Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast
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#2Can someone help me interpret the data?
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#3It is interesting that before Fukushima the common knowledge was that any amount of radiation is bad and may cause health issues. We can see how after the Fukushima this morphed into a little radiation may actually mobilize your immune system to protect the body from radiation-related illnesses like cancer.
Another thing is this - and I'm a right wing pig here if you'd like to call me that - USSR as bad as it was it took responsibility for the Charnobyl catastrophe. There was Army and the Government involvement on all levels to clear it up from day 0. In Japan years after the incident the Government is still finger pointing some CEO trying to operate that facility. I hate that because this is precisely one of these things that gives capitalism very bad name. And what is the Japanese Government there for? To come up with lies about how radiation is good for you now? How pathetic!
Re: Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast
#4"A U.S. Pacific tsunami warning center said there was no destructive widespread tsunami threat following the quake."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-japan-quake-idU...
"It was 6.2 miles deep, officials said, and hit at 3:10 a.m. Saturday local time and was felt 300 miles away in Tokyo.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a "yellow" warning Saturday morning, meaning a small tsunami could reach the coast at Fukushima, site of the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster.
There were no immediate reports of damage from the temblor, which Japanese authorities classified as a magnitude 6.8, Reuters reported. No irregularities were reported at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
A yellow warning is issued when a tsunami is not expected to exceed three feet, significantly smaller than the tsunami that hit the energy plant in March 2011. Residents in the coastal region of Fukushima Prefecture were being advised to move to higher ground.
No warning for the rest of the Pacific was posted by the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center after the quake."
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/25/21150222-73-ma...
Re: Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast
#5Can someone help me interpret the data?
Circa has pretty a decent synopsis: http://cir.ca/news/fukushima-earthquake-october-2013
Re: Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast
#6Can someone help me interpret the data?
Magnitude 6.8, felt as ~mag 4 on the mainland.
Re: Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast
#7Here's the USGS report:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000kn4n#...
M7.3 , offshore
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Re: Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast
#9It is interesting that before Fukushima the common knowledge was that any amount of radiation is bad and may cause health issues. We can see how after the Fukushima this morphed into a little radiation may actually mobilize your immune system to protect the body from radiation-related illnesses like cancer. Another thing is this - and I'm a right wing pig here if you'd like to call me that - USSR as bad as it was it…
japan still denies the atrocities of ww2 against american POWs, china, phillipines, etc, etc. in fact they kind of just gloss over the whole war. compare them to germany and the contrast is stark.
japan is not a cute fuzzy pet culture limited to anime and sushi. it's an insular island culture that's just as bad as anyone else in history. it's too bad it takes a full-blown nuclear disaster for people to realize this.
Re: Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast
#10It is interesting that before Fukushima the common knowledge was that any amount of radiation is bad and may cause health issues. We can see how after the Fukushima this morphed into a little radiation may actually mobilize your immune system to protect the body from radiation-related illnesses like cancer. Another thing is this - and I'm a right wing pig here if you'd like to call me that - USSR as bad as it was it…
> USSR as bad as it was it took responsibility for the Charnobyl catastrophe. There was Army and the Government involvement on all levels to clear it up from day 0. In Japan years after the incident the Government is still finger pointing some CEO trying to operate that facility.
To expand on this point, if Fukushima were Chernobyl and Japan the USSR, the Sarcophagus would have been completed on October 27th, of 2011. Two years ago.
(By no means is that structure a fine piece of engineering, but considering the constraints I find it hard to fault them for that.)