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You might be interested in this from GNS Science, the New Zealand equivalant of USGS. It has relevance to the Fukushima earthquake:
Scientists studying February's magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch have discovered at least four seismic effects combined to produce unusually high ground-shaking in the Garden City.
The ground accelerations in Christchurch, the largest ever recorded for a New Zealand earthquake, were as much as four times higher than the highest accelerations measured in this month’s magnitude 9 earthquake off the east coast of Japan.
nzresources.com

There's now a 30% chance of another of similar magnitude in the next month. www.stuff.co.nz

@elaine - this is the doc www.kantei.go.jp chapter 4 I think has the EQ info.

@elainekirk hope there is more to it, that does not look eq proof imho

Tokyo begins radiation checks at 100 locations
TOKYO, June 15 (KUNA) -- The Tokyo metropolitan government on Wednesday began checking radiation levels in the air at about 100 locations across the city to provide more accurate information in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Under the weeklong program, the metropolitan government will take the radiation measurements near the ground at six to seven locations per day during the week, and release the data to the public everyday on its website after each measurement.
On the first day of the survey program at a park in Toshima Ward, government staff measured 0.06 microsieverts of radiation 1 meter above the ground and 0.07 microsieverts at 5 centimeters above ground, against the allowable limit of 1 millisievert for citizens in a year. A single chest X-ray delivers 100 microsieverts and an airport scan delivers 0.02 microsieverts.
The metropolitan government had only measured radiation levels at a 19-meter high monitoring post on the roof of a building in Shinjuku Ward, central Tokyo.
However, it received a number of requests from municipalities for more detailed and expanded assessment by taking measurements near the ground across Tokyo amid continued concerns over radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
www.kuna.net.kw

@elainekirk My guess is, Amano being Japanese he would rather read TEPCO's original reports than their bad translations. He must have someone working close to him who translates TEPCO's original reports to fluent English, unlike TEPCO.

Iitate holdouts find nuclear refugee option hard choice: search.japantimes.co.jp

Hong Kong Radiation Exceeds Tokyo Even After Nuclear Crisis news.businessweek.com
"April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Typical amounts of radiation in Hong Kong exceed those in Tokyo even as workers struggle to contain a crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, indicating concerns about spreading contamination may be overblown." (?!)
"Radiation in Tokyo is barely above levels in London and New York even now, analysts said.
“The situation in Japan looks set to follow the pattern of Chernobyl, where fear of radiation did far more damage than the radiation itself,” Bury said.(?!)

The rest is too bad a mix of fact and omission to quote, but it's worth posting to see how writers use science and selective omission to convince an audience.

All this anti nuclear activity when do people really wake up ? Did we make cold fusion work while i was asleep ? Come on be realistic there is a power need out there, even thou we keep inventing new power saving devices, the energy need will keep rising due to more and more gadgets we cant live without.

@WolfDK In the face of potential extinction I think we [Mankind] should re-evaluate the need for nuclear [fission] energy. How many more Chernobyl/Fukushima can Mankind outlive? Nuclear fusion, if ever, won't be available before 2050. Renewable energy sources can provide enough output if a major worldwide investment is made. It's just a matter of changing the energy paradigm. The automotive industry is a good example. Hydrogen is a fair replacement. It just needs more serious investment to become cost efficient and profitable in the short term. Coal and oil won't do in the medium, long term either.

Hydrogen cars will only work if you can make hydrogen on demand from a non flammable source. You have already seen a hydrogen explosion, think of car pileup on the freeway.. Wind and solar energy sources are not powerful enough yet, a huge wind turbine (worlds biggest) generates around 7MW peak (when there is enough wind). A four reactor nuclear complex usually generates around 4000 MW, that equals ~570 of the worlds biggest wind turbines working at 100%. The calculations are much worse using solar panels (progress is expected soon, new tech is on the horizon)