Scientists warn of years of aftershocks in Japan, and risks on other faults

[Turborama]

Source: Washington Post Via The Seattle Times

Originally published Monday, April 11, 2011 at 10:00 PM

By Joel Achenbach

Japan won't stop shaking. One month after the horrific March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the island was rattled anew by aftershocks: A magnitude-6.6 quake on Monday was followed by a 6.3 quake on Tuesday.

Monday's quake was strong enough to knock out electricity briefly at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.

Four days earlier, a magnitude-7.1 quake led to four deaths and widespread power outages. With soldiers still looking for the bodies of thousands of people who vanished a month ago, Japan is coping with the painful reality that it sits in a seismic bull's eye.

Now scientists are warning that the March 11 event not only will lead to years of aftershocks but also might have increased the risk of a major quake on an adjacent fault. A new calculation by American and Japanese scientists concluded that the March 11 event heightened the strain on a number of faults bracketing the ruptured segment of the Japan Trench.

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014747557_quake12.html

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For anyone who may not know already...

http://www.nucleartourist.com/world/japan.htm">Japan has 53 nuclear power plants

[murielm99]

1. Those poor people.

They have had enough suffering.

[hlthe2b]

3. I woke up this morning to news of another major after shock...

that was exactly my reaction. My God, they've had more than enough suffering. How much can they take? It is heart-breaking.

[defendandprotect]

6. But, can you imagine that the people we dropped atomic weapons on would have

turned to nuclear reactors? For all of their energy?

Must have been quite some salesman!!

It's ironic - the atomic age began with us dropping nuclear weapons on them --

and it may be at some kind of a yet unknown ending here in Japan now -- ????

Certainly nuclear reactors were put in place -- not simply to boil water --

but to cover up and argue against the dangers of nuclear weapons which US wanted

to continue to build. This was one response to "Ban the bomb!"


As the woman from the Bikini Islands said as we were dropping nukes on her homeland,

testing them --

"Americans are really smart about really stupid things" --

[EFerrari]

4. Heartbreaking.

[GReedDiamond]

2. Seismic expectations like that, combined with...

...the ongoing nuclear catastrophe = a world of shit.

It's all NOT good.

[defendandprotect]

5. They are extending the evacuation area -- but whatever other nuclear reactors they have ...

would seem wise to be shutting down!!

In fact, given what's going on with chaotic weather all over the planet --

think we should be shutting down our 106 nuclear reactors!!


This is heartbreaking -- and we are all connected to it -- I'm not watching

anything but a bit of BBC but are they reporting conditions for people in

these areas -- thought there were great problems with food/water -- radiation?

I've seen bits of reports here and there -- didn't seem like much????