Massive Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

[Mr Khan]

makingmusic476 said:

Definitely trouble at the Fukushima power station:

BBC 23:10GMT: More from the Tokyo Electric Power Company: It says the ability to control pressure in some of the reactors at Fukushima-Daini has been lost. Pressure is stable inside the reactors, but rising in the containment vessels, a company spokesman says.

10.45pm GMT: Now there are reports from nuclear plant operator Tepco that the Fukushima No 2 plant has lost cooling to three of its reactors.

It was one reactor in the Fukushima No 1 plant that had been the cause for concern earlier – so this news is certainly unwelcome.

And both coastal Japan and the Earth's axis have been shifted:

The US Geological Survey is reporting that the coast of Japan has shifted 8 feet (2.4m) because of the earthquake in Japan. The Earth's axis has reportedly been shifted 10 inches too.

The force of the quake was so strong that it moved the island of Honshu 8 feet to the east, said USGS geophysicist Ken Hudnut. It sped up the Earth's rotation by 1.6 microseconds, according to NASA

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5781147/the-usgs-says-the-japan-coast-has-shifted-8-feet-because-of-the-earthquake

http://www.kval.com/news/tech/117828293.html

Yikes. Now they're talking of meltdown danger