Sunday Open Thread | 47 comments (47 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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6.4 magnitude earthquake off Japanese coast...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000ahy0#shakemap

by asdf on Sun Jun 17th, 2012 at 05:25:50 PM EST

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fan-freaking-tastic.

Have they switched their nukes back on yet ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jun 17th, 2012 at 05:40:35 PM EST
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They recently switched two back on.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Sun Jun 17th, 2012 at 06:25:03 PM EST
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Permission to restart
in Ohi NPS was just given,
but the reactors are not running yet apparently.

by das monde on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 02:38:05 AM EST
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That is what I get for lazy reading of the news (ie believing what they say without checking their sources).

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 04:58:43 AM EST
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Earthscare (none / 1)

There is nothing odd, or terribly frightening, about earthshakes for the coast of Japan in the range of 6 - 7 at the Richter scale. Furthermore, the recent quake was the result of normal faulting, thus blocks slipping downwards. That type of faulting (rarely) causes tsunami's.

As a reminder, the Fukushima disaster occurred because the nuclear reactors weren't build for withstanding a quake (and subsequent tsuanmis) larger than 7.9 at the Richter scale.

by Nomad on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 10:01:34 AM EST
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Re: Earthscare (4.00 / 6)

The state of the fuel pool in the No 4 Fukushima reactor building is so bad, that a conventional earthquake earthquake may crack the water out of it. If that happens in these months while there are no means to extract fuel from the pool, Tokyo ought to be evacuated.

by das monde on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 10:45:34 AM EST
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6.4 offshore isn't a big quake (none / 0)

a lot of energy is dissipated by the time it gets to shore.

by wu ming on Tue Jun 19th, 2012 at 02:00:33 PM EST
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