12 comments to M5 quake hits Fukushima (VIDEO)

• bwoodfield

  January 10, 2013 at 2:38 pm Log in to Reply

  Is it my imagination or does the video get more grainy/pixalated shortly after the quake hits?
  

  
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  • jec

    January 10, 2013 at 2:52 pm Log in to Reply

    Not your imagination that was one big quake event, one of the most robust we have seen recently.

    Hey..MrTEPCOMAN…those cartoonish white coverups. Did you paint over over the Reactor 2 crane base on purpose? Or do you need more Paintshop training courses?
    

    
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• jec

  January 10, 2013 at 2:54 pm Log in to Reply

  And the base of the reactor area shown by the webcam..note the almost perfect STRAIGHT lines in the blacked out shrub and base area. Think they are hoping to hide the breakout emissions/fires as best they can. And the white outfitted workers as well.
  

  
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• Heart of the Rose

  January 10, 2013 at 3:11 pm Log in to Reply

  Wow..and the epicenter..16.25 km. from Fukushima.
  From Daini ..21.46 km.

  http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_critical&rid=297802
  

  
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  • Time Is Short

    January 10, 2013 at 3:23 pm Log in to Reply

    There can't be much left connected anywhere on both sites. How would you stop explosions at Daini? Complete venting to air and no cameras? Death threats against any workers there releasing information? A few dead to prove the point?

    SOP.
    

    
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  • anne

    January 10, 2013 at 7:31 pm Log in to Reply

    These were miles, not km.
    

    
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    • Heart of the Rose

      January 10, 2013 at 7:42 pm Log in to Reply

      Japan Fukushima Daini Npp 21.46 km
      Japan Fukushima Daiichi Npp 16.25 km

      http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_critical&rid=297802
      

      
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      • anne

        January 10, 2013 at 8:39 pm Log in to Reply

        If you use the coordinates from Japan Meteorological Assoc,
        hisz.rsoe.hu is off by even more.

        21:48 JST 10 Jan 2013 37.5N 141.5E 40 km 5.0
        http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20130110215249391-102148.html
        This earthquake is 26.2 mi (42.11 km) from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant

        http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
        Fukushima #1 37.422972N 141.032917E

        http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_index&rid=297802
        

        
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        • anne

          January 10, 2013 at 8:51 pm Log in to Reply

          hisz.rsoe says the earthquake is :
          25.24 km (15.68 miles) – of Namie, Fukushima, Japan

          http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_index&rid=297802

          They say they got their info. from USGS which says the earthquake is:
          25 km (15 miles) ENE of Namie, Japan

          Namie is 4.5 miles north of Fukushima Daiaichi.
          

          
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• bluerthanblu

  January 10, 2013 at 5:16 pm Log in to Reply

  Daini reactors are too close to quake action to exclude from a courtesy cam! Daini's R-4 has a cracked containment, now with extra damaged fuel onboard from Daichi R-4. Daichi's R-2 photo-patches can't hide gaseous flow above the reactors. Explosions can be spliced out of the cam video but gas flows increase, causing high pixellation on vids. The latest fuku1live vid, after the eQ, shows fire-like reflections near active rooftop emissions of R-1 to R-2.

  For the eQ vid above, what is that light zipping back and forth near the bottom (ground level?) @ 2:17 secs, some sort of emergency action? Also, does it seem that R-3 and R-4 are leaning to the right side, as though the ground may be sinking more? I traced the swarm of offshore quakes in last couple of weeks to find they moved sightly north by 1 deg. latitude and 3 degrees east, then 2 degrees back to the west- My take is that Honshu continues to be shoved by the Philippine Plate to the south and Amurian Plate from the west side. Further coastline subsidence of Daini and Daichi will only add to structural collapse of the reactor buildings. Is it impossible to shore up the buildings in a meaningful way? R4 frame is to hold the crane I gather but what about the sfp? C-sfp is smoking off/on (Thank You! Nuckelchen) with over 1700 fuel assemblies. Is coolant water lacking? Will it be this year, next year, when…arrgghh.
  

  
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  • moonshellblue

    January 10, 2013 at 7:11 pm Log in to Reply

    Yes looks like a flashlight or mutated lightning bug cuddling up to the warmth of corium, but all joking aside, I don't know but it is odd and thanks for pointing it out I initially saw it and thought it was pixelation but it's not.
    

    
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• anne

  January 10, 2013 at 7:31 pm Log in to Reply

  MAP: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40.php
  1. Magnitude
  4.5
  Date-Time
  • Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 21:26:20 UTC
  • Friday, January 11, 2013 at 07:26:20 AM at epicenter •
  Location
  37.345°N, 143.674°E
  Depth
  34.5 km (21.4 miles)
  Region
  OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

  Distances
  236 km (146 miles) E of Namie, Japan
  239 km (148 miles) ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan
  246 km (152 miles) ESE of Yamoto, Japan
  249 km (154 miles) E of Iwaki, Japan

  This earthquake is 145/1 mi (233.5 km) E from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
  http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
  Fukushima #1 37.422972N 141.032917E
  2. Magnitude
  4.9
  Date-Time
  • Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 12:48:21 UTC
  • Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 09:48:21 PM at epicenter
  Location
  37.561°N, 141.269°E
  Depth
  53.3 km (33.1 miles)
  Region
  NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
  Distances
  25 km (15 miles) ENE of Namie, Japan
  59 km (36 miles) SE of Marumori, Japan
  62 km (38 miles) SE of Kakuda, Japan
  62 km (38 miles) ENE of Funehiki, Japan
  This earthquake is 16.1 mi (25.87 km) NNE from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
  This earthquake is 21.5 mi (34.67 km) NE from Fukushima Daini (#2) Nuclear Power Plant
  

  
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