KAT – 334G
M6.0 quake strikes 250km E of Namie, Fukushima, Japan
Earthquake Details:
Magnitude: 6.0 mww [USGS]
Location: 37.485°N, 143.954°E
Depth: 10.0 km
Time: 2017-10-06
07:59:33.110 (UTC)
Posted by feww on October 6, 2017
KAT – 334G
Earthquake Details:
Magnitude: 6.0 mww [USGS]
Location: 37.485°N, 143.954°E
Depth: 10.0 km
Time: 2017-10-06
07:59:33.110 (UTC)
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Posted by feww on September 14, 2017
KMPH-483W
[NOTE: The quake occurred within 6 hours of the latest atrocity committed by Japan. –Moderator]
An earthquake measuring 4.6 magnitude struck about 11km NW of Imperial Palace in Tokyo at a depth of 48.8 km, shaking 10 prefectures in eastern Japan at 11:15am local time, according to Japan monitoring agency.
Earthquake details:
Magnitude: 4.6 mwr
Location: 35.772°N, 139.615°E [2km SSW of Wako, Japan]
Depth: 48.8 km
Time: 2017-09-14 00:27:23 (UTC)
[USGS]
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Posted by feww on November 20, 2015
Centered at 25.9ºN, 143.4ºE, about 90km SSE of Chichi-shima, the quake occurred at a depth of 10km , according to Japan’s weather agency.
Approximate Distances
Nishinoshima Volcano (27.247°N, 140.874°E)
The quake struck near Nishinoshima volcano, which resumed eruption on Tuesday. Intermittent eruptions have helped the volcanic island to grow by more than 12-folds in the past two years.
Located about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, Nishinoshima Island currently measures about 2,000 meters across.
In 2013, an undersea eruption formed a new island near Nishinoshima, and continuing lava flows eventually linked the two islands several months ago.
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Posted by feww on August 24, 2015
A massive fire broke out at a steel plant in the industrial city of Kawasaki, near Haneda airport, about 25km from central Tokyo.
The fire started at a cooling tower in the plant, which is owned by Nippon Steel, a company official told AFP.
The blaze was the second large fire to break out in Japan on Monday, after a series of explosions rocked a US military base in Sagamihara, said a report.
Sagamihara [pop: 850,000,] located 40km southwest of Tokyo, is the third most populous city in Kanagawa prefecture.
Eyewitnesses described the blasts as a series of continuous explosions that lasted up to 15 minutes.
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Posted by feww on August 6, 2015
The largest of the three quakes, measuring 5.2Mw, scored 4 on the local seismic intensity scale of 7 close to the Fukushima Daiichi NPP.
M 5.2 earthquake strikes SSW of Fukushima, Japan
Location: 36.497°N, 140.595°E
Depth: 44.3 km
Time: 2015-08-06 09:22:28 UTC
Nearby Cities:
4km (2mi) NE of Funaishikawa, Japan
12km (7mi) SSW of Hitachi, Japan
12km (7mi) NNE of Hitachi-Naka, Japan
13km (8mi) NNE of Katsuta, Japan
121km (75mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan
M 5.0 earthquake strikes east of Fukushima, Japan
Location: 37.521°N 141.503°E
Depth: 39.0 km
Time: 2015-08-05 11:56:09 UTC
Nearby Cities:
44km (27mi) E of Namie, Japan
75km (47mi) NE of Iwaki, Japan
78km (48mi) SE of Marumori, Japan
80km (50mi) SE of Watari, Japan
259km (161mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan
M 5.0 earthquake strikes offshore east of Fukushima, Japan
Location: 37.780°N 141.539°E
Depth: 50.7 km
Time: 2015-08-03 05:30:12 UTC
Nearby Cities:
57km (35mi) NE of Namie, Japan
66km (41mi) ESE of Watari, Japan
69km (43mi) ESE of Iwanuma, Japan
69km (43mi) ESE of Kakuda, Japan
284km (176mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan
[Source: USGS/EHP]
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Posted by feww on June 30, 2015
A “minor volcanic eruption” has occurred at Mt Hakone near Tokyo starting Monday night through Tuesday, according to officials.
Fresh layers of volcanic ash were discovered Tuesday morning around a newly-formed vent in the Owakudani valley, which forms part of the Mount Hakone range (Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park) located in Kanagawa prefecture.
Volcanic tremors have been shaking the Hakone mountain since Monday morning, officials said, warning nearby residents that the volcano could eject sizable rocks to a radius of about one kilometer and smaller rocks even further.
The warning level on the Hakone was raised to level 3 [“Do not approach the volcano,”] at 12:30 JST today [June 30, 2015.]
The volcano has been ejecting steam over the past few months.
Mt Hakone is located about 80 km SW of central Tokyo. More than 45 million people live within a 100-km radius of the volcano according to FIRE-EARTH Population Models.
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Posted by feww on June 24, 2015
Centered at 27.7N, 140.3E the quake occurred at a depth of about 480km at 21:19 JST (UTC + 9:00 hours) on Tuesday, according to Japan weather agency.
The epicenter was located about 900km south of Tokyo, Japan.
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Posted by feww on May 25, 2015
Centered at 36.1N, 139.6E the quake struck at a depth of about 50km, the local weather agency reported.
EQ Details [JMA]
The quake was felt throughout Japan’s main island of Honshu.
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Posted by feww on July 5, 2014
Centered at 39.675°N 142.034°E the quake struck off Iwate Pref., near east coast of Honshu, Japan, according to USGS/EHP.
The seismicity registered up to 5 (lower) on the 7-level local scale.
Earthquake Details
Magnitude: 5.9 [GEOFON Program]
Event Time: 2014-07-04 22:42:04 UTC
Location: 39.675°N 142.034°E depth=44.9km (27.9mi)
Nearby Cities:
FIRE-EARTH Science Team has suspended its research on Japan seismicity, California ditto.
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Posted by feww on February 17, 2014
Scores of evacuation centers were opened in two dozen cities and towns in central Japan sheltering more than 1,600 people who were stranded in cars and trains, as well as thousands of residents who feared their homes, damaged in the snowstorm, could collapse.
Some 1,000 vehicles have been stuck in snow on freeways NW of Tokyo since early Saturday.
Supermarket shelves were left bare, as delivery trucks, also stuck in the snow, failed to arrive, according to reports.
The latest snowstorm has killed at least 18 people and left up to 2,000 others injured.
More snow is forecast along Japan’s Pacific Coast starting Tuesday.
UPDATE
Snow forces Toyota, Honda, Suzuki … to suspend operations at multiple plants
Toyota Motor Corp suspended operations at four plants in Aichi prefecture, central Japan because heavy snow has disrupted its parts delivery chain, according to reports.
Honda Motor also stopped production at its plants in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo for similar reasons.
Suzuki Motor announced on Monday it too had halted production at 3 plants in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Many other major manufacturers have followed suit including Seiko Epson and the Hitachi group, said reports.
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Posted by feww on February 16, 2014
More heavy snow is forecast along the Pacific Coast of Tohoku through Sunday, as officials warn of strong winds and avalanches.
Tokyo and surrounding areas were pounded by record snowfall Friday through Saturday morning. The extreme event forced cancellations of up to a thousand flights, suspensions of many train services and severe disruptions to road traffic.
Hundreds of thousands of people were stranded at train stations and airports throughout the country, as snowstorm knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes in 7 prefectures.
Up to 30cm of snow left large sections of expressways in and around Tokyo impassable, reported NHK.
“On the Tomei Expressway linking Tokyo and Aichi Prefecture, vehicles have remained virtually stranded for more than 20 hours in Shizuoka Prefecture. The jam stretches for about 40 kilometers.”
The Shinkansen bullet train services were suspended on lines linking the capital with Nagano prefecture in central Japan, Niigata pref. on the Japan Sea Coast, and Yamagata pref. in the northeast, said the report.
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Posted by feww on February 8, 2014
A major snowstorm, said to be the worst to hit japan in two decades, has left at least 5 people dead and more than 500 others injured in snow-related incidents, according to reports.
Up to 22 cm (8.7 inches) of snow fell over Tokyo on Saturday, breaking the previous record of 20 cm set in 1994, according to reports citing the meteorological agency.
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued a severe storm warning for the capital Tokyo, and the suburb of Tama, advising people stay at home.
The agency forecast heavy snow for Saturday through Sunday morning, for the Greater Tokyo Area.
Heavy snow forced airport authorities to cancel up to 1,000 flights into, within or out of Japan late Friday through Saturday. Many train services were suspended and dozens of major roads closed, especially in the Kanagawa prefecture, a part of Greater Tokyo Area.
More than 3,200 snow-related accidents were reported across the country, many caused by vehicles skidding on icy roads, said NHK.
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Posted by feww on October 26, 2013
The revised details are as follows
At least 4 significant aftershocks have occurred, as of posting, the largest of which measured 5.5Mw.
Meantime, the authorities evacuated the crippled Fukushima Power Plant, after Tsunami Advisories were issued.
The plant operator said on Saturday there was no damage or change in radiation levels at the station following the quake, according to reports.
A 30cm tsunami reached Japan’s east coast, NHK reported.
The quake reportedly shook buildings far away as Tokyo, about 230 km south of Fukushima nuclear plant, and 475km WSW of the epicenter.
Earthquake Location Map
Source: USGS/EHP
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Posted by feww on October 23, 2013
WIPHA unleashed massive landslides on the volcanic Island, killing dozens of people (29 confirmed dead , 16 others missing presumed dead), destroying or damaging hundreds of homes and forcing thousands to evacuate last Wednesday.
FIRE-EARTH Models show FRANCISCO making landfall with probability of about 55 percent, as of 03:00UTC on October 23, 2013.
Typhoon FRANCISCO moves closer to southern Japan, watched by Super Typhoon LEKIMA. VISIBLE/INFRARED satellite image (FIRE-EARTH Enhancement) recorded at 01:30UTC on October 23, 2013. Original image sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
Typhoon FRANCISCO
Projected paths of Typhoon FRANCISCO and Super Typhoon LEKIMA as of 01:30UTC on October 23, 2013. Original images sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC. Enhanced by FIRE-EARTH
Nansei Sekiyu KK, a Japanese refiner owned by Petrobras, has shut down marine operations at its 100,000 barrels-per-day refinery in Okinawa, due to typhoon FRANCISCO, said a report.
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Posted by feww on October 16, 2013
The island of Izu Oshima, located south of Tokyo, received 122 millimeters of rain in a one-hour period Wednesday morning.
WIPHA was still a typhoon force Wednesday morning with sustained winds of about 126km/hr and gusts exceeding 180km/hr. It was located near 36.1°N, 141.6°E, moving NE at 65km/h at of 00:01UTC on October 16, 2013.
WIPHA failed to make landfall. The eye of the storm came to within 40km of land at its closest point near Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture. Probability of the typhoon making landfall was about 78 percent, based on the most favorable conditions, as projected by FIRE-EARTH on Tuesday.
Typhoon WIPHA. IR satellite image (NHC Enhancement) recorded at 23:32UTC on October 15, 2013. Source of original image: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC. Re-enhanced by FIRE-EARTH.
Typhoon WIPHA. Visible/Shortwave IR (FIRE-EARTH Enhancement) satellite image recorded at 23:32UTC on October 15, 2013. Source of original image: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
WIPHA forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights affecting up to 100,000 passengers. Dozens of bullet trains as well as other train services were also cancelled.
The typhoon affected oil refining marine operations in several prefectures located on coastal Honshu.
More details to follow…
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Posted by feww on October 15, 2013
Typhoon WIPHA
WIPHA is expected to weaken to a cat 1 storm force before landfall. (Probability of WIPHA making landfall is about 78 percent, as of posting—FIRE-EARTH projection.)
Typhoon WIPHA. Visible/Shortwave IR satellite image recorded at 23:32UTC on October 14, 2013. Source: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC. Enhanced by FIRE-EARTH.
Typhoon WIPHA. Water Vapor (FIRE-EARTH Enhancement) satellite image recorded at 00:32UTC on October 15, 2013. Source: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
Typhoon WIPHA. MTSAT-2 IR satellite image (FIRE-EARTH Enhancement) recorded at 02:00UTC on October 15, 2013. Source: Digital Typhoon
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Posted by feww on September 16, 2013
The cyclone is currently racing up in a northeasterly direction in the northeastern Japan, including the Tohoku region, having made landfall in Aichi prefecture on Monday morning.
The cyclone has already dumped in excess of 550 millimeters (20 inches) of rain in western and central Japan, with eastern and northern regions told to expect more than 80 mm per hour.
Tropical Cyclone MAN-YI. IR/WV Difference Image 2013-09-16 @ 07:32UTC. Source: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
Weather officials issued special warnings for Shiga, Kyoto and Fukui prefectures. The warning is reserved for events when there is a significant likelihood of a major natural disaster “of a magnitude observed only once every few decades,” said NHK.
The storm has killed at least one person, left five people missing and injured 671 others, reports said.
More than 360 homes have reportedly been damaged, many of them severely.
There are reports of widespread flooding and numerous mudslides in the affected regions, according to reports.
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Posted by feww on September 2, 2013
Powerful winds from a suspected tornado, “towering about 300m high,” ripped through Koshigaya city in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, damaging parts of the city and injuring several dozen people—many of them requiring hospitalization.
The winds knocked over concrete utility poles, uprooted hundreds of trees and overturned dozens of vehicles, report said.
The rare twister also hit the city of Noda in Chiba prefecture, destroying or damaging at least two dozen buildings.
Power was cut off to at least 33,000 customers, TEPCO said.
Still frames from a video report broadcast by NHK, Japan, compiled by FIRE-EARTH.
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Posted by feww on July 10, 2011
The quake, epicentered at 38.0ºN 143.5ºE , struck at a depth of 10 km at 09:57 JST (00:57 UTC) on Sunday Jul 10, 2011 off the coast Sanriku (Tohoku Region), Honshu, Japan, Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported.
The earthquake occurred about 250km east of Fukushima and 405km NE of Tokyo.
TSUNAMI STATUS: JMA has just issued the following Tsunami Bulletin:
Tsunami Warning/Advisory- Issued at 10:00 JST 10 Jul 2011
Tsunami Advisories have been issued for the following coastal regions of Japan: PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU
Tsunami Advisories have been issued for the following coastal regions of Japan:
Tsunami Forecast
Tsunami height is expected to be about 0.5 meters. Attention advised.
10-degree Map Centered at 40°N,145°E
EQ Location Map. Source: USGS
Source: USGS
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Posted by feww on October 18, 2008
(Kyodo News) An extremely high concentration of insecticide has been detected in frozen green beans imported from China, causing a woman in the Tokyo suburb of Hachioji and two other people in Chiba Prefecture to fall ill, reports said Wednesday.
The 56-year-old woman bought the beans Saturday and ate some of them Sunday, the Hachioji health department said. She started vomiting from the foul taste and smell and later experienced numbness in her mouth and more nausea.
The city of Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, said later Wednesday that two people experienced numbness of the tongue after eating beans from a package with the same lot number as the one in the Hachioji case. Police seized the remaining beans from the Kashiwa incident and were conducting checks.
The Hachioji health department said it detected 6,900 parts per million of the organophosphate insecticide dichlorvos in the beans, which is 34,500 times the government standard for imports.
A bag of green beans similar to the one that contained an extremely high level of insecticide dichlorvos. Photo: Tokyo Metropolitan Government handout.
At that concentration, which the ministry said is nearly equal to an undiluted solution of the insecticide, eating just 0.07 gram of the beans could be enough to trigger acute symptoms in a 60-kg person, it said.
The beans were manufactured by Yantai Beihai Foodstuff Co. in Shandong Province and imported by Tokyo-based Nichirei Foods Inc. for sale under the Ingen brand.
Prime Minister Taro Aso told reporters Wednesday that Tokyo will ask Beijing to work to improve the safety of exported food products from China. “(Food) products from China have caused problems in many places (for about a year),” he said.
This is not Yantai Beihai’s first tainted product. The ministry said it also detected unacceptable levels of the insecticide chlorpyrifos in another frozen bean product made by the company in 2002 that was exported to Japan. Although the concentration was 0.15 ppm, a level that shouldn’t cause immediate health problems in humans, the product had to be destroyed, it said.
A total of 265 tons of the frozen green beans have been imported in the past year. The government is warning consumers not to eat them and asking distributors to halt sales of the product until it can confirm what made the consumers sick. Quarantine offices nationwide have been ordered to halt import procedures for all food products from the Chinese company.
Frozen “gyoza” (dumplings) from China tainted with the agrochemical methamidophos sickened three families earlier this year in Chiba and Hyogo prefectures. It was later revealed that gyoza made by the same Chinese firm, containing the same pesticide, caused a food poisoning outbreak in China over the summer that Beijing authorities initially urged Japan not to report. Copyright Kyodo News
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has revealed that high concentrations of dichlorvos have been detected in foods imported from China on 14 different occasions since 2000. The contaminated products included matsutake mushrooms, nonglutinous rice, vegetables, corn, frozen strawberries, dumplings and and herbal medicines.
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Posted by feww on October 10, 2008
Sensors detected smoke at Tokaimura nuclear complex about 120km northeast of Tokyo on Friday. Smoke was detected at a solid waste facility where metal waste is incinerated. The operator claimed there was no release of radioactivity.
The fuel reprocessing center in Tokaimura was the scene of an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction in September 1999 which killed two employees and contaminated about 700 people with radiation.
“Japan’s nuclear power program has a history of accidents and lax oversight. In August, liquid containing uranium splashed out of a container at a nuclear fuel plant southwest of Tokyo, exposing two people to radiation.” AP reported.
Engineers at Tokaimura plant triggered the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Credit: New Scientist. Image may be subject to copyright.
Emergency response personnel at the site of the Tokaimura criticality accident, Japan, September 30, 1999. Source: The Encyclopedia of Earth.
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Posted by feww on September 11, 2008
Mikasa Foods Co., an Osaka-based wholesaler, which sold “industrial-use” rice unfit for human consumption to food manufacturers, will fire its entire workforce of about 100 employees because of fallout from the scandal, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reported.
“While the company will close operations at its rice cooking and processing factory in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, it will maintain its Kyushu factory in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, which resold government stocks of contaminated rice imported from China and other countries that it had purchased at low prices.” (source)
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