Watching NHK. Strong earthquake off Fukushima.

[Maggiemayhem]

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[groundloop]

1. DAMN!!!!! - edit - apparently no tsunami this time.

Link to tweet

[chwaliszewski]

12. Oy!

Not again....

[Renew Deal]

3. Looks like a 7.0

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000dher/executive

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Here's a link from the Japan Times

Magnitude 7.1 earthquake jolts Fukushima area



Staff report

Feb 13, 2021

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake, which measured a strong 6 on the shindo (intensity) scale, was detected at a depth of 60 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday at 11:08 p.m.

There is currently no tsunami warning in effect.

As a precaution, those near coastal areas are advised to move to higher ground.


https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/13/national/earthquake-fukushima/

[Iliyah]

5. Recently New Zealand was hit as well . . . .

Ugh.

[Cetacea]

6. As long as the spent fuel rods don't bang into one another

How odd that an ongoing triple nuclear meltdown hardly gets mentioned in the news. Nor the mass die-offs of sea life.

[Crash2Parties]

21. The intact rods were secured & removed.

It's the molten core that melted through to the groundwater that has been the 600lb gorilla nobody talks about.

[Cetacea]

29. Thanks. And, yes.

[NickB79]

27. The mass dieoffs have been reported about for 20 years

Climate change, not Fukushima, being the cause.

[Cetacea]

28. Or both.

[FBaggins]

30. There's no danger from spent fuel rods touching each other

Not the least reason for which is that the earthquake was on the order of 1% as strong.

You don't seriously believe there's an ongoing meltdown, do you?

[Jedi Guy]

31. Nuclear panic/hysteria is kind of a thing around here, I've noticed... N/T

[spinbaby]

7. Not good, but certainly not unexpected

Where are you that you’re watching NHK? Is it available online?

[Bmoboy]

15. I get NHK on Comcast - channel 265

[Crash2Parties]

22. I miss NHK

We lost all of our OTA (over the air) stations during the FCC's channel shuffle last year.
Most local ota stations were offered ultra low frequency channels in major markets in trade for their higher frequency channels out in rural areas. So now their operating costs are substantially lower but their signal rarely if ever goes past the city limits of whatever major city they moved to. Cell phone & cable companies benefited. Public channels lowered their operating costs. But now there's pretty much nothing left of over the air channels for most areas outside dense urban cities in many areas of the country.

[mahina]

32. I didn't know anything was still over the air. Is PBS?

I’d love to learn more about that.

I don’t suppose the public access Chanels are?

Mahalo.

(PBS donor, not a free rider)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

34. Where do you live?

https://www.channelmaster.com/Local-TV-Channels-a/394.htm

https://www.rabbitears.info/

https://nocable.org/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

33. Where do you live?

https://www.channelmaster.com/Local-TV-Channels-a/394.htm

https://www.rabbitears.info/

https://nocable.org/

[spinbaby]

24. I just checked

Comcast here offers NHK, but only the English version.

[Lefta Dissenter]

8. Thanks for the heads up on that.

Just texted with my family in Tokyo. They said it was a scary one. 😳

[llashram]

9. not good

hope what's contained stays contained

[flying_wahini]

10. And with the one north of New Zealand last week bodes poorly for another one very soon.

Where will the next one be?????

[Maggiemayhem]

11. Had to walk 300 feet in the ice and snow to get my car.

I am going to a medical appointment soon so won’t be back until 3 or so. Sorry for the lack of info bur watched it happen live. NHK is on of our channels on PBS.Maryland . MPT 31.4. Pick it up free on over the air broadcast.

[pandr32]

18. That's awesome you broke this for us

Sounds like you are cold over there.
Sending some Aloha from Hawaii for a little warmth.

[Maggiemayhem]

13. No radiation dented and no tsunami alert. So far so good. Power is out in the area in some place.

Stay warm.

[Cetacea]

14. By State Law, Japan is forbidden to report any bad news from Fukushima

It extends to journalists who are not from Japan as far as I know. Abe told the people to smile away the radiation...

[Crash2Parties]

23. Yep. Might hurt TEPCO's stock price.

Keeping an eye on all the crowdsourced radiation tracking sites & our own monitor/feed.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. details of quakes below

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000dher/executive
mag 7.1

[Ligyron]

17. I guess the depth at which it occurs has a lot to do with how destructive it is.

So maybe the scale thing doesn't really take that into account?Also, along with where on the earth it occurs relative to human population centers, etc.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. Article on this quake from Channel News Asia.....

Strong quake hits off Japan coast, triggering blackouts
13 Feb 2021 10:30PM
(Updated: 14 Feb 2021 12:03AM)

Link: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/7-1-magnitude-quake-hits-off-coast-of-japan-fukushima-14189614

(snips)

TOKYO: A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 hit off the coast of eastern Japan on Saturday (Feb 13), shaking buildings and triggering widespread blackouts, but there appeared to be no major damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of 60km, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It hit at 11.08pm local time (10.08pm, Singapore time) and shook buildings in the capital Tokyo and elsewhere. No tsunami warning had been issued, the meteorological agency said.

Some 950,000 households were initially without power, government spokesman Katsunobu Kato told a briefing carried on public broadcaster NHK. The blackouts appeared to be concentrated in northeast Japan, including Fukushima and neighbouring prefectures.

There were no irregularities at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants, or at the Kahiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, owner Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said. The utility also said there was no change in the radiation levels around its plants. Kato said there were no irregularities at the Fukushima Daini and Onagawa nuclear facilities.

Note that CNA also has comprehensive coverage of the crisis in Burma.

KY.......... .........

[Crash2Parties]

25. "no irregularities at the Fukushima Daiichi "

It's not like the plant is functioning any more. My biggest fear would be if the many, many tanks of contaminated water started leaking.

[electric_blue68]

20. Oh, dear. Good luck Japan.

[IcyPeas]

26. 7.3 powerful #earthquake struck Japan this morning with the epicenter not far from the #Fukushima nu

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[Omaha Steve]

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