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@UKVal Yes. Just that one 5+ (?) south of Niigata.

Need to find when the next high tide is for the Honshu area in Japan.

@wtm. No, it's not about the earth losing material by centrifugal force flinging material off the spinning globe. There are perhaps 3 theories offering an explanation of how the earth could be gaining mass and thereby increasing its radius. I don't believe the capture-of-cosmic-dust theory. The one I find most plausible is that new particles of matter are continually created in the earth's core and throughout its mass, as a result of incoming cosmic and solar radiation. E=mc squared can operate in reverse: new mass particles created by incoming energy. The theory suggests that the earth is gaining mass and therefore both its radius and gravitation are becoming greater over time. Therefore, the theory holds that the earth cracks and splits in various places to accomodate the larger radius. The brittle crust fractures (earthquakes) along the seams. Tectonic plate subduction has never been proven and there is much evidence to suggest it is flat-out wrong. The theory is well worth a few minutes to study and digest the relevant evidence both pro and con, and form your own conclusion. I think plate tectonics has been soundly repudiated but fair-minded people will want to judge the evidence in an unbiased manner and form their own conclusion on it.

wtm - you can do the same thing by enlarging the map of Japan - it gives you the location of all quakes in the last 48 hours. Guys please do this

@Radioguy, yep definitely showing movement !!! Way outside of the normal San Andreas fault areas that usually get a lot of quakes.

Mt St Helens had a 4.3, largest in 30 years, on Feb 14th www.oregonlive.com

Drawing forthcoming.

@Sky, If you notice that all the plate movement is mostly towards the West (with some exceptions) which is opposite of the spin of the Earth (spins East).

Opposite spin from the earth. Same as the apparent movement of the large gravitational force of the sun and moon dragging against the spin of the earth, as we change the temperature of the crust.

@LM, YES it may be moving NW, but it is going west too. LA will soon be where San Fran is !!! LOL.

@wtm a million years from now.

And an earthquake/tsunami took out a nuclear plant.

@wtm What BS! California won't fall off the end of the Earth. We'll have our version of the big one but I'm not going to buy into your Hollywood film. I'm outta here!!

@ elainekirk. Ines 3, 4

that was a question

I think they had the 4 spent pool at ines 3. Is that what they mean?

@Radioguy, do you have the times for high tide up your way ?

@Nancy, we had a photo of it's placement somewhere in the archives.

What is with ines for reactor 4 ? On wikipedia I see ines 7 for 1,2 and 3 but in jaif reports there is ines 7 for 1,2,3,4

The Japanese capital is only 300 kilometres (200 miles) from an underwater "triple junction" where three of the two dozen tectonic plates that comprise Earth's constantly shifting crust meet.

Tokyo sits atop the Eurasian plate. Beneath it, the Philippine Sea plate descends, or subducts, from the south, while the Pacific plate slips down from the east.

Subduction is not a slow-and-steady process, but occurs in a "stick-slip" motion that gives rise to infrequent, but massive, convulsions.

A major earthquake in or near Tokyo could cause a trillion dollars in damage, experts have calculated.

www.physorg.com