11/28/2013 Quake near Iran nuclear plant kills 8

Source: Reuters via YNet News
Date: 11/28/2013 22:02

A picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency shows Iranians gathering amid rubble in the Iranian western city of Borazjan, on Nov. 28, after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country. AFP photo / ISNA

At least eight people were killed and 190 were injured in an earthquake in Iran on Thursday near the city of Bushehr, where the country's sole nuclear power plant is situated, state news agency IRNA reported.

The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 5.6, struck about 40 miles (60 km) northeast of Bushehr on the Gulf coast, according to US Geological Survey data. No damage to the nuclear plant was reported.
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Editor's Note: See also 5.7-magnitude earthquake near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant kills at least eight from
Agence France-Presse.  Below is the map of the 5.6 magnitude quake.

9/19/2013 Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake hits near Fukushima I Nuclear Plant Area

Source(s): ENENews, USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Date: 2013-09-19 17:25:09 UTC (2013-09-19 11:25:09 CST)

M5.3 - 19km ESE of Ishikawa, Japan 2013-09-19 17:25:09 UTC

I grabbed the earthquake report off of the ENENews feed which collates several articles together, which are available here from ENENews. In summary TEPCO has been checking for earthquake damage and leaks but state they have not found anything (yet). Below is a map of the M5.8 Earthquake.

8/29/2012 STRONGest Quake since April 2011 Rocks Japan off Fukushima & update

Source: MsMilkytheclown
Date: 8/29/2012

Video Description

The strongest quake since last April 2011 Rocks Japan with a 5.6 magnitude
Nankai Trough quake could kill 323,000 in Japan - experts predict
Installation of 3 tsunami censors t be installed in October
Oh, don't let me forget Prime Minister Noda is Still a Dirt Bag. No confidence.
Nuclear power reactors need only a high school diploma to earn approx $100,000/year
global warming smoking gun sea ice lowest ever! HELLO! RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT!
JAPAN nuclear fallout to CALIFORNIA FOOD CONTAMINATION LINK HERE
http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/California-Radiation.pdf

Latest Headlines: http://enenews.com/

*3:05p ET* Intense quake hits Fukushima's neighboring prefecture — 4th highest classification on Japan seismic scale (MAP)

Official Sinkhole Website: Eye of Isaac to be over area for "FIVE HOURS" — Hurricane strength winds begin at 3p ET (MAP)

Study: Disease-related deaths surged after 3/11 — Heart unable to pump enough blood around body (See also: Cesium-137 not slow acting, immediately damages heart muscle)

Local Official on CNN: Worse than worst case scenario; "This is not a category 1, I don't care what anybody says" — Eye wall remains on track to hit sinkhole, now about 25 miles away (MAP & VIDEO)

Tepco: "Grit found in spaces between the rods" from Fukushima No. 4 fuel pool — Only a 'visual examination' after over a month

Official Sinkhole Website: "EYE WALL projected to be over us" at noon — Winds up to 100 mph

Expert: Rain, water may enter sinkhole and dissolve salt from above (VIDEO)

Isaac already causing sinkhole troubles (PHOTO)

Fukushima Mom: 5 hospitals refuse to provide medical care to children; "We can't be seen by a doctor when we want to be seen"... "It is just not right" — Doctor: It will be confusing if our result is different than Fukushima Medical University

Head of Fukushima Thyroid Exams: I'm trying to help "so that Japan as a country will not fall apart" — Lawsuits over health effects would victimize all Japanese

Issac upgraded to hurricane — Eye of storm headed for sinkhole — Assumption Parish now under mandatory evacuation order

Tepco: Dozen pieces of rubble found in fuel rod assembly removed from Fukushima No. 4 unit

Japan Newspaper: Hospitals refused to treat Fukushima plant workers

Radiation Expert: "There are immediate radiation dose concerns" from sinkhole — Gov't is in denial — "They don't know what to do about the radioactive contamination"

Chemical Expert: Residents will be exposed to extremely dangerous alpha radiation coming from sinkhole — Radioactive dust inhaled after carried by wind, surface water

Forbes: Untold numbers of endangered whales intervene in California nuke plant testing

WSJ MarketWatch: Cancer was "bound to happen" to animal grazing 5 miles downwind of Connecticut nuclear power plant

Governor says more boom being deployed in sinkhole — Winds up to 100 mph expected in area — All monitors within community being removed — Texas Brine in 'Hurricane Mode'

Gundersen on Gamma Rays: "Implies rubble was activated by neutrons, or that activation products like Cobalt-60 are in rubble — Interesting"

Editor's Note: Map of the M5.6 Earthquake mentioned in the video is below.

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8/7/2012 Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake 39 miles NW of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

Source: Los Angeles Times, USGS
Date: 8/7/2012 11:23 PM PST

Source: USGS

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled Southern California on Tuesday night. The quake was reported at 11:23 p.m. and was centered around Yorba Linda in northern Orange County.
There was no immediate word of injuries or damage, but the quake was felt over a wide area.
According to the the U.S. Geological Survey, the temblor struck two miles northeast of Yorba Linda, about 29 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
It was felt from Long Beach northwest to Santa Monica, as well as in downtown L.A.
-- Shelby Grad
Map: U.S. Geological Survey

Editor's Note: Using the Google Maps distance measuring too, this earthquake is 39 miles Northwest of the San Onofre Nuclear Station as shown in the nuclear map below.

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7/20/2012 Osaka, Sapporo Eyed As Standby Capital After 'Big One'

Source:  The Nikkei via Prisonplanet.com
Date: Friday, July 20, 2012

TOKYO (Nikkei)--A Cabinet Office council has proposed five cities -- Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya and Fukuoka -- to replace Tokyo as the seat of government should an earthquake knock out the capital.
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7/9/2012 [VIDEO] Fukushima: MAN MADE DISASTER (NOT Tsunami OR Earthquake) & update for last week

Source: MsMilkyTheClown
Date: 7/9/2012

Video Description

I've been out of town and my power went out before going out of town. Trying to catch up on Fukushima updates. I admit it, I didn't miss doing these updates at All. In fact, this may be my last update, just FYI, but this one was an important one to end on if I do stop my reports. I'm just about as "done" as a spent fuel rod - in a "safe" cooling pool.

A Japanese Government DIET panel investigation states that neither the Tsunami NOR the Earthquake caused the triple nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi. Lots of blame in many directions... but here's the update from July 5, 2012. Added to this video, I should have noted that Jelly Fish have invaded the intake valve in the Ohi (Oi) plant they started up last week, clogging the intake to the cooling water. *sigh*
http://enenews.com/ Headlines for the last week and a halfish.

"Radiation-contaminated prefectures such as Chiba (near Tokyo) should also start a serious health damage survey as soon as possible"

New photos of tsunami hitting Fukushima plant released by Tepco

Report: Mortality rising in contaminated regions of East Japan — "Very likely the number of cases of disease and death increased associated with radiation"

Posts mentioning 'leukemia' get deleted says Japanese man diagnosed with acute leukemia after 3/11

Study: Contaminated water from Fukushima reactors could double radioactivity levels of US coastal waters in 5 years — "We were surprised at how quickly the tracer spread" (PHOTO & VIDEO)

Documentary: We're still in danger from Reactor No. 4 because Tepco can't get their act together -Fukushima Resident (VIDEO)

Bacteria vs. Nuclear Waste: Scientists finding microorganisms may threaten storage of radioactive waste

Gundersen: Essentially Northern Japan is Contaminated (VIDEO)

Failed power supply at No. 4 fuel pool shows evidence of fire — Tepco says it's "covered with soot" (PHOTOS)

Nuclear Engineer Concerned About Unit 4 Support Structure: Is it going to just punch through the floor and through cracks? — What is the load transferred to? Something that's also flimsy? (VIDEO)

Incredibly contaminated house dust nearly 100 miles from Fukushima Daiichi — Gundersen: We're getting a lot of Japanese sending us their vacuum bags (VIDEO)

Large outbreak of jellyfish swarm Japan's only restarted nuclear plant — May delay full operation of reactor

Caldicott: "We're talking about a disaster of unbound proportions" from Fukushima Daiichi — 2.5 to 3 million deaths a possibility (VIDEO)

Gundersen: We just tested an air filter that has highest radioactivity seen in North America after Fukushima Daiichi — Found in Seattle HEPA filter used since 3/11 (VIDEO)

Watch: Police clamp down in Tokyo streets — "We're not allowed to get anywhere near protest" (VIDEO)

Gov't Report: Reactor 3 may have had second meltdown a week after first

Japanese journalist's call for evacuating children from Tokyo causing controversy

Gundersen: Latest probe at Unit 1 indicates nuclear fuel has left containment (VIDEO)

Remaining portion of Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 seen from Kyodo helicopter (PHOTOS)

Asahi: 150,000 join Tokyo protest organizer says — Reporter Eyewitness: "There are more than 100,000 people"

and so on...

4/11/2012 Massive 8.6 then 8.2 magnitude quakes occur close together near Indonesia

Source(s): Wall Street Journal (First Video), USGS, Dutchsinse
Date: 2012-04-11 03:38:37 AM CST (M8.6) and 2012-04-11 05:43:09 AM CST (M8.2)

Two massive quakes have occured in the Indian Ocean near indonesia:  a M8.6 and M8.2 very close together. The details are below.

2/15/2012 20 Times More Japanese Earthquakes in the 6 Months Following March 2011 than in the Previous 9 YEARS … Quake May Have “Awakened” Fukushima Fault

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: February 15, 2012

Pandora’s Box?

We have extensively documented the fact that engineers knew that Fukushima was built in an area which was highly-susceptible to giant earthquakes, and that it would fail in a large earthquake.

Unfortunately, Pandora’s Box may now have been opened.
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2/13/2012 Magnitude 5.5 Reported in North California

Source: CNN
Date: updated 4:37 PM EST, Mon February 13, 2012

(CNN) -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Northern California on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake's epicenter was six miles from Weitchpec, about 120 miles west of Redding, at a depth of 20.4 miles, according to USGS. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

[Editor's Note.  This quake is not near any nuclear power plants that I could see. 

dutchsinse video report:


Map of quake below:

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2/5/2012 Magnitude 5 Earthquake Strikes Near Iran’s Bushehr Nuke Plant

Source: Rianovosti
Date: 13:38 05/02/2012

The Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran

MOSCOW, February 5 (RIA Novosti)

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in south Iran, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website on Sunday.

The earthquake struck at 9:40 a.m. local time (06:10 GMT) on Sunday some 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Bushehr, with its epicenter registered at a depth of 10 km.

There were no reports so far of any casualties or damage to the nuclear power plant caused by the quake.
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2/1/2012 New Risks for Nuclear Plants

Source: Wall Street Journal
Date: 2/1/2012
By: REBECCA SMITH

Nuclear reactors in the central and eastern U.S. face previously unrecognized threats from big earthquakes, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday. Experts said upgrading the plants to withstand more substantial earth movements would be costly and could force some to close.

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1/1/2012 Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Felt in Tokyo

Source: ITN News


Editor's Note: The quake was felt in Tokyo, but no damage or injuries were reported.

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11/24/2011 -- 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Japan after yesterdays 6.1M

Source: Dutchsinse
Date: 11/24/2011


See also:  M6.1 quake strikes off south coast of Hokkaido

Editor's Note: USGS Report and map of quake below.

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10/13/2011 Strong earthquake [Magnitude 5.9] hits off the coast of Oregon, no damage

Source: Lincoln Tribune
Date: October 13, 2011 – 1:38 am 

COOS BAY, OREGON (BNO NEWS) -- A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon on early Wednesday evening, seismologists said, but there were no reports of damage or casualties and no tsunami warning was issued.

The 5.9-magnitude earthquake at 8.13 p.m. local time (0413 GMT Thursday) was centered about 144 miles (233 kilometers) west of Coos Bay, a city located in Coos County on the Pacific coast. It struck about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The USGS said it did not expect to see damage or casualties due to the earthquake's distance from the coast, and there were no immediate reports of tremors being felt anywhere along the coast.

Wednesday's earthquake was one of the strongest earthquakes to hit off the coast of Oregon in recent years, but no tsunami warning was issued by the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WCATWC).
(Copyright 2011 by BNO News B.V. All rights reserved. Info: sales@bnonews.com.)

Editor's Note: This earthquake was downgraded by the USGS to a Magnitude 5.3.

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10/3/2011 NRC: Dominion's post-quake response appropriate

Source: Forbes
Date: 10.03.11, 05:44 PM EDT
by: MICHAEL FELBERBAUM

MINERAL, Va. -- Two nuclear reactors at Dominion Virginia Power's North Anna Power Station did not sustain any significant damage from the Aug. 23 earthquake and the company responded appropriately when the reactors were automatically shut down, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday. 
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Editor's Note: North Anna Nuclear Generating Station shown in map below.

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9/24/2011 Small Businesses in Disaster Areas Pin Hopes on "Social Fund"

Source: Japan 7 Days
Date: Saturday September 24, 2011
by: Minori Takao


A new business model called the "social fund" is giving hope to businesses in the areas afflicted by the March earthquake and tsunami. The approach allows anyone who wants to help a organization revive itself get the process going by contributing funds. As little as 10,000 yen ($130) is acceptable.

More than 40,000 small and midsize firms in the three hardest-hit prefectures are thought to have suffered damage. Many of them have been unable to take out new bank loans because of existing debts for previous purchases. The "social fund" could be their last resort.

9/16/2011 Magnitude 6.6 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Source: USGS

Earthquake Details

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude	6.6
Date-Time	Friday, September 16, 2011 at 19:26:42 UTC Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 04:26:42 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	40.288°N, 142.727°E
Depth	36.3 km (22.6 miles)
Region	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances	108 km (67 miles) ESE of Hachinohe, Honshu, Japan 149 km (92 miles) ENE of Morioka, Honshu, Japan 177 km (109 miles) ESE of Aomori, Honshu, Japan 574 km (356 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 15.3 km (9.5 miles); depth +/- 4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Parameters	NST=447, Nph=447, Dmin=195.9 km, Rmss=0.82 sec, Gp= 32°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source	Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usc0005vv7

• Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

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• Preliminary Earthquake Report
• U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
  World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

[Editor's Note: Added Map below]
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9/10/2011 East Coast Earthquake: Twice What Nuclear Plant Designed to Withstand

Source: USA Today via ABC News
Date: 9/10/2011
by: Wendy Koch

The North Anna Power Station operated by Dominion Energy remains offline after losing offsite power in the wake of a 5.8 earthquake, Aug. 24, 2011, near Mineral, Va. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake last month in Virginia caused about twice as much ground shaking as a nearby nuclear power plant was designed to withstand, according to a preliminary federal analysis.

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9/1/2011 4.2 earthquake rumbles across Los Angeles

Source: AP and CBS
Date: September 1, 2011 5:20 PM

(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - A magnitude-4.2 earthquake and aftershocks rattled nerves across the Los Angeles region Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
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Editor's Note: The nearest nuclear power plant I could find was the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station which is 60 miles SE of Los Angeles.

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9/2/2011 Earthquake risk to nuclear reactors greater than thought

Source: AP via pal-item.com
Date: 9/2/2011
by: Dina Cappiello and Jeff Donn

WASHINGTON (AP) — The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data. The nation’s nuclear regulator believes a quarter of America’s reactors may need modifications to make them safer.
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