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Magnitude Mw 7.5
Region KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Date time 2011-10-21 17:57:17.0 UTC
Location 29.15 S ; 176.07 W
Depth 40 km
Distances 1193 km NE Tauranga (pop 110,338 ; local time 06:57:17.5 2011-10-22)
895 km S Nuku'alofa (pop 23,611 ; local time 06:57:17.5 2011-10-22)
876 km S Ohonua (pop 1,241 ; local time 06:57:17.5 2011-10-22)
www.emsc-csem.orgby estacion 10/21/2011 7:46:14 PM
@estacion any word on damage/injuries?by lillymunster 10/21/2011 7:48:53 PM- I saw the Unit 1 visit discussion you had this morning, but did not have time to comment. Plenty details are still unclear. Why did only one of the two isolation condensers work to begin with, and how could the cooling water in the working condenser boil away? This is supposed to be a closed-loop system as much as I know. The condenser tanks did not seem busted in the vid. Most damage seems to have afflicted class (schedule?) B and C piping. But there is severe damage to the reactor building which is a class A structure. I hear plenty water gushing and wonder where that happens. I know that the control room operator shut the only operating condenser down after 15 minutes or so to prevent the RPV from cooling down faster than instructed, that was 55 degrees C/h. I wrote about this here: brainmindinst.blogspot.comby Peter 10/21/2011 7:56:01 PM
- No yet. No tsunami warning, but the EQ was very big and ocurred right in the Kermadec Trench. Expect aftershock long over the trench.by estacion 10/21/2011 7:58:53 PM
- @Peter Did you get anything out of the valves & gauges? I grabbed screenshots of what I couldby lillymunster 10/21/2011 7:59:07 PM
no population near epicenter.by Edano 10/21/2011 8:01:14 PM- there were two quakes near to each other:
7.3 Date-Time [UTC]: 21 October, 2011 at 17:57:13 UTC Haatua, Tonga hisz.rsoe.hu
7.5 Date-Time [UTC]: 21 October, 2011 at 17:57:17 UTC Ohonua, Tonga hisz.rsoe.huby Edano 10/21/2011 8:07:22 PM - tsunami warning for hawaii and pacific ocean. hisz.rsoe.huby Edano 10/21/2011 8:08:52 PM
@Edano oh noby elainekirk 10/21/2011 8:10:04 PM- 000
WEPA42 PHEB 211844
TIBPAC
TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 002
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1844Z 21 OCT 2011
THIS BULLETIN APPLIES TO AREAS WITHIN AND BORDERING THE PACIFIC
OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS...EXCEPT ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...
WASHINGTON...OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.
... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...
THIS BULLETIN IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.
THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 1757Z 21 OCT 2011
COORDINATES - 28.9 SOUTH 176.0 WEST
DEPTH - 40 KM
LOCATION - KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAGNITUDE - 7.4
MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY
GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER
------------------- ----- ------ ----- --------------- -----
BOAT COVE RAOUL IS 29.3S 177.9W 1816Z 0.10M / 0.3FT 06MIN
FISHING ROCK RAOUL 29.3S 177.9W 1826Z 0.17M / 0.6FT 08MIN
LAT - LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)
LON - LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)
TIME - TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME)
AMPL - TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.
IT IS ...NOT... CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.
VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).
PER - PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.
EVALUATION
SEA LEVEL READINGS INDICATE A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. IT MAY HAVE
BEEN DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. FOR
THOSE AREAS - WHEN NO MAJOR WAVES ARE OBSERVED FOR TWO HOURS
AFTER THE ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL OR DAMAGING WAVES HAVE NOT
OCCURRED FOR AT LEAST TWO HOURS THEN LOCAL AUTHORITIES CAN ASSUME
THE THREAT IS PASSED. DANGER TO BOATS AND COASTAL STRUCTURES CAN
CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS DUE TO THE CONTINUING SEA LEVEL
CHANGES AND RAPID CURRENTS. AS LOCAL CONDITIONS CAN CAUSE A WIDE
VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE ALL CLEAR DETERMINATION MUST
BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
NO TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS FOR OTHER COASTAL AREAS IN THE PACIFIC
ALTHOUGH SOME OTHER AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE SMALL NON-DESTRUCTIVE
SEA LEVEL CHANGES LASTING UP TO SEVERAL HOURS.
THIS WILL BE THE FINAL BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.
THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE PRODUCTS
FOR ALASKA...BRITISH COLUMBIA...WASHINGTON...OREGON...CALIFORNIA.by estacion 10/21/2011 8:10:39 PM - Anybody got detail of the nuclear 'event ' in pakistan on edano's link hisz.rsoe.huby elainekirk 10/21/2011 8:12:28 PM
- Link to above txt. ptwc.weather.govby estacion 10/21/2011 8:12:33 PM
- I found a bit towards the area I was trying to look up. It is a Satoyama community in Fukushima. Still trying to find the name of the one in quesiton.by lillymunster 10/21/2011 8:14:53 PM
- @elainekirk yes, they lost heavy water, but leak is closed now.by Edano 10/21/2011 8:16:31 PM
- @Edano tyby elainekirk 10/21/2011 8:19:05 PM
- Found it! Nagadoro in Iitate - looks like they were part of the secondary evacuation www.istockanalyst.comby lillymunster 10/21/2011 8:20:51 PM
- vehicle accident in bushehr, 12 missed, 60 evacuated. hisz.rsoe.hu i wonder if they killed some nuke engineers again.by Edano 10/21/2011 8:21:20 PM
- why hasnt japan got a nuke hazard symbol on the alert map?by elainekirk 10/21/2011 8:26:56 PM
- @elainekirk yes, they removed it some time ago :/by Edano 10/21/2011 8:28:01 PM
- @Edano so scotland is more hazardous than Japanby elainekirk 10/21/2011 8:36:33 PM
- @elainekirk scotland has nessie, japan only rumors.by Edano 10/21/2011 8:37:31 PM
- @lillymunster , no idea lilly,:(. But it would be difficult to interpret the dials in any case, unless you know that the hands still move in a meaningful way.by Peter 10/21/2011 8:44:46 PM
- No tsunami after Kermadec quake www.nzherald.co.nz www.bloomberg.comby Edano 10/21/2011 8:45:46 PM
- @Edano nessie, godzilla....by lillymunster 10/21/2011 8:49:16 PM
- @lillymunster godzilla is not real.by Edano 10/21/2011 8:50:38 PM
- ;0
@Edano nessie is though isn't sheby elainekirk 10/21/2011 8:52:51 PM - godzilla is an unfounded rumor :)by Edano 10/21/2011 8:55:12 PM
- @Edano he is he is a rumour causing fear and panicby elainekirk 10/21/2011 9:02:56 PM
- Off to town to get more glue sticks. BRBby lillymunster 10/21/2011 9:19:07 PM
- @lillymunster 42 incidents logged and countingby elainekirk 10/21/2011 10:28:35 PM
- @elainekirk wow! that is a lot.by lillymunster 10/21/2011 10:57:19 PM
- Radiation checks to strengthen for marine products, seawater
October 21, 2011
The science ministry and the Fisheries Agency will strengthen testing on marine products and widen the survey for seawater for radiation contamination from the damaged Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant.
The tests on marine products will be conducted once a week, in principle, depending on the size of the fish hauls, in Fukushima, Miyagi and Ibaraki prefectures.
The tested marine products will either be bought or taken from samples on a survey ship, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Fisheries Agency said Oct. 20.
The government eased restrictions on land use outside the 20-kilometer no-entry zone around the plant in September. It will now test waters 20-30 km from the plant for radiation, and eventually survey seawater beyond 280 km from the coast using more accurate instruments, officials said.
ajw.asahi.comby lillymunster 10/21/2011 10:58:39 PM - 70% in temporary housing unable to find work www.yomiuri.co.jpby lillymunster 10/21/2011 11:01:44 PM
- @lillymunster it all seems rather slap dash monitoringby elainekirk 10/21/2011 11:34:32 PM
- I am just getting to end of japc ines report for their npp's still have other power companies to do yet :)by elainekirk 10/21/2011 11:40:27 PM
- 57.5 msv hot spot in Chiba www.city.kashiwa.lg.jpby lillymunster 10/21/2011 11:40:37 PM
- @elainekirk wow. Finding lots of things?by lillymunster 10/21/2011 11:41:06 PM
- North Anna might restart end of November nuclearstreet.comby lillymunster 10/21/2011 11:47:32 PM
ooo I found one unbelievable... well I found many but this one... www2.jnes.go.jp amazingby elainekirk 10/21/2011 11:51:15 PM- @Edano I didnt get chance to watch thatby elainekirk 10/21/2011 11:51:32 PM
- by Edano 10/21/2011 11:51:40 PM
- @Edano oooo my mispent youth :)by elainekirk 10/21/2011 11:55:06 PM
- yeah - yeahyeahyeahyeahby Edano 10/21/2011 11:56:07 PM
- @Edano LOL - now I will have that song stuck in my head all night.by lillymunster 10/21/2011 11:56:45 PM
- you know what - we are old.by Edano 10/21/2011 11:57:52 PM
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