11 earthquake in Japan in March; the nuclear emergency !!

[Christophe]

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Friday the state of nuclear emergency after the earthquake of magnitude 8,8 on the Richter scale that struck Honshu Island north-east of the Japanese archipelago, while claiming that there were no radioactive leaks.

This measure makes it possible to take emergency measures in case of nuclear disasters.

At a press conference, the secretary general of the cabinet, Yukio Edano, said that no leakage of nuclear radiation has been detected so far.

According to him, residents living next to nuclear power plants do not need to take any special measures.

A fire broke out at a nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture after the devastating earthquake, Kyodo News reported.

In addition, the Ministry of Industry has indicated 11 nuclear reactors were automatically shut down at the Onagawa plant, the 1 power stations and 2 number at Fukushima and the Tokai 2 plant.

Earlier, at a press conference, Prime Minister Kan said that no problem has yet been detected at Japanese nuclear power plants.

Source: http://french.cri.cn/621/2011/03/11/302s239941.htm

Read also: http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/economie/ ... 50442.html

Nuclear, transport ... the economy of Japan affected by the earthquake

Nuclear industry: 2000 people evacuated, no radioactive leak

In Fukushima prefecture, the governor ordered the evacuation of some 2000 people living within a radius of 2 km around the Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant. The Ministry of Industry said that the 11 nuclear reactors in the region were are automatically stopped. This emergency measure took place "safely", according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).


In Miyagin prefecture, a fire was reported in a building housing a turbine at the Onagawa nuclear power plant.

However, according to the authorities, no radioactive leakage in this facility or in the other nuclear sites of the affected prefectures has been detected.

In the Tokyo area, an oil refinery was on fire in Iichihara and flames rose several tens of meters high.

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Some pictures of the damage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaFBlH8tjM

[Christophe]

See also the complete file of the new Obs: http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualit ... plage.html

9h35 - Japan In total, 18 replicas since the first magnitude quake 8.9, then 6.4, 6.4, 6.8, 7.1, 6.3, 6.3, 5.8, 5.9, 6.3, 6.1, 6.1, 5.9, 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.9, 6.2 , according to Fox.

Gallery: http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/galeries ... japon.html

We are talking about the "Big One": http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/03/11 ... g-one.html

[dedeleco]

Nuclear does not seem the worst (no Chernobyl-type plant explosion and evacuations at 100Km!) And the tsunami is much worse, between 10000 and 100000 dead to see its magnitude on aerial images!

This is the worst in intensity that Japan has in 200 years and this one happily not under Tokyo!

In France the risk is not zero of such a tsunami, a hundred times weaker but real, with nuclear power stations at the edge of the sea !! (the tsunami risk was forgotten at the design like very underestimated that of earthquake, but it existed with that of Lisbon in 1755 and tsunami).
In France and Europe such a strong earthquake happens about every 3000 to 5000ans, but exists with certainty !!
Continental drift rate 10 times less, Africa Europe 0,5cm per year, compared to 5cm per year in Japan, approx.

It will also happen anywhere in Europe, unpredictable, not Lisbon or Basel:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremblemen ... e_Lisbonne

The quakes of the earthquake were felt all over Europe, as far as Finland. Other tsunamis reaching heights of twenty meters struck the coast of North Africa [7], or crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Martinique or Barbados. A wave three meters high threw itself on the south coast of England.

[Christophe]

Nuclear does not seem the worst (no Chernobyl-type plant explosion and evacuations at 100Km!) And the tsunami is much worse, between 10000 and 100000 dead to see its magnitude on aerial images!

Mmmm 100 000 I do not think, probably several thousand ...

Japan is probably the country in the world that best protects its inhabitants (standards, alert, training from the youngest ages ...).

In any case the count is increasing every hour ...

[Leo Maximus]

One of the reactors of the Fukushima plant has problems with its cooling circuit (it dates from 4 hours ago). One can fear a fusion of the heart like Three Miles Island but not a Chernobyl (there is a containment). 3000 people were evacuated.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/201 ... 5000c.html (date less than an hour ago)

[dedeleco]

I hope I'm a bird of misfortune that exaggerates, but I'm afraid that if we approach, given the lack of information on the most affected sector:
see the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

Houses and other buildings are also located in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture, near Sendai, broadcast by Japanese TV shows. The city has a population of 74,000.
1451: Another five powerful aftershocks measuring around 5.5 magnitude have just rattled the eastern coast of Japan in succession, the US Geological Survey reports.
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1444: A broad waterfront area near Sendai, the city closest to the epicenter, is on fire, Japanese TV is reporting.
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1443: Back to Japan: The official Kyodo news agency is reporting that about 88,000 people are missing.

They could not escape the tsunami on 300Km of low coasts !!

[Leo Maximus]

.... They could not escape the tsunami on 300Km of low coasts !!

Along the Pacific coast there are dikes whose total length must be ten thousand km, it has nothing to do with Phuket in Thailand but there could still be several thousand dead.

[Christophe]

Ben dede well 88 000 missing there ...

ps: i made a topci on the seismic statistics

[Lietseu]

Currently, there is talk on CNN to evacuate the city of Fushukima resident 6000, the cooling system of the plant is down, there would have been a fire in the local pump ...

Risk of "Chinese syndrome" according to a specialist interviewed on BBC World, a story of hours not days, he said ...

Meow

[Leo Maximus]

Ben dede well 88 000 missing there ...

ps: i made a topci on the seismic statistics

Missing = presumed dead or "people of whom we have no news"?

On the images, we can see houses being carried away by the tsunami but these houses are intact so they have not been affected by the earthquake and, in theory, these houses seem empty, evacuated from their inhabitants.

88000 missing, supposedly dead, seems excessive to me. As Michel Chevalet said earlier: "Japan is not Haiti".

ML