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7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Japan - Tsunami Warning Issued For Fukushima
UPDATE: Tepco Orders Evacuation of Fukushima Power Plant Workers
Via RT: Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has ordered the evacuation of workers from near the sea wall at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following the earthquake, local NHK reports.
People in coastal regions around the Fukushima Prefecture coastline have been advised to move to higher ground.
"Marine threat is in place," the Japan Meteorological Agency said. "Get out of the water and leave the coast immediately."
Japan's Met Agency has revised up its magnitude reading to 7.1 for quake off Fukushima coast. Shaking intensity map: pic.twitter.com/B1rXp3u1Ca
— Hiroko Tabuchi (@HirokoTabuchi) October 25, 2013
A 7.3 (according to USGS) magnitude earthquake just struck 311 miles ENE of Tokyo at a depth of 10km. The Pacific Tsunami Center has issued a warning and VOA reports a 1-meter high tsunami could hit Fukushima coast at 02:40 local - 1340ET)...
NHK radio and TV announcers airing repeated warnings to residents of #Fukushima to stay away from the coast. #tsunami #Japan
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 25, 2013
Tsunami warning region (yellow):

Tepco never lies. “@W7VOA: .@TEPCO_Nuclear: No fresh damage reported from Fukushima-1 NPP following strong quake off coast.”
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 25, 2013
it seems the eathquake is shrinking (are Japanese officials quantitatively easing down expectations)...
- 1319ET - *MAGNITUDE 7.6 QUAKE HITS 311 MILES ENE OF TOKYO: PT TSUNAMI
- 1323ET - FLASH: 7.5-MAGNITUDE QUAKE HITS OFF COAST OF JAPAN -- USGS
- 1324ET - *USGS: MAGNITUDE 7.3 - OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU
- 1327ET - URGENT: Magnitude-6.8 quake hits Japan's Fukushima region
- 1331ET - AP NewsAlert: Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake Strikes Off Fukushima
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"NHK radio and TV announcers airing repeated warnings to residents of #Fukushima to stay away from the coast."
Isn't it about time to stay away from the friggin' hemishpere?
We're gonna need more yen.
Time for Martin Armstrong to break out one of his circa 90's DOS system graphs to show his cult followers that he predicted this earthquake back in 1983.
Nothing a little more printing can't fix... Fukuppy to the rescue...
Why are you worried about a 39 inch wave? The seawall at Fukushima is much higher than that - 10 meters. The Tsunami on March 11, 2011 was 13 meters.
The damage is already done. Even another 13 meter Tsunami wouldn't do much further damage. The only problem is that electric power to the plant might be taken out.
I suspect that TEPco is much better prepared to fix that now than then. People tend to lock the barn door after the horse has escaped.
"Even another 13 meter Tsunami wouldn't do much further damage."
I hereby nominate you for the coveted Moron of the Month award.
"The only problem is that electric power to the plant might be taken out."
Do you mean the electric power to the NUKULAR plant? The one with NUKULAR stuff in it?
Well that's just great. Thanks for the ruined Friday. RUINED!!!
-->Urban Bard works for G.E.
-->Urban Bard is just a regular moron
You're a disciple of "radiation is good for us" Ann Coulter aren't you?
Radiation is what makes nuclear power plants able to produce our power, duh.
One meter high! Somebody better warn the Lollipop Guild Local Hall.
I bet a sumo could make a bigger wave if he farted in the jacuzzi.
their normal waves are 4 feet high
The normal waves would be superimposed on top, so we are talking a temporary sea level rise of 3ft, plus or minus 2 ft, with the 4 ft waves. I am shaking in my boots. Will never see the world the same way again.
Couple this with the fact that the Japanese are on a societal suicide path and you have to wonder if nature isn't saying that the Japanese time is done.
I read this on the Guardian the other day: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-...
All I have to say, is it any wonder this has happened?
Yeah that's a good article. The Hedge ran that piece a few days back. Here is another interesting video that the Hedge ran.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-23/sex-sells-and-japanese-are-buying-look-japans-love-industry
There's a Japanese guy I chat to in the supermarket occasionally. Former engineer at the local Toyota engine plant.He just quit (which is a big thing for a Japanese corporate employee!), as Toyota wanted to promote him and post him back to the Home Islands. The guy reckons he'd sooner take home a few percent less pay working for Vauxhall (GM) than go back to Japan.
And, yeah, he does appear to know just how fucked up the economic situation in the UK is.
Does he not know how fucked up the socio- cultural situation in the UK is?
On a local level, it isn't. Things are getting MUCH more community minded, the past year or so. On your side of the pond also, in parts. I have friends in New Hampshire, Maine, Washington state, Texas.. all over. Oddly, they all seem to live outside major towns and cities. Funny that!
On a national level...either side of the Atlantic... well. Better left unexamined, for fear I might spontaneously have a stroke due to blood pressure issues.
I'm sure TEPCOck will propose a plan to harnass the power of future earthquakes to power giant air conditioners that will superchill the water in and around the plant, thereby saving Japan - no - TEH WORLD!!!!1!!
D.J. #1: Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today.
D.J. #2: It's coooold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?
D.J. #1: Not hardly. And you know, you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know, that, uh, that blizzard thing.
D.J. #2: [mockingly] That blizzard - thing. That blizzard - thing. Oh, well, here's the report! The National Weather Service is calling for a "big blizzard thing!"
D.J. #1: Yessss, they are. But you know, there's another reason why today is especially exciting.
D.J. #2: Especially cold!
D.J. #1: Especially cold, okay, but the big question on everybody's lips...
D.J. #2:
D.J. #1:
D.J. #2: Punxsutawney Phil!
D.J. #1: That's right, woodchuck-chuckers - it's...
D.J. #1, D.J. #2: [in unison] GROUNDHOG DAY!
"What'll it be today...Yellow Sno Cone or Irridescent Sno Cream?"
o'bamba ought to send his techies to save fuk-u-china
Nice knowing you all. I'm gonna be on Expedia looking for flights to Chile.
Maybe you should consider going to the other coast (Brazil)?
In any case, please do not worry ... bitchez!
Might want to rethink that plan I spent 5 mins doing some napkin calculation and figure the fuku core will surface +- 300 miles off the coast of brazil after it melts down through the center..../snark.
We need more tweets for the status ! more Tweets please. lol
Riveting stuff! One meter or just a half meter? How wet will it get?!
Not a word on live US News or NHK's website???
MSM=Panem et Circensus...
Headline on CNN right now is about JonBenet Ramsey.
What a joke.
Drudge has the fuckin Redskins.....yep....fucked.
I'm not getting too excited, if it isn't this one, there will be another one along shortly. Big tsunami events in Japanese happen moderately frequently. Another big one will happen long before they clean the site up. This crap has a half life 10,000 and more
The U-235 aerosolized and dispersed globally has a half-life of 704 million years, all several thousand tons of it.
The plutonium -239 is deadlier, but there's less of it, only a few tons. That half-life is only 24,000 years.
Let's see, most elements have much much longer half lives, so I am going with, the longer a particular element stays around, the better, unless I need radioactivity, and often enough I do. Take the tritium reticle illuminator in you typical zombie scope....
JFK! Where's the MSM on this one? Never mind, don't answer.
Maybe they read "1m wave" and yawned?
By Jaysus, God sure has a real hard on for Nippon. Honestly, I don't know if Fuk is as bad as some here on ZH say {I come for the articles and stay for the comments - lots of smart folks, and most of the idiots are interesting} but, it does seem to be a problem with no apparent fix... and it's clear there's lots of radioactivity getting into the ocean....
Why doesn't the news media give a fuck?
I mean, it's their ass too, no?
In other news, after Dr. Krugman wrote his final paragraph in today's column, he disappeared in a puff of irony.
So, we have that going for us.
Sing it John....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PErUiAyVoGc
Wait till they try to move the fuel rods in November... the shit will truly hit the fan... those olympics ought to be a real thrill... and here I thought Obongo was the dumbest shit in the world...
When a tsunami comes a knockin, Fukushima will be a rockin....
It was just a matter of time before TEPCO could blame leakage on yet another natural disaster. Rince repeat until the Pacific glows.
The way I understand it, the big quake that hit and destroyed Fukushima was on a major fault that is slowly, one quake at a time, in motion towards the south. The next really big quake should be a Tokyo quake, as the pressure now sits on the fault out at sea off of the Tokyo area. The clock is ticking and there is no way to avid the coming big one.
It would seem with the state of Fukushima, 3 melted cores, 1 core in storage in a damaged fuel pool and all four reactors storing huge amounts of spent fuel in pools in various stages of destruction. In short, the biggest ticking time bomb on earth. A major quake could trigger a spent fuel pool fire, or destroy cooling pipes to the melt downs. Whatever, the Japanese are doing nothing at all about Fukushima. Unless you call pissing water onto this whole mess in the attempt to keep it all cool and stable for the moment. At the present rate, in 50 years time, nothing will have changed, and the bomb will still be ticking. This assumes NOTHING happens to upset the cooling arrangements! Like a major quake!
This should be a world priority. Russia, China, USA, the EU should all be on the scene with their best government and corporate nuclear experts and engineers. Beyond doubt, the world needs to take this on. At present, the massive quantity of radioactive water is going into the sea and the ground water table. Radioactive elements are spreading across Japan and out to sea. Many of these are not even being measured. This is on purpose. The government is now planning to pass a law that will put in jail anyone who blows the whistle of corporate or government failures. Like Fukushima. This shows how modern governments in the free world have adopted the Soviet Model. In this model, problems are not confronted and solved, but those who point the problems out to the public are put in jail. The USA leads the pack in this new form of democracy. The democracy of the jail cell. SNowden is in Russia in hiding guarded by the Russian FSB, meanwhile Mr. Obama plots his murder or kidnapping. This is America in 2013.
Fukushima and Japan are showing the world the way forward. Corporate crimes will be unpunished, anyone pointing the crimes or fraud out, will be jailed as an enemy of the people. Watch, this is now in place in the USA, Britain and soon in Japan. The Soviet model of rigged fake elections is also on the move. Obama and Bush, you call that a choice? Really, that is what Americans were offered? One party rule and a police state, that is the model. We are living it now! It will get much, much worse. Once the sky over Main Street is full of drones, no whistle blower will be safe. The government is now a major criminal enterprise using force of arms to enforce their rule. I welcome anyone to say I am wrong. I would love to hear their side of the argument in defense of the USA political system of the last decade.
No, it is a subduction zone. In this case the oceanic crust fault plane dips WNW under the Japanese islands. The quakes are shallow in the east and progressively deeper further to the west, down to >650km depth under North Korea and Vladivostok area.
This particular quake was 400 km out to sea in very deep water and actually on the other side of the subduction zone on the north western Pacific plate (which is some of the oldest sea floor on earth). These quakes are common in the area though this one is a little further eastward.
The quake-tsunami that took out Fukushima's coast occurred on the landward side of the subduction zone, considerably closer to shore, in much shallower waters above the subduction zone's marine sediment 'wedge'.
Uh am I missing something Element, this quake appears to be much closer to the surface and only 50 miles further out to sea than the March 2011 quake?! I am fully aware the size of the quake is much smaller.
Today : A 7.3 (according to USGS) magnitude earthquake just struck 311 miles ENE of Tokyo at a depth of 10km. The Pacific Tsunami Center has issued a warning and VOA reports a 1-meter high tsunami could hit Fukushima coast at 02:40 local - 1340ET)
vs.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0001xgp/
Have a look at the USGS map, there's a distance scale on the lower left, it's ~400km east of Fukushima, on the NW pacific plate, and further oceanwards than most subduction 'fore-bulge' quakes.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
The quake that took out Daiichi was much closer to shore in much shallower water.
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2011/eq_110311_c0001xgp/neic_c0001xgp...
It's like I said. The new quake is in a totally different area, much further east, and about 2.5 times further from the coast.
BTW, these shallow mid-size quakes, occurring further out to sea are very common and regular all along the Japanese eastern sea board, and rarely cause much damage, if any.
That's what I meant element. The idea was that the subduction slip is moving south. It goes under in pieces split by lateral faults.
That is not a correct understanding Jack, the relative movement of the plates is that the pacific plate is moving WNW, dipping down under Japan toward Siberia, (at a high-rate, geologically speaking). The quake that occurred in Mar 2011 was an area rupture, it was not one single quake but scores of them overprinting. The mag 9.0 is the cumulative energy release from all of these, and not from a single point source. Yet the maps of it generally show a single point location for where it began.
In that case the rupture began in the north and the rupture-earthquakes propagated southward, but the relative movement of the pacific plate is WNW, not south. But the quakes occurred in the marine sediment pile above the dipping oceanic crust. It's likely this was due to a 'mass-wasting' event (sediment overburden slump) which created a large 'turbidity flow'. These behave like a fast moving pyroclastic flow, but with mud in water, moving down-slope towards the trench of the subduction, then fanning out across the NW pacific plate. These flows can move hundreds of kilometers ocean wards. And that's what displaces the water above it to produce the ocean sloshing ashore.
The 'Big-One' that was prior predicting for Tokyo area, is expected to occur to the ESE of Tokyo, and that one has still not occurred, but of course will, but it's predicted to be a lower mag (statistically determined by prior event evidence).
And the UK is building a bunch more nuclear plants. Good idea.
Yes "hangem". They will be built by the Chinese and French government nuclear industries for Britain on contract. In this contract is a law that allows the China/France joint venture to double the price of UK electricity produced at the plants, and to enfore that price increase for 30 full years!
Britain, a supposed first world nation must turn to two government owned and run nuclear corporations to build a plant in the UK. Worse, in order to get them to build it, they had to pass a law gouging the UK rate payer with a 2 fold increase in electricity prices for energy coming from the plant, and for three decades! This is communism plain and simple. Government law dictates what two government entities can charge the people of the UK.
I wonder if it can get worse in the UK, but every day I go online and read the UK papers, it DOES, ONLY, GET, FUCKING, WORSE.
The wages of "climate" "science" funding. Not that there is anything wrong with building new nuclear power plants generally speaking.
The next disaster that wipes out humanity will have a sticker on it: Made in Japan...
Rasis.
This is the disaster that wipes out humanity, WB7. Anything further is just going to accelerate the process.
This is an ELE in slow-motion.
And that 'Made In Japan' sticker is going to say 'Mfd. by GE'.
I'm still betting on the Bamster to be the most significant causal factor, what with his foreign policy and general plan to economically cripple and dismantle the one republic capable of preventing big wars breaking out.
Some serious stuff.
Must read kind of stuff here guys!
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-operation-spent-fuel-618/
http://www.ryot.org/one-wrong-move-at-fukushima-could-unleash-a-nuclear-...
The west coast of the USA used to be such a nice place.
Good luck.'
Enenews.com
And don't forget the Bridgton illegal nuclear waste dump fire burning out of control in St. Louis.
Half the US is downwind from that disaster.
It will be well lit at night now.
I'm scared..
Hold me, Taylor...
THORIUM! Why the hell don't gov'ts start allowing thorium, the safe alternative to uranium.
Geez, it's enough to make a guy believe in conspiracy. I heard Canada has been looking into it. No radiation problem...can't make nukes out of it. US went with uranium instead of thorium because of the nukes when doing the development.
Look for/watch for information about Chinese thorium reactor programs. If real and reasonably successful, the suppression of the uranium nuclear power cabal may eventually be broken. It would sadden me if the assholes who suppressed thorium development subsequently became the profiteers for its construction.
Mt Fuji in red
http://bit.ly/1bmwtUX
Soon everyone will be turning Japanese, I think they're turning Japanese I really think so.
At least they're warning people. They told everyone in Fukushima area to "get out of the water immediately". That's helpful, the question is though, who the fuck told them it was a good idea to go IN water that is spewing enough radiation to ignite a battleship?? At least they are being considerate in case anyone that actually DID go swimming off the coast of Fukushima is alive they should come out of the water now or something bad could happen to them.
This will be great for the markets. A total catastrophic disaster of epic proportion will help Japans GDP when they try to rebuild the entire country in lead. Buy lead futures.
Looking out on the horizon…we see more storms a coming.
There are high readings now in Fresno, CA and Las Vegas, NV. Looks like a wave is moving into our direction along the southern utah border. We have had higher than average readings in the last week in our region.
We will be monitoring this as it comes through on Friday and Saturday at about the right time we predicted from past timings of the waves that hit the USA. After any major disturbance both known and unknown about, we have seen the average time for the wave to get to the west coast is five to six days. In the mid-west it is seven to eight days, and in the mid-east 8-9 days, and on the east coast about 9-11 days depending on the jet stream.
What is obvious to see now is the heat around all the corruption and failures of Obama care, Syria, Saudi Arabia going off the petrodollar, and now Benghazi-gate getting some light shined on it, is getting hotter. The evil globalists are using Geo-egineering to make fukushima the ELE it is, quicken. They want to kill the world's people faster now because of the massive amounts of people awakening and pursuing justice. The whole new world oder plan is falling apart, thus making them speed up the population reduction agenda.
Hold tight, stock up, prepare to seal inside and shelter in place. It is only getting worse according to more and more reports coming forth.
Blessings to the truth seekers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVLTWmh_uzE#t=1212
http://hatrickpenryunbound.com/?p=3928
Ok how do we know it wasn't another underwater nuke?
Holy shit boys, run for the hills!!!!!!
Stay away from the coast! Nice advice to islanders
Residents of Japan: PLEASE keep us updated!
This is all Fukuppy's fault.
Which way is the wind blowing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQddQO45oo&feature=player_detailpage
Great, Tsunami is washing away all the radiation, it's you problem West Coast.
1 Foot Tsunami Hits Fukushima … No Reported Damage
Did your feet get wet?
Tsunami Advisory cancelled @ 4:05 Local...NHK reported
That's fucked up.
those haarp rothschild folks really want japan and a few billion of the rest of us gone.
why
can't the jews learn to love the goy?