Japan Earthquake

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@lillymunster , when you read the tweets from the workers, you realize how contaminated the buildings are. When complicated work can only be carried out in a few minutes at a time, progress will be exceedingly slow. No way to get around that. The other issue this believe that contamination can be reduced by ignorance, that is raising limits. The stuff will re-distribute and pop up in the least anticipated locations, like exploding land mines. The government truly needs to develop a proactive, comprehensive, consolidated strategy to deal with the fallout. I'd collect all used car air filters and monitor the radiation as part of a national monitoring effort. Otherwise, because of the long half life of some radionuclides haphazard attempts of cleaning up hot spots here and there might continue until the Olympic Games, and nobody is going to come.
by Peter Melzer 7/18/2011 2:11:40 PM

by alblee 7/18/2011 2:33:39 PM

Thanks, @lillymunster, @Majj et al for typhoon posts.
This here (post below) is the satellite infra-red snapshot around 2132 JST. I've taken the liberty of circumscribing the proximate primary coverage of the typhoon (in tangerine-peach). Fukushima is well within the greater fringe (circumscribed in yellow) of the storm system.
Source: www.nemoc.navy.mil
From @lillymunster -->Web page of the typhoon with citizen updates www.timeout.jp
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by alblee 7/18/2011 2:34:26 PM

Links to live webcams at a few airports and other stations might be useful for monitoring the typhoon's progress on the ground, though it's already night time in Japan as I post this, but when day breaks tomorrow over there, Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday would be the grunt days of the typhoon
by alblee 7/18/2011 2:45:50 PM

@Bobby1 "It's not got much rat in it!"
by RadioGuy 7/18/2011 2:53:34 PM

@RadioGuy It reminds me of General Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove: "I didn't say we wouldn't get our hair mussed... 10, 20 million dead, tops."
by Bobby1 7/18/2011 3:01:59 PM

www.ssd.noaa.gov
The IR satellite loop of Ma-On lets you see the line it's been taking for the past 13 hours. (The Earth's terminator line shades it in the visible.) Look how hard it's trying to organize into a second typhoon to the NE.

[Thanks, @RadioGuy. That's one reason I made a second greater circumscription on my earlier image post of the typhoon logged 2132JST. - Alblee]
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by RadioGuy edited by alblee 7/18/2011 3:02:50 PM

Students in tsunami-hit region struggle to commute with railways still in shambles
mdn.mainichi.jp
by Panserbjorne9 7/18/2011 3:04:09 PM

TEPCO denies nuke crisis compensation to kindergartens, nursing homes and clinics

Kadowaki Elementary School, which was completely destroyed by the March 11 tsunami, is seen in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. (Mainichi)Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has refused to pay provisional compensation to kindergartens, nursing homes and health clinics affected by the ongoing crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, according to a document obtained by the Mainichi.
mdn.mainichi.jp
by Panserbjorne9 7/18/2011 3:04:45 PM

@Bobby1 I know. I think I'm going to call my little news segments "You can't make this stuff up" from now on.
by RadioGuy 7/18/2011 3:05:05 PM

It's getting to be like Salvador Dali does the news these days.
by RadioGuy 7/18/2011 3:05:47 PM

Tsunami reached record 40.4 meters in Miyako www.yomiuri.co.jp
by Panserbjorne9 7/18/2011 3:06:42 PM

Though I am simply unable to contain my glee seeing Rupert Murdoch's empire go down in the flames he's been fanning all these years. Does that make me a bad person?
by RadioGuy 7/18/2011 3:07:21 PM

ohhhh...okay then. 'Don't worry about eating a little bit of tainted beef' www.yomiuri.co.jp
by Panserbjorne9 7/18/2011 3:07:28 PM

@RadioGuy no, it's the epitome of karma.
by Panserbjorne9 7/18/2011 3:07:45 PM

It's not got much rat in it!
--Monty Python
by RadioGuy 7/18/2011 3:08:11 PM

@Panserbjorne9 We're about to see w hole lot of that go down.
by RadioGuy 7/18/2011 3:08:44 PM

Fukushima beef farmers facing uncertain future www.yomiuri.co.jp

[Almost everybody, I think; not just the beef farmers. - Alblee]
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by Panserbjorne9 edited by alblee 7/18/2011 3:09:38 PM

And if nuclear power was our best option? What then? www.abc.net.au
by Panserbjorne9 7/18/2011 3:11:48 PM

"Tepco- Crime and Punishment" a downloadable (for 4.99) 21 page e-article from Nikkei Business from their 4/25 cover story, translated to english. more details: business.nikkeibp.co.jp
by Panserbjorne9 7/18/2011 3:18:52 PM

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by lillymunster 7/18/2011 3:42:48 PM

www3.nhk.or.jp

TEPCO covers turbine building as storm approaches

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has built a makeshift roof over a turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as typhoon Ma-on approaches.

TEPCO started work to cover a hole in the roof of the No. 3 turbine building on Monday morning. The hole was caused by a hydrogen explosion in a neighboring reactor building in March.

The work ended 6 hours later when the makeshift metallic roof's three parts, each 5 meters long and 16 meters wide, were installed by a crane.

The roof is designed to prevent an increase of radioactive wastewater in the building.

TEPCO plans to cover another hole in the building's roof on Tuesday.

It is also stacking sandbags to prevent rainwater from entering the facility.

Monday, July 18, 2011 23:24 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 7/18/2011 3:49:51 PM

so there are 3 pieces a 5x16 meters ...
by Edano 7/18/2011 3:51:11 PM

www3.nhk.or.jp

Typhoon Ma-on brushes Kyushu

A very large and powerful typhoon, Ma-on, is over the seas southeast of Kyushu, bringing heavy winds and rain to the Pacific coast from western Japan to the central Tokai region.

The Meteorological Agency said Ma-on was expected to be 260 kilometers east-southeast of Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southeastern Japan, and moving north at 25 kilometers per hour at 7 PM on Monday.

The typhoon has a central atmospheric pressure of 945 hectopascals.

Winds of up to 162 kilometers per hour are blowing near its center, and more than 90 kilometers per hour in an area from 260 kilometers east of the center to 170 kilometers west.

30 millimeters of rain was recorded in Mie Prefecture in western Japan from 5 to 6 PM.

Winds of up to 113 kilometers per hour were recorded at an airport in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, before 5 PM.

Miyakonojo City in the prefecture issued an evacuation advisory for 900 residents of 460 households near Mount Shinmoe, saying heavy rain could trigger a mudslide containing ash and rock that the volcano has been spewing.

The typhoon is expected to continue moving north and approach Japan's main islands from Tuesday to Wednesday.

Up to 600 millimeters of rain is expected to fall in Shikoku, 500 millimeters in Kinki and Tokai, and 400 millimeters in southern Kyushu by Tuesday evening.

Winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour are forecast in Shikoku, 126 kilometers per hour in southern Kyushu.

Waves are forecast to reach a height of 10 to 12 meters in the Kyushu, Shikoku and southern Kinki regions.

Monday, July 18, 2011 23:24 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 7/18/2011 3:53:51 PM

More beef cattle fed irradiated straw

Fukushima and Niigata prefectures have identified more farms that shipped beef cattle that had been fed straw containing radioactive cesium in amounts above the government standard.

Fukushima Prefecture says 7 farms in 6 municipalities fed their cattle straw left outdoors after the March nuclear accident in the prefecture. The straw was found to contain radioactive cesium in amounts up to 520 times the standard.

The farms shipped 411 head of cattle to meat-processing facilities in 5 prefectures including Tokyo from late March to early July.

Fukushima asked local authorities to trace the meat and carry out radiation checks if any was found.

The prefecture also asked all cattle farms in the prefecture to voluntarily refrain from shipping and transferring their stock for the time being.

In Niigata Prefecture, radioactive cesium levels as high as 15 times the government standard were detected in straw given to beef cattle at 2 farms. The straw was from Miyagi Prefecture, which neighbors Fukushima.

One of the farms has shipped 24 head of cattle.

Investigators have found that a total of 578 head of cattle have been shipped after being fed contaminated straw. The amount of contaminated meat found to have been distributed to markets across the country is expected to rise.

Monday, July 18, 2011 23:24 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 7/18/2011 3:57:07 PM

there are no reasons to believe that people are better off than the cattle.
by Edano 7/18/2011 4:00:24 PM

english.kyodonews.jp

Typhoon nearing Japan
An iron sheet is lowered to cover a hole on the roof of the turbine building for the No. 3 reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on July 18, 2011, as a powerful typhoon, Ma-on, was moving in the Pacific toward Japan. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.) (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 7/18/2011 4:02:34 PM

hi all.. back for awhile... nice to be back
by dean 7/18/2011 4:23:03 PM

"The Monju reactor -- named after Manjusri, a bodhisattva worshipped at Chionji Temple facing Wakasa Bay -- is in the Fukui Prefecture city of Tsuruga, which also faces the bay. Plans for Monju were drafted in 1967, and the reactor was expected to be commercially viable by the 1980s. After numerous delays, it is now said the reactor won't be ready for practical use until 2050.

Shortly after Monju began running in 1995, an accident shut it down. In 2010, over 14 years since the previous accident, the reactor was restarted but was subsequently shut down due to more troubles. Thus far the government has pumped a total of 1 trillion yen into this project with no future, and is trying to continue spending more than 20 billion yen per year on it."
mdn.mainichi.jp
by Edano 7/18/2011 4:24:52 PM

Hi Dean!
by lillymunster 7/18/2011 4:36:36 PM

@Edano hmm. That is a pretty honest editorial. I thought Mainichi was their conservative paper?
by lillymunster 7/18/2011 4:45:50 PM

Hey dean, I have question for you. You live in Boise, right? Is Boise's water supply groundwater or from surface water? I have seen conflicting info.
by Bobby1 7/18/2011 4:46:19 PM

yes.. Bobby
by dean 7/18/2011 4:52:59 PM

sorry I stepped away
by dean 7/18/2011 4:53:03 PM

hi Lillly.. good to see you this morning
by dean 7/18/2011 4:53:26 PM

Boise water is from ground water through United Water Company.. @ Bobby
by dean 7/18/2011 4:53:58 PM

I think everyone in Japan has a holiday-worldcup hangover or they are hunkering down before the storm. Twitter has been quiet.
by lillymunster 7/18/2011 4:54:36 PM

@all added a page for the Typhoon with some of the links posted to maps etc to watch. We can add updates to it by posting or people can add things to the comments. wp.me
by lillymunster 7/18/2011 4:55:50 PM

www.unitedwater.com @ bobby
by dean 7/18/2011 4:56:36 PM

sounds good lilly
by dean 7/18/2011 4:57:06 PM

@dean Thanks, doing some statistics, looking to see if drinking water supply has anything to do with people dying.
by Bobby1 7/18/2011 4:59:57 PM

The water is sampled daily by the united water and I just talked to them and they do go by EPA standards and have seen no increases in the drinking water as reported today... @ Bobby.... they said if there were increases they would, by law, make broad announcements
by dean 7/18/2011 5:07:40 PM

there are a whole lot of domestic wells which are not sampled regularly unless a home owner decides to do it... those wells would be more shallow (approx 30-80 feet)
by dean 7/18/2011 5:08:44 PM

if, after the tsunami and earth quake, there were or have been contaminates of the bacterial form get into the water streams those who drink the water would
become very ill and I think a possibility of a loss of life if it was extreme
by dean 7/18/2011 5:10:23 PM

@dean I am sure the water companies are 100% effective and altruistic like you say, but I was going to check anyway. Unfortunately, there are several cities that I can't find the info for.
by Bobby1 7/18/2011 5:12:55 PM