Japan - 8.9 Earthquake - Fukushima Meltdown

Japan earthquake factbox: Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Japan+earthquake+factbox+Entire+Japan+coast+shifted+metres+earth+axis/4425617/story.html

USGS Dr. Dave Applegate says the Japan earthquake ruptured a 180 mile long by 50 mile wide section of the Earth's crust.
Scientists from the United States Geological Service answered questions from the public this afternoon, with some startling revelations made.


* The first tsunami wave in Samoa was reportedly one foot tall, but the seventh wave was much larger, indicating coastal areas shoudl remain on tsunami advisory well after the first wave hits, even if that wave appears small.

* 100+ aftershocks have rated 5.0 magnitude or more in Japan since the initial shake.

* Earth's axis has reportedly shifted ten inches as a result of the quake, and Japan's coast is said to have permanently shifted 2.4 metres.

* The quake was 900 times stronger than the quake that hammered San Francisco in 1989.

* Aftershocks from the Peru earthquake of almost a year ago are still felt to this day.

* Honshu earthquake occurred on ocean floor of the Pacific plate, bumping 250 miles of coastline.

* Shaking was felt as far away as China.

* The Honshu quake was not as large as the 1964 Alaska earthquake, but was comparable to the recent Chile earthquake.

* Tsunami waves that hit California earlier today washed three onlookers out to sea. Two have been recovered.

* St Louis, Missouri media outlets report that city has moved an inch as a result of the quake.

* Waves from the ensuing tsunami reached 32 feet high.


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Japan+earthquake+factbox+Entire+Japan+coast+shifted+metres+earth+axis+moves+inches/4425617/story.html#ixzz1GLBDfvTV


Also:

http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/imageoftheday.php

This is a very interesting image showing the entire Pacific Ocean and the Tsunami wave heights.
 
The Fukashima Nuclear Reactor is venting radioactive steam after being damaged in the earthquake and tsunami. The backup power systems needed to cool the system have been damaged.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nuclear-expert-fukushima-has-24-hours-avoid-core-meltdown-scenario

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/la-sci-japan-quake-nuclear-20110312 said:
Ironically, the plant must use externally generated electricity to keep the coolant flowing through the pond and cooling towers. Otherwise, all the coolant will boil off, the fuel rods will melt and there is a possibility that radioactive material will escape from the reactor's containment dome.

"If they can't get adequate cooling to the core, it could be a Three Mile Island or worse," said nuclear physicist Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, which is working to improve the safety of nuclear power. The loss of coolant at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania for only 30 minutes led to a 50% meltdown of the core in that 1979 accident.

The electrical grid in Fukushima province was badly damaged by the tsunami, so power is not available from that source to cool the fuel rods. All reactors have diesel emergency generators to provide backup electricity, but apparently those at Fukushima No. 1 were damaged by the tsunami and are inoperable.

The reactor also has backup batteries to take over in such an event, and authorities were able to bring those on line and restore the flow of coolant after less than an hour. But those batteries have a life no more than about eight hours, according to nuclear expert Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, an organization working to "free the world from nuclear power and nuclear weapons."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. Air Force is assisting in flying in backup generators, and Japanese ground forces are also trucking generators and batteries to the site, according to media reports. Time is critical, according to experts. Once power to the cooling supply is interrupted, all the coolant could boil off in as little as an hour, Kamps said.
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http://www.news4jax.com/news/27166216/detail.html
Japan Quake Makes Day A Wee Bit Shorter
Earth's Rotation Sped Up Slightly After Temblor
SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

POSTED: Friday, March 11, 2011
UPDATED: 4:48 pm EST March 11, 2011
Kyodo/Reuters
WASHINGTON -- You won't notice it, but the day just got a tiny bit shorter because of Friday's giant earthquake off the coast of Japan.

NASA geophysicist Richard Gross calculated that Earth's rotation sped up by 1.6 microseconds. That's because of the shift in Earth's mass caused by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.

That change in rotation speed is slightly more than the one caused by last year's larger Chile earthquake. But 2004's bigger Sumatra earthquake caused a 6.8-microsecond shortening of the day.

The Japan quake is the fifth strongest since 1900.

Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
 
This is frightening :shock:
With Christchurch New Zealand a few weeks ago and now this. So much damage and life lost it is very sad.
On top of that to deal with the nuclear plant at Fukushima Daiichi cooling system failing, having to to release vapors to ease the pressure
and fire at another nuclear reactor site.
And then there might be the 9.7 at Tokyo in the future.
I don't know what to think anymore.
 
LMJ said:
I also had a dream about two or three nights ago, of an unusual little white car with red markings on it...almost like eyes where the headlights would be, floating down a river of water.

The next morning, my daughter told me of a dream she had of our backyard filled with water and waves and splashing up over the decking up to the doorway. I asked her if it came into the house and she said just a little and she put a towel down to wipe up the water.
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I, too, had a dream with an ocean theme. A group of people and I were on a holiday on a beach. We were flying along the coast in some type of blimp-like craft, but it was made explicitly clear that we were to keep to the coast and not fly over the water. I asked Laura if we could fly to the other side of our starting point (we were only allowed to fly to one direction and return) and she said it was okay as long as we had enough room to turn around without going too far over the water. I woke up and as I was making breakfast felt strong anxiety, but with no reason.
 
Just as a note in all of this, I found this thread again about earthquake safety, and it makes a lot of sense. Just in case anyone wants to brush up on their skills of earthquake survival:

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=4758.msg185915;topicseen#msg185915
 
Have been watching this devastation on television all day. My heart goes out to the people of Japan. To the fish, creep crawler's and to those life forms that could not run to safety. And to our mother, planet earth for the changes she is experiencing.

The biggest concern at the "moment" is that 5 out of the 50 nuclear power plants are in a state of emergency.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42025882/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Japan has implemented emergency preparedness that probably saved most of it's population.

To our forum members from Japan, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
 
on tv here in germany they tell right in this moment that the reactor has collapsed a cloud comes from the nuclear facility ! :O
 
Pashalis said:
on TV here in germany they tell right in this moment that the reactor has collapsed a cloud comes from the nuclear facility ! :O
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30 minutes ago, many TV channels reported an explosion on Fukushima Power Plant Unit 1 and then there was nothing, now they are saying it might be a leakage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNY9pYj6qoo&feature=player_embedded

I am not sure if this is a credible source .
 
Considering what this earthquake has done to the nuclear reactors near the earthquake, what if it had been a tunguska size meteor or greater? The nuclear industry is built on the basis of a stable society that evolves in a linear fashion. This was mentioned in another thread a few years ago http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=1512.0

The event yesterday in Japan just highlights this issue and also given the increasing amounts of meteors that have been seen in recent years it should cause some people to reconsider the wisdom of the nuclear industry. Life on planet earth does not fit the linear model.
 
they say that the japan goverment says that nuclear waste is coming out of facilty and that the situation is serious.
the people arround the facility should not leave their homes .
 
Approaching Infinity said:
LMJ said:
I also had a dream about two or three nights ago, of an unusual little white car with red markings on it...almost like eyes where the headlights would be, floating down a river of water.

The next morning, my daughter told me of a dream she had of our backyard filled with water and waves and splashing up over the decking up to the doorway. I asked her if it came into the house and she said just a little and she put a towel down to wipe up the water.
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I, too, had a dream with an ocean theme. A group of people and I were on a holiday on a beach. We were flying along the coast in some type of blimp-like craft, but it was made explicitly clear that we were to keep to the coast and not fly over the water. I asked Laura if we could fly to the other side of our starting point (we were only allowed to fly to one direction and return) and she said it was okay as long as we had enough room to turn around without going too far over the water. I woke up and as I was making breakfast felt strong anxiety, but with no reason.
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What I see now on Japan pictures correspond well to the dream I described here: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=19740.0 :(. It was not "the wave" but "a wave" although it's certainly correlated. Next time, if there is, I will try, while dreaming, to situate where the dream take place.


Aeneas said:
Considering what this earthquake has done to the nuclear reactors near the earthquake, what if it had been a tunguska size meteor or greater? The nuclear industry is built on the basis of a stable society that evolves in a linear fashion. This was mentioned in another thread a few years ago http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=1512.0

The event yesterday in Japan just highlights this issue and also given the increasing amounts of meteors that have been seen in recent years it should cause some people to reconsider the wisdom of the nuclear industry. Life on planet earth does not fit the linear model.
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Absolutely, it's in my mind since long. If a meteorites shower start, at the best nuclear centrals are shut off and we have no more electricity, at worst, if there is a hit, we have radiations throw all around the place.
 
Watching Sky news they say that Japanese authorities have given warnings of more tsunami from aftershocks.
Japan confirms officially there is now radiation leakage they are warning people near there to not go outside, drink water don't turn on air conditioners. This sounds bad.
they were taking about fuel rod might have melted and that toxins could leak into the water.
 
go2 said:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/225748-Huge-blast-at-Japan-nuclear-power-plant
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it seems that the facility didn't collapsed but rather than exploded .
 
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