclear power plants?

    Reading the comments under that post on Fuku Diary, one person asked if hydrogen explosions could be powerful enough to trigger quakes of such high magnitude, and it seemed like a good question to me – but being no geologist or expert in any of these fields, I really don’t have an opinion/theory and will watch this thread hoping for further discussion/information.

    Would be interesting to get Arnie Gundersen’s take on this possibility/suggestion.


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    • Anthony Anthony

      I recall the ‘expected’ aftershocks came wit a fury after 311 and I recall them beinv nowhere really close or centered near/at Fuku Daichii specifically. To my thinking something has shifted recently and these disturbances seem centered around the plant now…and its a fact the coriums are outside of containment so they for me become a likely factor to consider. I think WE here would be being simplistic in our thinking to underestmate the effects of loose multiple coriums on a mother of a fault line. My other concern since the start with runaway meltdown was the presence of extensive lavatubes also perhaps now in vicinity of said blobs. I think the dangerous effect of PRESSURE underground alone may be triggering these already active faults in nuclear processes we probably have never even seen before.


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  • bfly

    There seems to be a correlation between fracking and EQs.So could be be similiar ? After watching that video on fukushima diary . right after the quake you see flames.


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    • Hemisfear311 Hemisfear311

      Shaking the open BBQ, makes all the embers glow hot again, while a plume of hot sparks rise to the air.

      Tokyo might expect more spikes in their radiation readings.


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  • anne anne

    Earthquake 25 Jan 2012, 02:35 JST
    02:35 JST 25 Jan 2012 36.7N 141.2E 30 km 4.3 Ibaraki-ken Oki
    http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120125024016391-250235.html
    This earthquake is 50.8 mi (81.75 km) SSE from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
    This earthquake is 36.7 mi (59.00 km) from ENE Tokai Nuclear Power Plant
    This earthquake is 36.8 mi 59.28( km) from J-PARC
    http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
    Fukushima #1 37.422972N 141.032917E
    Tokai NPP 36°27′59″N 140°36′24″E
    J-PARC 36.4584988N 140.6081772E


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  • spockglowgreen spockglowgreen

    I’m no rocket scientist, nor nuclear engineer, but is it possible all this earthquake activity isn’t really earthquakes in the sense we are use to but perhaps underground criticalities and reactions due to China Syndrome?


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    • Alice Alice

      That’s floated to my mind on quite a few occasions but I successfully shoved it to the back recesses for the simple reason that not thinking about it allows me to continue functioning.

      ‘Else I’d become a blubbering basketcase.


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    • moonshellblue moonshellblue

      Yes I think it’s possible when the Japanese who live nearby say it feel different, etc. Thus perhaps it is the corium. Who knows for sure, it anyones guess.


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    • RichardPerry

      Yes I agree and would think the deeper the material is the higher the pressure causing larger and larger reactions. Maybe someone out there knows how large these explosion can get.


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  • StillJill StillJill

    Ding, ding, ding, ding,…give that man a prize!

    I mean it,…..only smart people can admit this REALITY! :-)


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  • spockglowgreen spockglowgreen

    Sheez, I sniffed that out right about the time 2 or 3 of these were “reported.”

    Stop calling them earthquakes, media hacks, it’s misleading.

    Stuff is blowing up underground. Maybe a gigantic crater will form and suck the whole damn complex underground and we can cover it with about 1 billion cubic meters of lead and boron.


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  • milk and cheese milk and cheese

    I asked a while back whether the expected hydrogen explosions might be staying underground, rather than blowing up at the surface. The flames seen at the foot of the towers in the recent camera shots reminds me disturbingly of Arnold Gundersen’s hydrogen experiment.


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  • moonshellblue moonshellblue

    You can view the earthquake? or hydrogen explosion and fire starts about 1:50ish as a small fire and then the shaking. So..on with the show http://youtu.be/uf6hcnQ1eTE


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  • moonshellblue moonshellblue

    BTW keep your eyes on the bottom of the second tower in front of Reactor 3 this is a fire no doubt about that and perhaps where some of the corium is located. Thanks Fukushima Diary.


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