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  • Location: Chevening Kent
  • Location: Chevening Kent

How serious is this cooling water problem at the nuclear power plant? Are the media playing it down as pressure rising in the core is not good and neither is a controlled release of radioactive vapour into the atmosphere?

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  • Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, 68.7m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Humid Continental Climate (Dfa / Dfb)
  • Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, 68.7m ASL

Any one else think this could co inside with the luner perigee?

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  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sunny , cold and snowy, thunderstorms
  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset

UPDATE

BBC saying a earthquake of 6.6 been reported near Tokyo @ 19.08 GMT

LO

Location is has now been confirmed as the NW region of Japan NOT Tokyo.

That quake was only at a epth of 1km as well. That would cause as much damage as the one that hit New Zealand.

109 quakes since the 8.9 this morning in and around Japan, 19 off those over 6 in Magnitude.

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  • Location: South Kyme, Lincolnshire
  • Location: South Kyme, Lincolnshire

That quake was only at a epth of 1km as well. That would cause as much damage as the one that hit New Zealand.

109 quakes since the 8.9 this morning in and around Japan, 19 off those over 6 in Magnitude.

According to USGS as of 2018 GMT there have been 142 quakes on or around Japan this week.

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  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sunny , cold and snowy, thunderstorms
  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset

According to USGS as of 2018 GMT there have been 141 Earthquakes on or around Japan today.

I should have said greater than mag 4

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
  • Weather Preferences: Any Extreme
  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield

Any one else think this could co inside with the luner perigee?

Nope see this http://bigthink.com/blogs/eruptions/

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  • Location: South Kyme, Lincolnshire
  • Location: South Kyme, Lincolnshire

6.3Date-Time

  • Friday, March 11, 2011 at 20:11:22 UTC
  • Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 05:11:22 AM at epicenter
Location39.025°N, 142.645°EDepth8.7 km (5.4 miles) set by location programRegionNEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPANDistances
  • 151 km (94 miles) ESE (120°) from Morioka, Honshu, Japan
  • 176 km (109 miles) ENE (60°) from Sendai, Honshu, Japan
  • 191 km (119 miles) SSE (149°) from Hachinohe, Honshu, Japan
  • 453 km (281 miles) NE (34°) from TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertaintyhorizontal +/- 13.8 km (8.6 miles); depth fixed by location programParametersNST=476, Nph=479, Dmin=335.1 km, Rmss=0.63 sec, Gp= 18°,

M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9Source

Event IDusc0001z5z
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  • Location: Napton on the Hill Warwickshire 500ft
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and heatwave
  • Location: Napton on the Hill Warwickshire 500ft

Interesting site.

Any links / reasons why the sunami wasn't as bad on coasts around the pacfic rim ?

Is it disance or more variables ?

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  • Location: South Kyme, Lincolnshire
  • Location: South Kyme, Lincolnshire

Interesting site.

Any links / reasons why the sunami wasn't as bad on coasts around the pacfic rim ?

Is it disance or more variables ?

Im not a scientist however it may have been that the energy was more directed toward Japan as the Pacific plate drove under the plate Japan sits on.

LO

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
  • Weather Preferences: Any Extreme
  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield

Evcat extended from 2.5km to 10km around the Nuclear power plant with the cooling problem. Doesn't sound good. Also the location being on the coast isn't really a good idea.

Latest

* Four trains are missing along the coast, says Japan Railways; and a ship carrying 100 people was swept away

* Fire has engulfed swathes of coastland, including homes and buildings, at Kesennuma city in Miyagi

* A major explosion hit a petrochemical plant in Sendai; further south a huge blaze swept an oil refinery in Ichihara city, Chiba prefecture

* Some 1,800 homes are reported to have been destroyed in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture

* A dam burst in north-eastern Fukushima prefecture, sweeping away homes, Kyodo news agency reports

* At least 20 people were injured in Tokyo when the roof of a hall collapsed on to a graduation ceremony

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

Interesting site.

Any links / reasons why the sunami wasn't as bad on coasts around the pacfic rim ?

Is it disance or more variables ?

There are umpteen variables such as the orientation of the fault and the depth/shallowness of the sea just before it hits land, i.e. if you've got two similar land masses at equal distances from the epicentre, the one at right angles to the fault will in general get hit far worse than one in line with it.

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  • Location: South Kyme, Lincolnshire
  • Location: South Kyme, Lincolnshire

Its all gone quiet on the quake front with no action recorded in the last half hour, makes you wonder if there are two possibilities here

1. its ended like it started

2. some thing big is about to kick off again.

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  • Location: Morley Leeds (West Yorkshire) 166m
  • Location: Morley Leeds (West Yorkshire) 166m

Radiation at the nuclear plan now over 1000 the normal level!!

What would happen if it blew?

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
  • Weather Preferences: Any Extreme
  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield

Radiation at the nuclear plan now over 1000 the normal level!!

What would happen if it blew?

Well they've evacuated a six mile radius so hopefully not a lot more injuries. They'll probably be a review of safety and location of plants.

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  • Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Altitude: 189 m, Density Altitude: 6 m
  • Weather Preferences: Tropical Cyclone, Blizzard, Thunderstorm, Freezing Cold Day and Heat Wave.
  • Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Altitude: 189 m, Density Altitude: 6 m

Can someone explain to me why the tsunami did not create problems in the western America?

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  • Location: Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex 30Mtr ASL
  • Weather Preferences: snowy or sunny but not too hot!
  • Location: Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex 30Mtr ASL

On our football club's fans forum a report this morning from one of the fans who lives in Tokyo. Thankfully he and his relations are safe

http://chelmsfordcitysoapbox84887.yuku.com/topic/10613/All-Shook-Up

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
  • Weather Preferences: Any Extreme
  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield

Can someone explain to me why the tsunami did not create problems in the western America?

It did check to the beeb. There's also conflicting records like from Hawaii where it was reported that the tide was no higher than normal then said lower areas received flooding. Check live updates on the beeb

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  • Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Altitude: 189 m, Density Altitude: 6 m
  • Weather Preferences: Tropical Cyclone, Blizzard, Thunderstorm, Freezing Cold Day and Heat Wave.
  • Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Altitude: 189 m, Density Altitude: 6 m

It did check to the beeb. There's also conflicting records like from Hawaii where it was reported that the tide was no higher than normal then said lower areas received flooding. Check live updates on the beeb

Thank you. Where I can check live updates on the beeb? link?

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  • Location: Aldborough, North Norfolk
  • Location: Aldborough, North Norfolk

Interesting site.

Any links / reasons why the sunami wasn't as bad on coasts around the pacfic rim ?

Is it disance or more variables ?

Biggest variable is the fact it's a wave, so the further from the epicentre the weaker it is, and also anything that affects normal propagation of the wave, which would stop it spreading like a ripple on a pond, means that you have a something called an "interference pattern" set up, in some areas the wave cancels itself out, in some places it doubles, or even triples in strength. Very scarey

It did check to the beeb. There's also conflicting records like from Hawaii where it was reported that the tide was no higher than normal then said lower areas received flooding. Check live updates on the beeb

Same applies, really, huge distances and interference patterns

Link

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

Can someone explain to me why the tsunami did not create problems in the western America?

Distance, mainly.

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  • Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Altitude: 189 m, Density Altitude: 6 m
  • Weather Preferences: Tropical Cyclone, Blizzard, Thunderstorm, Freezing Cold Day and Heat Wave.
  • Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Altitude: 189 m, Density Altitude: 6 m

Nimbostratu. Thank you.

Distance, mainly.

Yes, but the distance is already known. So, why are the countries of Western America concerned?

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