Major Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan

[HKS racer]

I fail to see exactly how that's going to happen.

They told this in tv news this evening, I don't know exactly how it works, just hoping things changes in the next few days and someone find a way to cold that reactor down.

 

[Dominator]

A toxic cloud comming to Europe? Is that already confirmed?

 

[PeterJB]

A toxic cloud comming to Europe? Is that already confirmed?

If their is I can't imagine it would be particularly potent since Chernobyl (for the UK at least) wasn't and their was more radiation travelling a shorter distance.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Plus the wind and/or jet stream goes to the East, so I would think the USA would be more worried than anyone else. (I'm not)

 

[mohammad]

whatever happens to us humans is out fault most of the times ..
DAMN NUCLEAR

 

[Morrac32]

Plus the wind and/or jet stream goes to the East, so I would think the USA would be more worried than anyone else. (I'm not)

Everyone break out the Fallout games and study up! I for one welcome our new Super Mutant leaders.

 

[KWZX10]

Today news was speaking about a big toxic cloud that will reach Europe in about 15 days. If this situation will be comfirmed we are ALL in some deep s***.

(OT all the world seems to asking themeslves about nuclear only my stupid idiotic country stated "we can't go back from our decisions, we are ready for nuclear" the cliche Italy = mafia seems to be quite true at the moment http://www.tg1.rai.it/dl/tg1/2010/articoli/ContentItem-e50c9cf1-c21e-421a-b72b-dcc48f21f3db.html /OT)

Lol, absolutely. In tv she said "we're going to use 3d generation central, more safe than averything in japan"... nonsense, even an house isn't safe here, they want money, who cares if people can die. 👎
Remember the earthquake at L'Aquila, disorganization at his best...imagine them with a problem in a nuclear plant
"Ready" yes, to fail.

About this cloud ehm... not good...but i don't think is nothing to worry too much.

 

[G.T.Ace]

#
2152: AFP is reporting a new fire at the number four reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

 

[Griffith500]

There was a link offered to a (translated Japanese) technical summary of the earthquake and resulting Tsunami, but when I checked it it was all a bit dry. Well, it's been updated with lots of pictures and animations and diagrams and such, all a bit higgledy-piggeldy, but there's some interesting stuff in there.
Check it out here.

It's fascinating looking at the seismograph readings before, during and after the 9.0. They've been getting a steady stream of fairly potent quakes since the big one, and there was of course little "warning" in the form of fore-shocks. The before / after comparison in that respect is striking.


Japan had been expecting somewhere around a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the area, based on a forty year cycle. At the same time, there is evidence of large earthquakes around 8.5 on an 800 to 1100 year cycle over the last 3000 years (ascertained by dating the distribution of deposits of sand in the Sendai plain), the latest one being well "overdue" - possibly until now. I wonder if there really is anything in this regularity. Oh, apparently the BBC have beaten me to it.

Also, some kind soul has been plotting the output from a "Geiger counter" (or similar device) over the last 15 hours somewhere in Tokyo. Find that here.

 

[Lambob]

Are we just a grand scale of nature itself? 1 lone sperm (out of billions?) fertilizes a human egg, and a miracle happens, fusion occurs the egg splits and forms new gene.

Is our earth too, hatching? Seems like we nutjobs have been drilling at our earth's crust for about 100 years.

 

[G.T.Ace]

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ガイガーカウンタ

Geiger counter shows more radiation than before, looks like it's constantly rising (see also the link from Griffith500 above).

 

[Alex.]

Now we have a fire at Fukushima reactor 4.

 

[G.T.Ace]

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2235: Tepco spokesman Hajimi Motujuku says the fire at reactor four is in the outer housing of the containment vessel. Its cause is not yet known, AP reports.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Oh for crying out loud.. Haven't they suffered enough already? At this rate, Japan will glow in the dark for next 20 years..

 

[G.T.Ace]

#
2320: The Japanese government is now saying the fire in reactor 4 is "under control", according to the AFP news agency.

The Geiger counter is showing less radiation again and it seems to fall pretty quickly.
How's the wind direction? Any infos?

 

[Matty]

TBH, I really feel sorry for Japan because since the earthquake (And tsunami but for what I'm about to SAY WRITE type it is quite irrelevant.) there has been atleast if not more 100 earthquakes off or near the east coast of Hondsu which I believe to be near Fukushima all above 4.5 on the Rictor Scale.

Just a irrelevant note here, but the female translator on Sky News is not a good translator

 

[Mario2Lopez]

Can anyone confirm this. I just heard Japan is in Level 6, from the Mexican media. They are saying the place is highly radioactive now..

http://noticierostelevisa.esmas.com...tral-fukushima-alcanza-nivel-6-alerta-nuclear

 

[G.T.Ace]

France rates it as a 6 on the INES, the plant itself has a high level of radiation, harmful for the human body. The workers, who still try to pump water in the reactors are risking their lifes it seems. The radiation seems to be "dangerous" in an area of 20 km around the plant, people were told to stay inside in a radius of 30 km.

 

[terminator363]

I'm on the west coast of North America and my family is freaking out, they say that we can only eat stuff in cans etc.

As much as this is terrible I had to laugh at my family as they are so paranoid.

Let's hope it doesn't get any worse.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I'm on the west coast of North America and my family is freaking out, they say that we can only eat stuff in cans etc.

Hawaii has reported no abnormal increases in radiation, and prevailing winds seem to be pushing it south and west. You should be fairly safe. And if radiation should approach the western seaboard of North America, it will probably be quite dispersed. If does, after all, have to cross the single widest body of water on the face of the planet. I'd say the odds of eating something contaminated enough to cause health problems are fairly low and will remain that way. Look at the dispersal patterns from Chernobyl - it was only the immediate area that was affected enough to prompt anyone to avoid fresh produce.

 

[CodeRedR51]

As much as this is terrible I had to laugh at my family as they are so paranoid.

Yeah no reason to freak out over here just yet. Everyone I know hasn't said anything about it.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

You'll know if and when there is reason for concern - the government will say something.

 

[Azuremen]

I'm on the west coast of North America and my family is freaking out, they say that we can only eat stuff in cans etc.

As much as this is terrible I had to laugh at my family as they are so paranoid.

Let's hope it doesn't get any worse.

lmao

You'll know if and when there is reason for concern - the government will say something.

Hardly a sound solution. The government will either say something long before you actually have to worry (typical over reaction) or they will wait on it to try to reduce mass panic.

 

[a6m5]

Just wanted to share another relief fund I came across while watching a ball game:

MercyCorps

This one's Oregon based.

 

[HumanDestroyah]

Came across this video on www.abovetopsecret.com

 

[chances14]

You'll know if and when there is reason for concern - the government will say something.

government is the last thing you want to listen to. they will always underplay everything to reduce panic

 

[prisonermonkeys]

The "Fukushima Fifty" - the last remaining workers at the plant - have abandoned the facility. It is now completely unmanned.

government is the last thing you want to listen to. they will always underplay everything to reduce panic

I could understand that if maybe you were talking about Japan or China. But America is on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean. Any radiation coming from Japan has to travel a hell of a long way. Radiation doesn't work like a swarm of locusts, always descending on one place together, and I don't understand why people seem to think there is a nuclear bullet with their name on it when all indications show the radiation is travelling in the opposite direction. There are thousands of kilometres between Japan and North America, which gives the radiation plenty of distance to dsperse. So if they say you're more likely to be exposed to more raditiona getting your chest X-rayed, they're probably right.

 

[sanmusa]

Here's a good site showing all sorts of info on the quake and the looming nuclear disaster: https://sites.google.com/site/nippon31111/

 

[DK]

Speaking of panic, some of my country's tabloids have already started asking if the radiation is going to reach Ireland. I can only at their paranoia.

 

[alexleighton]

Radiation seems to awake a fear in people like nothing else.. I mean sure, you want to stay away from dangerous levels of it but nobody seems to be doing anything to axe the feeling that radioactivity is some monster that will break into your house and devour your daughters before coming into your bedroom and giving you a vasectomy...