Why does nobody here mention the very possible nuclear desaster in Fokushima1.
That could get even worse then the flood.
It won't
By a long shot
It's an issue that makes for good headlines and distracts from the abject horror of the fact that 10,000 people may be dead, and several cities and towns have just disappeared.
FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
The Russian peninsula is one of the most geologically active sites in the world. More volcanos than anywhere else on earth; they get something like one eruption a month*, but it usually goes unreported because it's fucking Siberia, and no one lives there, goes there or witnesses it except as a blip on a monitoring screen.
* I can't actually remember the actual number, but remember thinking it's really high.
Indonesia being related seems less likely to me. The shaking would have been negligible at that distance, and I doubt that any effects to the change of magma currents and pressures was efffected at that distance so swiftly. It took 6 hours for the Tsunami to propagate to Hawaii; I doubt magma displacement moves even that fast. Basically it's like saying a tornado in Kansas is responsible for rain in LA. Yeah, they're part of the same system of currents and rain and stuff, but cause and effect is a difficult beast.
The Russian peninsula is one of the most geologically active sites in the world. More volcanos than anywhere else on earth; they get something like one eruption a month*, but it usually goes unreported because it's fucking Siberia, and no one lives there, goes there or witnesses it except as a blip on a monitoring screen.
* I can't actually remember the actual number, but remember thinking it's really high.
Indonesia being related seems less likely to me. The shaking would have been negligible at that distance, and I doubt that any effects to the change of magma currents and pressures was efffected at that distance so swiftly. It took 6 hours for the Tsunami to propagate to Hawaii; I doubt magma displacement moves even that fast. Basically it's like saying a tornado in Kansas is responsible for rain in LA. Yeah, they're part of the same system of currents and rain and stuff, but cause and effect is a difficult beast.
I did not know that about the peninsula.
I figured the Indonesian eruption wasn't related to the earthquake. It is still interesting to look at the USGS website and look at all the earthquakes over there.
Why does nobody here mention the very possible nuclear desaster in Fokushima1.
That could get even worse then the flood.
Because apparently you haven't bothered to read what people have been posting in this thread for the last day or so? And like nuka said, most of the reporting is blowing things out of proportion.
Also, as far as Shinmoedake erupting today: Again, much of the media is overlooking the very important detail that it's been erupting on and off for several months now.
Eugh, and as a result of the media blowing the whole thing grossly out of proportion, it's going to re-ignited anti-nuclear power protests.
If anything, this whole event has shown that even in the chaos following one of the most destructive earthquakes in recent history, a failure of several reactors poses little threat to the surrounding population.
Why does nobody here mention the very possible nuclear desaster in Fokushima1.
That could get even worse then the flood.
I guess because the media is blowing it way out of proportion!
There are already alot of people affected by radiation who were evacuated form the 40miles area.
And they are cooling it with seawater. That is a very... ehm .. creative way of dealing with the problem because they don't know what to do.
I know someone working in a nuclear plant similar to Fokushima, and he says that it is a highly dangerous situation.
They don't even have any safety measures for the case of a meltdown.
Right now, it's only a partial meltdown but if the cooling doesn't work, the effects will be comparable with the events of Tschernobyl.
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first person view of the tsunami
crazy shit
But when Plato says it...
we call him crazy and say we want to know more
Steam
That's it.
This is getting silly. We're entering bad Sy Fy channel original movie territory here.
Why I fear the ocean.
That's pretty awesome.
Also holy shit that view of the tsunami. Fucking hell.
also:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article965229.ece/Japanese-volcano-erupts
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holy
there are no words
And in Indonesia a volcano erupted within an hour of the tsunami.
I dunno much about the sites these links are from fyi.
Mother of God! Those before/after photos are mind-shattering.
Oh man.
Okinawa is doing fine though so it's ok.
It's just
too much.
That's good.
God damn.......
a volcano is erupting now
plato told him, he didn't believe it
That could get even worse then the flood.
I guess because the media is blowing it way out of proportion!
Steam
It won't
By a long shot
It's an issue that makes for good headlines and distracts from the abject horror of the fact that 10,000 people may be dead, and several cities and towns have just disappeared.
Urrrgh I thought that was a joke until someone showed me an image of all the correlated Facebook updates etc.
I hate people
we had a ten page discussion about bananas dedicated to just that
The ''global warming caused the earthquake'' ones are worst
This is just like the documentary "The Day After Tomorrow"
COINCIDENCE?!
I think not
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* I can't actually remember the actual number, but remember thinking it's really high.
Indonesia being related seems less likely to me. The shaking would have been negligible at that distance, and I doubt that any effects to the change of magma currents and pressures was efffected at that distance so swiftly. It took 6 hours for the Tsunami to propagate to Hawaii; I doubt magma displacement moves even that fast. Basically it's like saying a tornado in Kansas is responsible for rain in LA. Yeah, they're part of the same system of currents and rain and stuff, but cause and effect is a difficult beast.
its a conspiracy
This and 2012 were actually announcements from the government, telling us what would happen soon in a subtle way, and they made money in the process
Man the Japanese are impressive. I don't think I could have kept my cool like those people were on top of that hill the camera man was walking up.
I figured the Indonesian eruption wasn't related to the earthquake. It is still interesting to look at the USGS website and look at all the earthquakes over there.
Because apparently you haven't bothered to read what people have been posting in this thread for the last day or so? And like nuka said, most of the reporting is blowing things out of proportion.
Also, as far as Shinmoedake erupting today: Again, much of the media is overlooking the very important detail that it's been erupting on and off for several months now.
like, the christchurch quake
rocks trying to move over one another are under extreme stresses and they can't move all at once, which is why quakes are so sudden
If anything, this whole event has shown that even in the chaos following one of the most destructive earthquakes in recent history, a failure of several reactors poses little threat to the surrounding population.
There are already alot of people affected by radiation who were evacuated form the 40miles area.
And they are cooling it with seawater. That is a very... ehm .. creative way of dealing with the problem because they don't know what to do.
I know someone working in a nuclear plant similar to Fokushima, and he says that it is a highly dangerous situation.
They don't even have any safety measures for the case of a meltdown.
Right now, it's only a partial meltdown but if the cooling doesn't work, the effects will be comparable with the events of Tschernobyl.