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Japan news...
Mar. 13th, 2011 11:08 am3/13
Bits and pieces of news today...
Last night, there was an expert on earthquakes and plates. He explained that the Pacific plate goes under the plate that Japan is on. He also showed a diagram showing that measurements in that area showed a lot of Japan -- the part that's been shaking and flooding -- has moved to the east. He says the average is 4 meters -- that's about 12 feet, and he thinks the Pacific plate slid down and under, while the Japanese plate rode up slightly and over. This apparently happened over a 400 kilometer line along the joint of the plates, which is part of the reason for the tsunami -- it wasn't really from a center, it was from a line.
This morning, there was an expert from Tokyo University with their simulation of the tsunami. Again, they are showing a line as the source, not a point.
They're repeating so many of the videos, again and again. One small port town, being flooded, with a ship floating into the wreckage. And children and adults standing on a road overlooking the town, children crying and screaming, adults comforting. Or a woman standing in a road, yelling at a pile of wreckage, calling for anyone to answer. Swaths of drowned land. Containers laying across a road. Burnt frames of new cars waiting to be load on a ship. Ships in various odd places. Cars... the whimsical van sitting on top of a roof, others smashed into buildings and so forth. The refugee centers, in schools, etc.
And, of course, in the middle of everything else, we've got the concerns over the reactors. Apparently 2 of 6. I gather they tried using seawater yesterday, but that didn't work? Anyway, there is concern about how to get the cooling going. Ah -- just had a guy explaining that the external water is way too low in those reactors, and they need to get more coolant in. Given the interspersing of other news (quake in the middle of his explanation), I'm not sure why they are having so much trouble. Sounded as if there is a pump broken somewhere? Surely they have alternates... heck, I'll bet the fire department has a mobile pump?
Somewhere last night there were pictures of a field measurement station, doing radiological scans of people. The people directing traffic and doing the scans were all in isolation outfits, with helmets. I'll bet that reassured the people they were measuring...
Incidentally, they keep saying 1000 or so MICRO sievert? Micro or milli? If it's really micro, that means 1000 is just 1 milli, right? So we're talking very small exposures?
Tokyo Disneyland has announced closing -- at the same time, I've seen some reports of people being trapped there, or maybe just staying overnight?
Quakes continue thlis morning, with tsunamis. If we've really had a base plate movement, I can sure understand continuing adjustments. In fact, as one guy pointed out, there have been some quakes on the far side of Japan, which would correspond to the other side of the plate, I think. Anyway, apparently adjustments.
BTW -- there've been continuing announcements that 150 rescue experts from the US are coming. The announcements started last night, and now are saying the experts should arrive today. I think people really appreciate that help, along with the carriers.
I think part of what I'm missing is an overall description. We've got quakes, the original, and continuing. We've got tsunami and flood. And we've got the reactors. Especially the floods are widespread and we keep getting mixed "now" and "during the tsunami" videos, often with little indication (to me) of where these places are located. It's confusing.
And Mitsuko and I realized last night that there are no ads! No hourly or half-hour splits, no ads, and a continuing flood of bits. It's so easy to start watching and suddenly realize that a couple of hours (or more) have passed. Odd how not having the normal ads and other breaks of television alter the pacing.
And how are things in your part of the world?
Bits and pieces of news today...
Last night, there was an expert on earthquakes and plates. He explained that the Pacific plate goes under the plate that Japan is on. He also showed a diagram showing that measurements in that area showed a lot of Japan -- the part that's been shaking and flooding -- has moved to the east. He says the average is 4 meters -- that's about 12 feet, and he thinks the Pacific plate slid down and under, while the Japanese plate rode up slightly and over. This apparently happened over a 400 kilometer line along the joint of the plates, which is part of the reason for the tsunami -- it wasn't really from a center, it was from a line.
This morning, there was an expert from Tokyo University with their simulation of the tsunami. Again, they are showing a line as the source, not a point.
They're repeating so many of the videos, again and again. One small port town, being flooded, with a ship floating into the wreckage. And children and adults standing on a road overlooking the town, children crying and screaming, adults comforting. Or a woman standing in a road, yelling at a pile of wreckage, calling for anyone to answer. Swaths of drowned land. Containers laying across a road. Burnt frames of new cars waiting to be load on a ship. Ships in various odd places. Cars... the whimsical van sitting on top of a roof, others smashed into buildings and so forth. The refugee centers, in schools, etc.
And, of course, in the middle of everything else, we've got the concerns over the reactors. Apparently 2 of 6. I gather they tried using seawater yesterday, but that didn't work? Anyway, there is concern about how to get the cooling going. Ah -- just had a guy explaining that the external water is way too low in those reactors, and they need to get more coolant in. Given the interspersing of other news (quake in the middle of his explanation), I'm not sure why they are having so much trouble. Sounded as if there is a pump broken somewhere? Surely they have alternates... heck, I'll bet the fire department has a mobile pump?
Somewhere last night there were pictures of a field measurement station, doing radiological scans of people. The people directing traffic and doing the scans were all in isolation outfits, with helmets. I'll bet that reassured the people they were measuring...
Incidentally, they keep saying 1000 or so MICRO sievert? Micro or milli? If it's really micro, that means 1000 is just 1 milli, right? So we're talking very small exposures?
Tokyo Disneyland has announced closing -- at the same time, I've seen some reports of people being trapped there, or maybe just staying overnight?
Quakes continue thlis morning, with tsunamis. If we've really had a base plate movement, I can sure understand continuing adjustments. In fact, as one guy pointed out, there have been some quakes on the far side of Japan, which would correspond to the other side of the plate, I think. Anyway, apparently adjustments.
BTW -- there've been continuing announcements that 150 rescue experts from the US are coming. The announcements started last night, and now are saying the experts should arrive today. I think people really appreciate that help, along with the carriers.
I think part of what I'm missing is an overall description. We've got quakes, the original, and continuing. We've got tsunami and flood. And we've got the reactors. Especially the floods are widespread and we keep getting mixed "now" and "during the tsunami" videos, often with little indication (to me) of where these places are located. It's confusing.
And Mitsuko and I realized last night that there are no ads! No hourly or half-hour splits, no ads, and a continuing flood of bits. It's so easy to start watching and suddenly realize that a couple of hours (or more) have passed. Odd how not having the normal ads and other breaks of television alter the pacing.
And how are things in your part of the world?
