9.0 in Japan
POSTED BY: canttakesky
UPDATED: Monday, August 24, 2026 01:23
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2 more quakes.
6.1 near Tonga, S. Pacific
6.6 West coast of Honshu (earlier today )
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I said I'd be okay with them if they weren't in earthquake zones that would eventually result in catastrophe, not that I'm out and out against nuclear power plants.
Just deal with the waste THERE instead of making me have to deal with it, you know? Honestly I prefer solar power because everyone and their monkey could handle making and wiring the stuff up, and wind power, and batteries, but you do what you have to.
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Seems the Pacific subduction zone is waking up with a vengeance. Christchurch a couple weeks ago, and now this. Lots of tension built up between plates, and now it's getting released in a series of incidents, instead of in one big one.
And word has come down that the main island of Japan is now 8 feet further to the east than it was yesterday.
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I suspect techtonic weapons by the Jew World Odor, warns the USAF director of Star Wars...
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One quake specialist ( forget his exact title ) made the interesting comment about the similarity between the quakes this year and last...
We had Haiti and Chili last year, followed by NZ and now Japan.
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Originally posted by Niki2:
Has anyone heard anything definitive about the two nuclear power plants having trouble in Japan? All afternoon they were worrying about one; it's usual coolant system power AND their back-up diesel had both failed; they evacuated and let off some slightly radioactive steam, but apparently that wasn't doing it and they were actually talkinb about a possible meltdown! They mentioned a second one, but I never got any details. I hope THOSE are going okay!!!
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
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I've just read they are on nuclear alert. I think this one is going to make Christchurch look insignificant. Just so shocking.
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Yeah, I thought this might be a possibility when New Zealand got hit. The whole thing is a system, when one goes, it increases tension on others until they go.
Chile keeps getting hits. Russia, Alaska, and California could also be hits. And that's not factoring in places that aren't on the Ring of Fire, but like I said, it's a system.
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Yeah, I thought this might be a possibility when New Zealand got hit. The whole thing is a system, when one goes, it increases tension on others until they go.
Chile keeps getting hits. Russia, Alaska, and California could also be hits. And that's not factoring in places that aren't on the Ring of Fire, but like I said, it's a system.
Last big quake in the pacific NW was some 300 yrs ago. ( The geologist who was talking about this wasn't including the Alaska quake from the 60's. Different fault system, I guess )
Based on the geologic frequency of such events, they're past due. One really big one could hit off the coast of WA / OR , at any time.
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Problem being, if SeaTac goes off, Mt. Ranier likely comes roaring back to life. It's actually not extinct, nor really "dormant" - it's still there, there's a huge cauldron underneath, and pressure has been building for quite some time. There are steam vent all over the mountain, and most of the Seattle/Tacoma area is actually built on old outflow areas, which would likely become NEW outflow areas.
And it does seem that when a big quake hits one part of a particular plate boundary, rather than serve as a pressure release valve, it seems to often INCREASE pressure on another part of the same plate, causing a kind of chain reaction all around the plate's edges, until the whole thing ends up moved, rotated, stretched, and/or compressed.
Edited to add: In addition to moving Japan's main island some eight feet eastward, the quake also had the affect of speeding up the Earth's rotation by 1.6 microseconds, according to Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Also, the evacuation order around Fukushima powerplant has been extended to 10km now, and the PM says they can't control the heat and are preparing for the worst.
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There was a short from Akira Kurosawa's Dreams called Mount Fuji in Red that seemed appropriate, but I couldn't bring myself to post it.
Dismay, horror, and despair. There aren't really any other words, and even those don't do justice for what is about to happen.
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