Reuters is reporting that Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, has suspended an agreement that was meant to delay the closing of Germany’s older nuclear plants.
Merkel points to the nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan as the reason. She has decided that Germany’s old nuclear plants need to be shut down, by their originally planned closure dates. […] Continue Reading…
NHK is presenting an official ‘explainer’ of why the nuclear safety and backup systems failed. I’ll try to put it simply.
1: Earthquake triggered automatic shut down procedures, which involves raising/exposing fuel rods. This still requires cooling of the rods.
2: Cooling of raised rods failed because main power supply cut. Back up generators came on, […] Continue Reading…
200 plus aftershock/quakes greater than magnitude 5 have hit all over Japan (if I heard right, this was in a 24 hour period). These are not just in the area of the main quake, but all over Japan, another sign of a major geological event.
At least half a million people are in emergency shelters. […] Continue Reading…
I am looking into seismic events around the Pacific Ring of Fire. I was thinking of doing a review of the past 12 months, however, it has become clear by going back just to January of 2011, that the Ring of Fire is going non-stop with seismic events, so it might be a daunting […] Continue Reading…
WeatherSpace.com is reporting that two volcanoes, on the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula north of Japan, and one other volcano in Indonesia, erupted almost at the same time.
They erupted on March 12. They are considered to be connected to the big quake event in Japan. They are part of the Ring of Fire.
The Shinmoedake volcano on the southern island of Kyushu, has erupted, again. The volcano started erupting back in January. This was part of a series of volcanic events that lead some people to predict a major geologic event for Japan.
The volcano had settled down for the past two weeks, but now, after the big […] Continue Reading…
Bank of Japan officials are issuing millions in cash, into the Japanese economy. This is due to the earthquake and tsunami destroying a major part of Japan’s infrastructure.
Major Japanese manufacturers have closed, mainly because employees and supplies can not get to the factories. Farm lands have been destroyed by the tsunami.
Japan must focus on […] Continue Reading…
The weather forecast, for northern Honshu, is for a week of rain and snow. This will exacerbate landslide conditions. Already there have been 66 confirmed landslides.
An NHK reporter discovered, in an abandoned fishing town of Kesennuma, that fires that destroyed the city have spread to the country side.
No firefighting capabilities due to the destruction. Wild fires likely to spread.
The reporter talked to the few survivors in the area and they said the fire was spread by a fishing boat, […] Continue Reading…
NHK is reporting that Meterological officials are predicting new earthquakes up to magnitude 7 are expected by Thursday, March 17. This would be followed by tsunami.
This is more evidence that a major geological upheaval is taking place under Japan’s main state of Honshu.