Japan Earthquake | Page 2819
@lillymunster Ok read the article. Maybe the author, Jeff Richardson, needs a phone call. If you decide to call, ask him if he was 'on the 5th floor' or 'in the basement' when communications were going on?by MaryW 12/28/2011 3:52:03 AM- @lillymunster If you didn't catch my drift, I quoted from this article. Panel: Wide Communication Gaps Hampered Response In Fukushima. Dec 27.2011. The task force was established at the crisis management center IN TH BASEMENT of the Prime Minister's Official Residence soon after...
But Kan's group... gathered ON THE FIFTH FLOOR to discuss how to respond to the accident as well as deciding on the evacuation zones. ...There was no legal basis for the formation of Kan's group...communications between the fifth floor and the basement were insufficient," the interim report said. webcache.googleusercontent.com
by MaryW 1:32 PMby MaryW 12/28/2011 3:55:36 AM 
@MaryW sheesh.. :-)by lillymunster 12/28/2011 3:56:32 AM- @lillymunster It reminds me of the game, CLUE :)by MaryW 12/28/2011 3:57:11 AM
- @MaryW It was the Prime Minister! In the 5th floor office! Without,,, any information?? :-)by lillymunster 12/28/2011 4:17:54 AM
- @lillymunster No, lillymunster, the Prime Minister was in the basement. Kan on the 5th floor. Nuclear fission was outside. :)by MaryW 12/28/2011 4:31:37 AM
- ¿Fukushima, la radiación y una posible pandemia de zombies?
Por Creer o ReventarMartes 27 de diciembre del 2011 blogs.tn.com.arby MaryW 12/28/2011 4:35:25 AM - ¿Fukushima, radiation and a possible pandemic of zombies?
For believe it or Trap Tuesday December 27, 2011 translate.google.comby MaryW 12/28/2011 4:42:07 AM - The recommendations are to make an EMERGENCY PLAN:
1. Store food, water and medicine.
2. Having a knife, duct tape, a battery radio and a few changes of clothing and bedsheets.
3. Keep cleaning supplies along with personal documents such as driver's license and birth certificate (which can certify the identity).
4. Having basic first aid items useful for a hurricane or pandemic.
All advice is worthwhile, but Khan admitted to the CDC's blog : "If a zombie bites you'll become one of them."by MaryW 12/28/2011 4:43:03 AM - -Radiation Exposure Cities Ranking radiation.monkut.webfactional.com -Radiation Levels To Date per City and Equvilents (Ranked by total Micro-grays) radiation.monkut.webfactional.comby MaryW 12/28/2011 5:11:21 AM
- Fukushima residents fume at poor nuke crisis response. December 28.2011. The interim report on the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has produced an angry backlash toward the poor response by the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. among people who were forced to evacuate from around the stricken plant.
"We had no idea where we should run to,"... www.asianewsnet.netby MaryW 12/28/2011 5:25:32 AM - Quake of 6.5 magnitude shatters Siberia
WSN Staff Posted December 28, 2011
A 6.5-magnitude quake hit the southern Siberian republic of Tuva Tuesday but there was no damage or casualties, an official said.
‘Everything is all right. Our dispatchers work round the clock and they did not receive any calls on any destruction,’ the spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said. www.wespeaknews.comby MaryW 12/28/2011 5:50:06 AM - Magnitude
6.6
Date-Time
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 15:21:56 UTC
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 10:21:56 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
51.858°N, 95.825°E
Depth
6.9 km (4.3 miles)
Region
SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA
Distances
96 km (59 miles) E of Kyzyl, Russia
336 km (208 miles) NE of Ulaangom, Mongolia
361 km (224 miles) ESE of Abakan, Russia
3744 km (2326 miles) ENE of MOSCOW, Russia
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 14.9 km (9.3 miles); depth +/- 6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Parameters
NST=227, Nph=227, Dmin=541 km, Rmss=0.82 sec, Gp= 36°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID
usc0007dax
earthquake.usgs.govby MaryW 12/28/2011 5:53:58 AM - by MaryW 12/28/2011 5:54:59 AM
- Biological Hazard in MultiCountries on Thursday, 13 October, 2011 at 04:59 (04:59 AM) UTC
Updated: Wednesday, 28 December, 2011 at 03:58 UTC
Description
Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Scores of ring seals have washed up on Alaska's Arctic coastline since July, suffering or killed by a mysterious disease marked by bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around the nose and eyes and patchy hair loss on the animals' fur coats. Biologists at first thought the seals were suffering from a virus, but they have so far been unable to identify one, and tests are now underway to find out if radiation is a factor. "We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St. Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity," said John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. "There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor's damage," he said. The results of the tests would not be available for "several weeks," Kelley said. Water tests have not picked up any evidence of elevated radiation in U.S. Pacific waters since the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which caused multiple fuel meltdowns at the Fukushima plant and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate the surrounding area. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been seeking the cause of the diseased seals for weeks, but have so far found no answers. hisz.rsoe.huby MaryW 12/28/2011 5:58:57 AM - Radioactive pollution in Athens, Greece due to the Fukushima nuclear accident. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.govby MaryW 12/28/2011 6:55:24 AM
- Radiation measurements in the Chiba Metropolitan Area and radiological aspects of fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants accident. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.govby MaryW 12/28/2011 6:57:18 AM
- 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident: summary of regional radioactive deposition monitoring results
www.sciencedirect.comby MaryW 12/28/2011 6:58:44 AM - Measurement of soil contamination by radionuclides due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and associated estimated cumulative external dose estimation.
www.sciencedirect.comby MaryW 12/28/2011 7:01:16 AM - Cesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident. There are many important agricultural regions in Japan. In Japan, the limit for the sum of 134Cs and 137Cs concentrations (as total cesium) in soil is 5,000 Bq kg-1 under the Food Sanitation Law (24). Considering that about half (2,500 Bq kg-1) of the total radioactive cesium deposition is due to 137Cs, the east Fukushima prefecture exceeded this limit and some neighboring prefectures such as Miyagi, Tochigi, and Ibaraki are partially close to the limit under our upper bound estimate (Movie S4) and, therefore, local-scale exceedance is likely given the strong spatial variability of 137Cs deposition. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.govby MaryW 12/28/2011 7:07:29 AM
- morning! have news to post in a fewby lillymunster 12/28/2011 12:25:36 PM
- @lillymunster Re: The new German house: Not very impressive. In Portugal you can install a home solar panel system from EDP that produces between 33,638 kWy and 37,843 kWy. That's twice as much power as that new German system produces.by Pedro Jesus 12/28/2011 12:39:55 PM
- @Pedro Jesus wow. Can you find a link to the panels your talking about? Could location be part of the difference? It is probably much sunnier and intense in Portugal than Berlin?by lillymunster 12/28/2011 12:53:56 PM
- Inside the exclusion zone www.dailymail.co.ukby lillymunster 12/28/2011 12:55:40 PM
I found where Edano went, he was inspecting the Mitsubuishi reactor factory english.kyodonews.jp
by lillymunster via English.kyodonews.jp 12/28/2011 12:56:44 PM- Residents sue for complete closures of Genkai mdn.mainichi.jpby lillymunster 12/28/2011 12:57:17 PM
- Gov't adopts report proposing drastic reform of utility system mdn.mainichi.jp
Gov't to enhance tsunami measures, panel doubles quake focal area mdn.mainichi.jpby lillymunster 12/28/2011 12:58:25 PM - EDITORIAL: Fukushima report highlights crisis management flaws ajw.asahi.comby lillymunster 12/28/2011 12:59:39 PM
- Gov't decides basic policy of reclassifying Fukushima evacuation zones mdn.mainichi.jpby lillymunster 12/28/2011 12:59:48 PM
- @lillymunster These are the offers they have for home solar systems at the moment: www.microgeracaoedp.com Let me know if you need help with translation.by Pedro Jesus 12/28/2011 1:04:02 PM
@lillymunster are you looking for me ?by Edano 12/28/2011 1:04:04 PM- "Japan's nuclear response filled with errors, report says" (Matt Smith and Yoko Wakatsuki) edition.cnn.comby Pedro Jesus 12/28/2011 1:05:04 PM
- @Edano you were busy at Mitsubushi so I restarted the board. :-)by lillymunster 12/28/2011 1:05:06 PM
- @Pedro Jesus thanks, will check it out!by lillymunster 12/28/2011 1:05:38 PM
- the panels are on the roof and the southeast wall. these panels are partly (old) solar thermal panels, the others are photovoltaic panels. the photovoltaic panels have a lower energy output, but they produce electric energy, while the solarthermal panels only heat water. i think this may be what pedro refers to.by Edano 12/28/2011 1:10:00 PM
- @Edano that would explain some of the output disparity.by lillymunster 12/28/2011 1:14:02 PM
- 9 DPJ members quit in protest against tax increase ajw.asahi.comby lillymunster 12/28/2011 1:17:02 PM
- @Edano The panels EDP is using in their systems are state-of-the-art latest generation photovoltaic panels so, maybe that allied to more sunlight throughout the year makes the difference. On the other hand, houses in Portugal will consume more energy because the equipment usually used is class B or C. Of course if one allies class A++ (more expensive) appliances with the photovoltaic systems one might produce a lot more power than consumed. I've met a few people here who sell electric energy to the grid but the investment can be quite big. Class A++ appliances are still very expensive around here (the most power efficient are actually produced in Germany or elsewhere (PRC for example) but of German design so I guess they will be a lot cheaper in Germany than around here.by Pedro Jesus 12/28/2011 1:20:27 PM
- yesterday i read an article about the difference of the panel types, but i don't find it anymore. the current research goes to intelligent grids where you produce electric energy and store it e.g. in car batteries. they do not use the solarthermal panels so much, though they have a higher output (in kw). this is criticized by environmentalists, they don't like the "electricity centered" power generation.by Edano 12/28/2011 1:21:32 PM
- it is a question of the overall philosophy.by Edano 12/28/2011 1:22:19 PM
- @Pedro Jesus we nearly exclusively have AAA equipment here. that is really interesting. you hardly find refrigerators or washing mashines below AAA efficiency. i thought this would be the same in other countries.by Edano 12/28/2011 1:25:51 PM
- i just bought a mini dish washer because i needed a cheap and small one without caring for the efficency, and i was really surprised when i found it to be "double" AAA. i just paid 120 euros for it.by Edano 12/28/2011 1:30:31 PM
- @Edano Not so, we still get a lot of class B and C appliances around here. German technology is the most advanced for home appliances so it is only natural that the best equipment is made available in the German market before any other. To give an example of how bad that particular situation is in Portugal, my Singer washing machine that was bought new about 5 years ago is class G... I'm planning on buying maybe a Bosch class A++ next year. They cost around 400-500€.by Pedro Jesus 12/28/2011 1:37:18 PM
- hmmm i thought we had a common market...really strange.by Edano 12/28/2011 1:39:22 PM
- @Edano We do in theory but in practice it doesn't work that well... if you compare the auto market, the differences are even more extreme. Some German cars cost almost twice as much here than in Germany. We have a common market but the taxes are very different. Our VAT, for example, is at 23% at the moment.by Pedro Jesus 12/28/2011 1:43:44 PM
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