Monday 5 August 2013

Earthquake

Strong earthquake M 6.0 struck near crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant



4 August, 2013

A strong earthquake registered as M 6.0 (JMA) on Richter scale struck northeastern Japan on August 4, 2013 at 03:28 UTC. JMA reported depth of 50 km. This earthquake was 41 km away from March 11, 2011 devastating M 9.0 "Tohoku earthquake" and about 109 km away from crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

There was no risk of a tsunami, JMA said.

Operator of crippled nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai-ichi said no problems were reported there or at another one of its nuclear plants in Fukushima..

USGS measured magnitude 5.8 earthquake and depth of 46 km.
Fukushima-Diary reported yesterday that unusual number of the earthquakes are occurring in the region. 18 quakes hit Fukushima and also 18 quakes hit Iwaraki only within a day.

Following a major earthquake on March 11, 2011, a 15-meter tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors (Unit 1-3). All three cores largely melted in the first three days. Unit 4 became a problem in next 5 days.

5.7 earthquake – Vancouver Island


Magnitude mb 5.7
RegionVANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION
Date time2013-08-04 13:22:29.0 UTCLocation49.88 N ; 127.02 W
Depth10 km

Distances3811 km NW of Ottawa, Canada / pop: 812,129 / local time: 09:22:29.0 2013-08-04
311 km NW of Victoria, Canada / pop: 289,625 / local time: 06:22:29.0 2013-08-04
114 km NW of Tofino, Canada / pop: 1,655 / local time: 06:22:29.0 2013-08-04




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