5.3-MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN'S FUKUSHIMA

[Indi Guy]

Source: AP



DENVER (AP) — A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has hit the Japanese prefecture that is home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck early Friday at a depth of about 13 miles (22 kilometers) under Fukushima Prefecture and about 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue an alert.

The Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported that the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., observed no abnormality in radiation or equipment after the quake.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday ordered TEPCO to scrap all six reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and concentrate on tackling pressing issues like leaks of radioactive water.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/53-magnitude-earthquake-hits-japans-fukushima

[Tien1985]

1. K&r for exposure nt

[Mnemosyne]

2. Well, if TEPCO says it is fine... nt

[RobertEarl]

4. Here is a Tepco webcam link

You will need Windows Media Player to view.

This link will take you to a website focused on Fukushima. ENEnews.com forum wherein people like you discuss what is happening in real time at Fukushima.

http://enenews.com/forum-fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread-june-30-2012-present

[Mnemosyne]

11. Do you mean cynical people like me? Anyway, thanks for the link RobertEarl. nt

[TBF]

3. No worries - got my hurricane bag packed. nt

[jwirr]

5. Scrap all 6 reactors! for heavens sake WHERE? These are not just some piece of junk that we can

put in the garbage can and wait for the truck to pick them up. The entire world needs to start working on this problem because we have a world full of these plants and they mosly have spent rods laying around. And that includes the US.

[darkangel218]

8. And put it where??

[jwirr]

9. That is what I asked in my post?

[caseymoz]

10. Good question.

But we have to decommission these plants, stabilize the material and store it somehow where a release isn't likely.

The hardest ones will probably be the nuclear submarines.

Production of plutonium should be made a crime against humanity.

[Sunlei]

13. probably throw it in the sea or ship it 9,000 miles to the for profit nevada mt storage facility.

out of sight out of mind, or you wouldn't want to cost American jobs would you?


major

[Art_from_Ark]

6. A little explanation about this earthquake

Its epicenter was about 25 miles away from the Dai-ichi complex. Japanese sources show the magnitude as 5.8.
But what is important for determining the impact of an earthquake in Japan is not the magnitude, but the intensity. The intensity was greatest at Iwaki, registering a 5+ on the Japanese scale, enough to cause some minor damage. The intensity at the reactors was 5-, perhaps strong enough to knock a few books off of shelves. In my area, about 70 miles south of the epicenter, the intensity was 4, enough to knock some figurines off of my shelves.

On a side note, this was the most intense earthquake (intensity of 5 or greater) to be centered in the SE Fukushima area since the 5.4 earthquake of September 29, 2011.

http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/emergency/detail/00000002758298.html

[Iliyah]

7. Here's praying for you all.

And thanks for the information. I live in Los Angeles and am quite concerned about the radioactive leaks viva Pacific Ocean and air. I've read some of the earthquake history concerning Japan and California - having Nuclear Facilities which I truly wished we didn't have.

[Art_from_Ark]

19. I don't know what they were thinking when they built those nuclear power plants

But I think the two main selling points were "rural development" and "cheap, safe energy". As far as I know, Fukushima didn't have a history of massive earthquakes (although Fukui, where another concentration of nukes exists, had a major earthquake in 1948).

[tblue]

12. Mother Nature is Boss.

She is making her wishes very clear.

[Peace Patriot]

14. "no abnormality in radiation or equipment after the quake" (?!)

...the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., observed no abnormality in radiation or equipment after the quake. --from the OP

They wouldn't recognize an abnormality if it nuked them back to the Stone Age!

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I don't just want this earth-destroying nuclear power complex entombed or rocketed to Venus (is that possible?), I want ALL nuclear plants decommissioned and CONTAINED, and the bastards who have made fortunes off of them TO PAY FOR IT. All their wealth taken from them and used to solve this horrendous catastrophe and to prevent it ever happening again, anywhere.

We need to do more than save our one and only Matrix of Life, we need justice. Without justice, this is what happens. And it will happen again and again, until the human race is only a record of sounds and a plaque on Voyager out there in interstellar space, with no one to send its data back to.

Justice! Make them PAY for it!

[heaven05]

16. I like that Voyager line.

Truth will hit home hard, sometimes.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. A quake of that intensity is not going to cause a lot of damage.

Its intensity was 5- on the Japanese scale, meaning it might have been strong enough to knock a couple of books off of shelves and make people very nervous, but nothing major. I have experienced many earthquakes like that, especially in the past 2 1/2 years. The worst was a 6- quake that literally sent books flying off my shelves. The 5+ intensity that occurred in Iwaki, 25 miles from the reactors, was enough to make an elderly woman lose her balance, fall and sprain her wrist-- the only known injury (so far) resulting from the quake.

But it would be cool if those plants could be rocketed off to Venus, or the sun, or some other place far from Earth.

[heaven05]

15. it's just a matter of time

for ALL of us.

[Boom Sound 416]

17. K'd