Earthquake in Japan....9.0...ouch!

I was thinking, easy access to water, chance of escaped gas blowing out to see rather than over land... being the good reasons to put it coastal. If its inland and it needs to vent it gauarantees that no natter which way the wind blows, land gets contiminated.

bad reasons, Tsunami might hit it and an escape of toxic slude can easily get into the wider coastal eco system?
 
Nuclear power plants are inherently fairly resistant to the effects of tsunamis anyway due to the way that most of the infrastructure is hardened - the sort of tsunami required to compromise that would mean that the nuclear issue was the least of your problems.
 
Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that Units 1, 2, and 4 at the Fukushima Daini retain off-site power. Daini Unit 3 is in a safe, cold shutdown, according to Japanese officials.
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Still concerned about Fukushima #1 tho (the forces it was exposed to in the earthquake were twice its upper engineered limit for 6 times as long as its tolerance at the upper limit).
 
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Just read about the the old fella found alive 9miles out at sea on the roof off his house, wonder how many more similar stories are there to be told by survivers.
 
were in the world would an earth quake cause a tsunami, and the uk would be in the tsunami's line of direction ?

some pretty shocking before and after shots here
Before & After
 
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GJ02 said:
were in the world would an earth quake cause a tsunami, and the uk would be in the tsunami's line of direction ?
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AFAIK the only direct vulnerability we have is from the mid-atlantic and it would have to be a huge quake and even then mostly dissipated by the time it hits us - there could be some localised amplification along the English Channel and possibly to a lesser extent the Severn Estuary.

Other than that it would be due to a catastrophic earthquake or sea based volcanic event with world wild consequences.
 
chaosdestro0 said:
Actually I think the African and Eurasian plates are probably closer and the Atlantic one is a constructive boundary so not going to do much. Not sure about the African and Eurasian, it might be constructive as well but it is a bit closer.
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Its almost all constructive around us so we are currently pretty safe.




Watch the animation here http://www.classzone.com/books/eart...807/es0807page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization where countries are moving towards each other theres a much higher risk of tsunami than where they are moving away.
 
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A state of emergency has been declared at a second nuclear power plant in Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said. "Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that the first, or lowest, state of emergency at the Onagawa nuclear power plant has been reported by Tohoku Electric Power Company"
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GJ02 said:
were in the world would an earth quake cause a tsunami, and the uk would be in the tsunami's line of direction ?

some pretty shocking before and after shots here
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Quite a bit nearer than you think.

In 1984 there was an Earthquake directly below the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales. The Aber Dinlle Fault runs SW - NE through North Wales.
It measured 5.4 on the Richter scale.

In 1931 there was a 6.1 Earthquake at Dogger Bank which is off in the North Sea - if that repeated on a larger scale, then the potential for Tsunami damage to the North East, Scottish and Norfolk Coasts could be quite high. This was the highest recorded magnitude in the UK since records began.

If you want to look at a list of British Earthquakes, take a look at this:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_United_Kingdom

The British Geological Survey website also has a lot of information.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/

In fact if you click this link on their website you can see where Earthquakes have been recorded around the UK in the last 30 days. So far mainy centred on Scotland they are:-

13/02/2011 - Magnitude 3.5
22/02/2011 - Magnitude 1.3
24/02/2011 - Magnitude 1.0
26/02/2011 - Magnitude 3.6

Quite minor in the scheme of things, but apparently the UK has a couple of hundred a year!

Oh and for the Doom-mongers amongst us who believe everything is going to disappear in a puff of smoke next year - take a look at

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/highlights/earthquakeActivity.html

Quite revealing isn't it? - but lets not have science and actual recordings get in the way of newspaper / book / tv 'documentary' sales.
 
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Andy90 said:
Quite a bit nearer than you think.

In 1984 there was an Earthquake directly below the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales. The Aber Dinlle Fault runs SW - NE through North Wales.
It measured 5.4 on the Richter scale.

In 1931 there was a 6.1 Earthquake at Dogger Bank which is off in the North Sea - if that repeated on a larger scale, then the potential for Tsunami damage to the North East, Scottish and Norfolk Coasts could be quite high. This was the highest recorded magnitude in the UK since records began.

If you want to look at a list of British Earthquakes, take a look at this:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_United_Kingdom

The British Geological Survey website also has a lot of information.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/
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Highest magnitude ever anticipated there is 6.5 - while its not impossible for higher - thats a long, long way from the amount of energy that would generate anything significant tsunami wise in that region.
 
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Highest magnitude ever anticipated there is 6.5 - while its not impossible for higher - thats a long, long way from the amount of energy that would generate anything significant tsunami wise in that region.
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Absolutely, but it was to demonstrate that there are fault lines far closer to home than a lot of people realise.
 
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