9.0 in Japan
POSTED BY: canttakesky
UPDATED: Monday, August 24, 2026 01:23
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12724953
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Both plants ( 5 reactors total ) are a total loss. There's partial meltdowns going on, as we speak and they're scrambling to minimize the damage. Though better built than Chernobyl, with an extra protective casing in the structure, it may not be enough to protect the environment.
Each nuclear power plant cost about 1 billion dollars to construct. Both are now totally useless.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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And things just got even more real...
Quote:
TOKYO -- Japan's weather agency says a volcano in southern Japan has resumed eruptions of ash and rocks as the country struggles with the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in the north.
The Meteorological Agency issued a warning Sunday saying that Shinmoedake volcano had resumed shooting out gas, boulders and ash after a couple weeks of inactivity.
The mountain is on the other side of Japan from the epicenter of Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami, which devastated much of the country's northeast coast.
It was unclear if the eruptions were linked to quake.
The Associated Press
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On March 19th, a full moon will occur at around the same time it reaches its closest point to Earth in recent history. Rare planetary events such as this are often associated with above-normal tides, an increase in volcanic activity and more frequent earthquakes, according to astronomers and yes…even some market analysts.
Oh boy....
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Wow. That's interesting, and it isn't even March 19 yet! Think we Californians will end up floating out to sea?
Actually, ours is different. While I THINK we have a couple of small "displacement" (can't remember the exact term) faults, where the plates slip up or down, ours are mostly the kind that slip parallel to each other. Much less likely to cause tsunami and not as dangerous (relatively speaking, that is...).
Yeah, I'm hearing about the volcano now, those poor people!!! Biggest earthquake in the history of their country, followed by hundreds of aftershocks (couple of dozen of which were over 6.0), biggest tsunami in their country, nuclear reactors melting down, and a volcano!! If the volcano and ‘quake aren’t related, I’ll eat my hat! I think they get the prize for the "most disasters in one month", don't you?
The Japanese GOVERNMENT is saying that the nuclear plant--the one that had the walls around it cave in--is going to be okay. Dunno how much I believe that... They evacuated and are giving iodine to everyone, but who knows? The other one seems to be hanging in there, too; we'll see what the future brings.
Japan's karma ain't too good these days it would seem...
I haven’t heard it go past 8.9...where did you hear/read that? But yes, they are a total loss, and apparently Japan relies more on nuclear more than any other country. From what I hear, once they start using salt water to cool them (as a desperate measure), they’re pretty much destroyed. Like they don’t have enough power problems already!!! My heart sure goes out to them.
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By the way, I forgot to mention before: Down on the Peninsula, we have SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator located guess where? Right ACROSS the San Andrease fault! Talk about putting stupid things near earthquake zones...several hospitals and schools are located right on it, too.
We're a strange little species...
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Seismologists think that another major after shock is inevitable, about 80% of the strength of the initial quake.
Big shocks have already happened, but they're expecting even bigger. Might not happen, of course, but when you're dealing w/ forces on this level...
Did this quake release enough energy for a while, to keep things a bit stable? Or did it realign the plates somewhere else, and what was some what held in check, is now on the verge of yet another major release.
Time will tell.
And yes, we are a strange little species. Capable of screwing things up for us, to some degree, but nature is always there to bitch slap mankind, and remind us all how insignificant and puny we are on the grand scale.
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Niki: Strike-slip faults.
All faults have displacement. The other two are normal faults and thrust faults.
...One of my friends is going to Japan on Wednesday. Not related to the earthquake, this was a teaching thing they set up a while back. >_> I have concerns.
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