EQ Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant area ..

USGS

Magnitude 4.8
Date-Time

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 00:19:37 UTC
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 09:19:37 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 37.004°N, 141.183°E
Depth 14.7 km (9.1 miles)
Region NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances 26 km (16 miles) ESE of Iwaki, Japan
45 km (27 miles) ENE of Kitaibaraki, Japan
51 km (31 miles) NE of Takahagi, Japan
55 km (34 miles) SSE of Namie, Japan

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 12/11/2012 08:21 PM

let me be the first...







SO IT BEGINS...

Possibility one more strong EQ to come in Japan soon, before 4 days we had a M 7.3 ..

2012-12-07 08:18:23.0 37.92 N 144.02 E 30 7.3 OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 12/11/2012 08:33 PM

What Are The Consequences Of Siting A Nuclear Plant In a Seismically Active Area?

Gundersen: M7 quake likely caused damage to spent fuel racks at Fukushima Daiichi


The fuel racks are going to be damaged. What that means is the box of spaghetti is going to be dented.

So when they go in to try to pull the fuel out, they’re not going to be able to, some of that fuel is going to be stuck, like spaghetti stuck in a box.

An earthquake like this most recent one likely caused more damage, or it caused more crap to fall into the pool. And as particles fall into the pool again it’s going to change the friction that’s required to pull out this spaghetti in the box — to pull out the nuclear fuel.

I think what they’re going to see is they’ll go down with this long handle and try to grab the fuel on the top and if the fuel is undamaged and the rack is undamaged it slides out pretty easily. If the fuel is bent or if the rack is bent, it doesn’t. So what they can do is they can crank up the power and pull a little harder. The problem is that this is spent fuel so it’s brittle, and if they pull too hard they’re likely to snap the fuel and what that can mean is a gaseous release of radiation.

So that was a long prelude to answer your question, why are they building these roofs over the fuel pool? Is that they’re afraid that when they come to pull the nuclear fuel, they’re going to snap some of the bundles and they’re going to release radioactive gases.

Arnie podcast 12-8-12-12.mp3_.mp3 (MP3 Audio, 27.1 MB)

[link to www.fairewinds.org]


Murata ex JP ambassador, “Coolant system of reactor4 was broken 12/8~12/11, concrete base is terribly deteriorating.”

[link to fukushima-diary.com]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 12/12/2012 10:06 AM

This one was very close, fortunately now shallow EQ ..

2012-12-15 04:27:06.6 11min ago 37.71 N 140.70 E 84 5.3 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN

Magnitude M 5.3
Region NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Date time 2012-12-15 04:27:04.0 UTC
Location 37.55 N ; 141.06 E
Depth 55 km

Distances 80 km S Sendai (pop 1,037,562 ; local time 13:27:04.4 2012-12-15)
57 km SE Fukushima (pop 294,237 ; local time 13:27:04.4 2012-12-15)
8 km NE Namie (pop 21,866 ; local time 13:27:04.4 2012-12-15)

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

[link to static2.emsc.eu]

[link to geofon.gfz-potsdam.de]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 12/14/2012 11:57 PM

2012-12-17 18:46:12.3 14min ago 36.74 N 141.06 E 10 4.9 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

[link to www.jma.go.jp]

03:41 JST 19 Dec 2012 03:36 JST 19 Dec 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M 4.9 [link to www.jma.go.jp]

04:31 JST 20 Dec 2012 04:26 JST 20 Dec 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M 4.4 [link to www.jma.go.jp]

10:37 JST 21 Dec 2012 10:32 JST 21 Dec 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M 3.5 [link to www.jma.go.jp]

00:35 JST 21 Dec 2012 00:31 JST 21 Dec 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M 4.2 [link to www.jma.go.jp]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 12/21/2012 12:36 PM