Thursday, April 14, 2016

Earthquake News


Although the earthquake measured 6.4 on Japan's scale (gets confusing because Japan's scale is different than US scale I believe), residents reported significant "horizontal" shaking:
Level of earthquake 'never experienced before': Kumamoto residents. The Mainchi, April 14, 2016. http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160414/p2a/00m/0na/029000c

..."We were hit with a kind of horizontal shaking I've never felt before, throwing books and photographs off the shelves, which I could barely fend off. I heard my daughter screaming in the home. I'd never had such a terrible experience before," said a 76-year-old man in Kumamoto's Nishi Ward, who was sorting out materials in his study at the time the quake struck.
Netc.com is not showing elevated radiation readings in the area of the Genkai and Sendai plants, although there are not very many monitors available in those areas.

Indeed, the highest radiation readings being reported in Japan are in its northern terrain:


The plants are located south




 

3 comments:

  1. An interesting feature of our world is that you can be a very bad person doing very bad things and yet be treated very well in the public and by it. I am sure that a guy like Erdogen gets plenty of smiles and courtesies and of course the occasional bomb or death threat. The CEO of Monsanto, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, the list is endless. You can poison the environment and bring an early death to multitudes and still, you are Mr or Mrs or Ms Important and deserve special care. Sir Winston Churchill is a classic example of someone who did and said many atrocious things, and yet Americans view him as a Second World War hero. And we get the reverse: Dr Andrew Wakefield is an outstanding scientist and doctor--still the media refers to him as disgraced, discredited, etc. Well, the media is a collection of talented gossips. And spiteful ones who seem to delight in denigrating persons. Evidently the need for nuclear fuel is overwhelming for earthquake prone Japan to keep the plants going. I read at Enenews now that 70% of Japan has been contaminated. How much of the USA has been?

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  2. Realistically how much of Japan can be saved? Almost 130 million population--how many will die prematurely from radiation? I am still unclear as to the rapidity with which radiation can destroy a life. Cancer takes a while to germinate and flourish. Could half the population be sick in 20 years? Meanwhile Europe appears to be going down. Will unregulated immigration gradually swallow what was once Europe turning the old cathedrals into Mosques? Globalism may not be of human origin; it may just be the outworking of millennia of human affairs. There was Rome and then there were the dark ages. Those dreaming of a global empire may be disappointed by the twists and turns of history which seems set on a different plan.

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    1. We are headed for scenario represented in Children of Men

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