8.9 Quake hits off coast of Japan! Live Updates.

reply to post by RUDDD


If something like what you are describing had occurred, the entire coastline would have sheared off and bent underneath. Clearly this did not happen.

I'm no geological expert by any means but I believe the shift can be explained more by the edge of the plate that Japan is on was pushed diagonally upward and westward by the Pacific plate as it pushed it's way underneath. This is just a guess really, but doesn't involve the plate bending over on itself like you suggest.

thousands of survivors are cut off from aid and medical care man this is so sad , they are finially talking about the survivors, yesterday they said nothing. , they commented that the radiation makes for a dire
situation .................. well you think ??? these reporters are so dumb sometimes

Originally posted by captaintyinknots

Originally posted by sweetpeanc

Originally posted by captaintyinknots

Agency still rates Fukushima incident at 4 on scale of 1 to 7

3 Miles Island was a 3.

Nope, TMI was a 5.

en.wikipedia.org...

Nuclear agency says 3 Mile Island was rated a 3 on INES scale, and Chernobyl was rated 7

live.reuters.com...

not saying they are correct, just showing where i got the number

edit on 12-3-2011 by captaintyinknots because: (no reason given)

Not to continue the nuke talk here, but that's an error. Here's a publication by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which made the scale. TMI was a 5.

www.iaea.org...

Not sure if this has been posted or not.

11/09/01

11/03/11

add them up you get

22/12/12

reply to post by sweetpeanc


Thanks for the link, like I said, i was simply quoting from reuters.

Originally posted by bobrules
Not sure if this has been posted or not.

11/09/01

11/03/11

add them up you get

22/12/12

well the grand plan with the calender was a day off lol

fox news reporting that concerns of meltdown intensify as hundreads of aftershocks shake the area

and that there are survivors that are unable to get rescued because
they are in the area that has been off limits from the radiation! my god
cant they just get on suits or helicopters they are just leaving them there ?

# 1958: More on power supply problems: Tokyo Electric Power Company, one of Japan's major suppliers, has suggested it could carry out intentional power outages on a rotating basis to tackle the problem, Kyodo reports

reply to post by majesticgent


USGS maps and my own interpretation of what's going on seismically. Aside from the Eastern Coast which is still suffering from rebounds and aftershocks from the 8.9, the Western Coast STILL hasn't had a large magnitude quake between the 6.6/6.2 in sequence to the movement of the plate. And remember were only talking a swathe of 200 miles South-North, dropping 2 meters. Inland there may be cracks but not gaping chasms like something out of 2012, infact I doubt itd be even noticeable except along the low-lying areas which are now under the Ocean.

20.05 gmt live BBC News 24 (uk) tv presenter japan another tsunami as aftershocks on ways at height of 2metres.

Elf

reply to post by Kram09


umm mlb has deep pockets and if there gonan come help out hey why yell at them at least there offering how u think they get all those baseballs? the money they charge us to go to there games has made them very wealthy so yeah im glad to hear there giving a hand!

fox news reporter just said the japan goverment is downplaying the radiation because they want the rescue teams to get in there to get their people

Originally posted by GullibleUnderlord
fox news reporter just said the japan goverment is downplaying the radiation because they want the rescue teams to get in there to get their people

Japan has a long and noted history of downplaying their nuclear events.

reply to post by silo13


OMFG. Wow.

One thing to understand about the Japanese culture is the importance placed on "saving face" and honor. Honor is of the utmost importance. Many times, Japanese baseball games will end in ties because it's more honorable to allow your opponent to save face and not be humiliated. That may be at play here.

Please don't take this as racist or bigoted; I've studied Japanese culture quite a lot and have huge respect for it. It's just a cultural element that can be both wonderful and damaging.

reply to post by KilrathiLG


It was called a joke.

Anyway, when these things happen the first people you think of to be offering respone isn't the baseball league.

I wasn't meaning to offend.

reply to post by captaintyinknots


that is so sad . wth so the people going in our people are getting exposed to rescue the people who are already exposed and they are
not taking the precautions because they are downplaying the radiation
hopefully they have a way of detecting the radiation and will wear protective gear.

reply to post by captaintyinknots



I agree. I've been going through old news stories of previous nuclear accidents in Japan.

It seems this incident is being treated no different than the others. And it is much worse.

There has been plenty of warning since january the 9thwww.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Make up your own mind.

Outside of saving face in Japan, there is another aspect at play here: that is the future of nuclear energy as we know it. A incident like this is extremely damaging to those that want nuclear power to be more widespread. You can GUARANTEE there is pressure from the nuclear community to downplay this.