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Powerful 5.6 earthquake rocks Fukushima
More bad news for the beleaguered Japanese prefecture of Fukushima, as a powerful earthquake shook cities and halted train services. No damage or injuries were reported in the second major earthquake since November 2016, APA reports quoting Sputnik.
The undersea earthquake, 21 miles from the nearest settlement and striking at a depth of 26 miles beneath sea level, measured a magnitude 5.6 on the Richter Scale according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake was powerful enough to cause buildings to shake as far away as Tokyo, about 180 miles south. No damage was reported to any of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors.
US and Japanese authorities assuaged fears of another tsunami like the devastating one that struck Fukushima in March 2011 following a magnitude-9 quake. That disaster led to an estimated 18,500 fatalities and caused a meltdown of several nearby nuclear power reactors. The Japan Meteorological Agency reports that the new quake is an aftershock of the devastating one from 2011.
In November 2016, a 6.9-magnitude quake caused a much smaller tsunami in Fukushima. No damage was caused at the time.
Japan is located at the convergence of four tectonic plates, meaning the Land of the Rising Sun frequently contends with violent earthquakes. Some 20 percent of all the world’s quakes hit, or occur near, the island nation.
As a result of this pressure, buildings in Japan are built to resist earthquake damage. Buildings are laid with deep foundation and shock absorbers, and skyscrapers are built to sway rather than hold a rigid shape.
56 Comments on "Powerful 5.6 earthquake rocks Fukushima"
Antius on Thu, 2nd Mar 2017 4:23 pm
Nope. If we can build them cheaply it will buy us some time and keep living standards at a reasonable level. Renewable energy simply cannot do that. Low interest rates and rock depressed commodity prices, make it look more feasible than it actually is.
Living in a closed system, nothing will help in the long term, because every single resource is depleting. There is no happy ending as long as we continue living on one little planet. It is either space age or stone age. What I am suggesting is the same as I have suggested before.
Cloggie on Thu, 2nd Mar 2017 5:34 pm
Europe prospered post ww2 because Churchill and Stalin and Roosevelt separated all the races of Europe each race to its own land and wisdom is being totally undone by the liberal elites like Soros et al.
Thanks to Stalin, Europe prospered. Thanks joe for this gem of wisdom. If you want to be beaten up, I advise you peddle this lunacy in your average Budapest cafe.
You want to know what really happened in the run-up to WW2 (no you don’t)? Just discovered this brand new article from a Estonian historian. Sums it up pretty well:
http://sam.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Perceptions_Summer2016-4.pdf
Everything we thought we “knew” about WW2 is turned upside down.
Perhaps it is good for you to realize what position Britain is in when this comes all out in the open, as it will.
That Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin of yours, plotting for aggressive war against Germany, not the other way around.
When the US empire will fall, all the invented stories will fall with it.
Enjoy this 22 page read.
http://tinyurl.com/jk8qte3
Bossom palls Churchill and Stalin. Were in bed since 1934.
makati1 on Thu, 2nd Mar 2017 6:28 pm
If I had the power, I would shut down all of the nuke plants today and send all of the radioactive junk, weapons, fuel, etc. into the sun. Including medical stuff. Close and blast the mines shut and end the nuclear age. Recycle the processing equipment into something useful. IF I had the power. As I do not, we will just have to wait and see who pushes the nuclear button first. Will it be Pakistan VS India? N.Korea VS S.Korea? Iran VS Israel? The U$ VS Russia/China? We shall see.
onlooker on Thu, 2nd Mar 2017 6:40 pm
How many seconds before midnight on that doomsday clock?
GregT on Thu, 2nd Mar 2017 7:26 pm
“It is either space age or stone age.”
I think it’s a pretty safe bet that none of us here will be colonizing space any time soon.
Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Mar 2017 2:41 am
It is either space age or stone age.
Space travel in the 21st century probably won’t be very big. It will be pretty much like somebody quipped: “JFK put a man on the moon, Obama put a man in the ladies room”.
Antius vision of hyper-technology based on a plutonium-economy and “space-mining” is too much, even for my taste. It’s like from a Batman comic book.
Space travel was likely a thing of the past, done by a hyper-self-confident 90+% white financial surplus country, that had access to Nazi engineering genius.
Having said that, I hope that Trump succeeds in his planned moon-circling stunt this decade for prestige reasons, which hopefully cements his power-position, so he can carry out his “Fourth Turning” vision of destroying the liberal political establishment.
Nevertheless, I’m sympathetic to space exploration. NASA and ESA and Russia should at least aim at consolidating what they have accomplished so far: communication satellites, GPS-Galileo, manned space station and sending robots to other planets.
In this century we need to concentrate on the energy transition away from fossil fuel towards a solar economy and resolutely defending our home lands against the third world to prevent a total collapse of our civilization, like happened after the fall of the Roman Empire for 1000 years:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/detroit-illiteracy-nearly-half-education_n_858307.html
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/76/03/bd/7603bd1b2684b95d526e80fc8262ab37.jpg
Perhaps next century.