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@Edano, that would be what I just saw and heard to TBS cam. The sound is what altered me to it. And it was sharp horizontal-only jolts, the visual objects in the camera's field of view became spread out horizontally the jolts were so fast and sharp, like a a strong buzzzzz... for about 30 to 40 seconds.

TEPCO has posted its financial announcement, slides (PDF) in English bit.ly bit.ly

See ya in fourntennhundred weeks..gona

4.8 Ibaraki

Something is different with the last two EQ's....they are too far from Tokyo to be felt, yet the same person says he is feeling them.. both Quakes were in different locations..one offshore and one directly on land......one shallower 30km the on shore ibaraki 60 km deep.....yet they seem to travel......

I am not sure of this.....but i got another notice of a 4.9 only 34km away from Tokyo lvl 5.....now that sounds more plausible

Gov't crisis center kept in dark over data on radiation dispersal

TOKYO, May 20, Kyodo

The government crisis management center was not informed about data on the predicted dispersal of radioactive substances caused by the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, top government spokesman Yukio Edano said Friday.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano told a news conference that the premier's office received a fax of the computer-simulated estimates about the dispersal of radioactive materials in the early hours of March 12, a day after the powerful earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis, but this remained in the hands of an official at the office and was not passed on to him or Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

This would mean that Kan, when he inspected the Fukushima plant by air on the morning of March 12, was unaware of such estimates using the Nuclear Safety Technology Center's networked computer system known as SPEEDI, or system for prediction of environmental emergency dose information.

SPEEDI went down when the power went out and the instrumentation was lost. No data incoming makes it useless.

I know that earthquakes aren't really this board's subject but while we're discussing them this page www.geonet.org.nz shows the aftershock pattern after the two Christchurch NZ quakes - 262 of mag 4+ already.

Thanks @alblee - hadn't realised you were here!

[Thanks @hudebnik. I suddenly found an opportunity to come online and was backreading the scribble and found your request. :o) - Alblee]

Sorry I am having fat finger trouble with links today - the last was for #1, this www.houseoffoust.com is #2

atmc.jp Is glitched for me, is it glitched for anyone else?

@Ralph - 'server error'

One more TC is forming..... NW Pacific: Storm Alert issued at 20 May, 2011 6:00 GMT Tropical Depression FOUR (04W) is forecast to strike land to the following likelihood(s) at the given lead time(s): Yellow Alert City(s) and Town(s)
Yap (9.5 N, 138.0 E)
probability for CAT 1 or above is 10% in about 36 hours
probability for TS is 50% in about 36 hours
www.tropicalstormrisk.com

Yep, that is radiation by prefecture, the top of that link has links to the plant parameters and all those are offline.

@Ralph - and it seems to be only the Fuku reactor stats that are offline, the rest of the site seems to work.

BP gets $1 bln settlement from Gulf well partner "BP PLC said Thursday that MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, which had a 10 percent interest in the Macondo well, has agreed to pay $1.065 billion to settle all claims between the companies over the accident on the Deepwater Horizon rig." news.yahoo.com Kinda off topic but kinda not.

Um, why is unit 6 missing from the plant parameters report?

Are you guys talking about the broken stacks that fed hydrogen to the #4 reactor?