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Cooper just said that a press conference has confirmed that it's too dangerous for workers to remain in the plant. Not good.
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Anderson Cooper just reported that the 50 workers have suspended operations. He can't confirm if that's old news and the original 50 that evacuated, or if it's the 50 that returned and have again evacuated.
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Anderson Cooper just said this is officially the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. I can't honestly think of any nuclear disasters other than Chernobyl or 3 mile.
He also just said that there are workers in the plant.
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Don't know how accurate this is, but I'll post it anyway:
http://www.realnewsreporter.com/?p=843
Hurray for fear mongering!
Quoting article so peeps can read it here.
EARTHQUAKE WARNING FROM RUSSIAN INSTITUTE of PHYSICS of the EARTHPosted by Real News Reporter on March 12th, 2011
A new report released today in the Kremlin prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Institute of Physics of the Earth, in Moscow, is warning that the America’s are in danger of suffering a mega-quake of catastrophic proportions during the next fortnight (14 days) with a specific emphasis being placed on the United States, Mexico, Central America and South American west coast regions along with the New Madrid Fault Zone region.
This report further warns that catastrophic earthquakes in Asia and the sub-continent are, also, “more than likely to occur” with the 7.3 magnitude quake in Japan today being “one of at least 4 of this intensity” to occur during this same time period.
Raising the concerns of a mega-quake occurring, this report says, are the increasing subtle electromagnetic signals that are being detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere over many regions of the World, with the most intense being over the US Western coastal and Midwest regions.
Important to note are that Russian and British scientists are at the forefront of predicting earthquakes based on these subtle electromagnetic signals and have joined in an effort to put satellites in space to detect more of them.
More ominously in this report are Russian scientists confirming the independent analysis of New Zealand mathematician and long-range weather forecaster, Ken Ring, who predicted the deadly Christchurch quake and this week issued another warning of a quake to hit on or about March 20th.
Ring explains his methodology for predicting earthquakes as follows:
“The planets very much affect the earth, indirectly, by having an effect on the Sun. Some planets are very large. If the Sun was a basketball the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn would be the size of grapefruits, and the Earth would be, on that scale, the size of a peppercorn.
Jupiter and Saturn cause extra tides on the Sun when they get on either side of the Sun (as with Moon – Earth-Sun when the moon is full) and when these gas giants get on the same side as the Sun, (as with Earth -Moon – Sun when the moon is new). These greater solar tides become sunspot activity and solar flares and can be understood as akin to the increase in tides caused by the Moon when it too gets alongside Earth or opposite Earth.
At the moment we have Jupiter and Saturn on either side of the Sun and creating a tug of war with Earth in the middle. That started last September and will continue until about May. In September the Earth was right in line with Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun too.
That’s why there were several 7+ earthquakes around, it wasn’t just us. For instance there was one in Pakistan on the same day as Christchurch. This Jupiter/Saturn alignment continues until about May, and the Earth comes back into line as well in March. It is why there may be an extreme event, perhaps a large earthquake, around 20 March, which is when the Moon may be again in a trigger position.”
According to this report, however, where Ring is correct in assessing blame for our Earth’s earthquakes on the Sun and Planets, his substituting of Perigean Spring Tides (also known as King Tides) for the low pressure systems associated with them may be incorrect.
The mention in this report of massive low pressure systems being associated with catastrophic earthquakes is especially dire to the United States Midwestern region, which even today is continuing to be pounded by horrific rainfall amounts, and most especially impacting the New Madrid Fault Zone State of Arkansas which has suffered over 800 earthquakes in the past 6 months alone.
Equally in danger, this report continues, is the South American Nation of Bolivia which has, likewise, suffered catastrophic low pressure system storms that in the past week have killed over 52 people.
Most ominous in this report, though, is its warning that the fault-riddled State of California may be about to suffer its most catastrophic earthquake in decades as new reports for this region show the mass death of millions of fish [photo bottom left] is now occurring, and just like the mass stranding of whales on New Zealand beaches days prior to the February 22nd destruction of Christchurch.
Making the situation for our Planet even grimmer are the reports that our Sun is continuing to spew forth massive solar flares, the latest warned to hit our Earth today or tomorrow thus prompting the Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) to issue a Solar Flare warning for the Southern Hemisphere.
Interesting to note in all of these events is the United States Army announcing this week that it is holding a rare training event involving the US Military, the CIA, Canadian officers, US Treasury and State departments, the US Agency for International Development, the Defense Threat Readiness Agency and the International Red Cross between March 21-25 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and which should the worst happen they will certainly be prepared for it.
As this report concludes, that as of yet, “no firmly reliable” method for predicting earthquakes has been scientifically recognized, it is well worth noting the too many to be ignored anomalous coincidences leading up to catastrophic mega-quakes are breaking out all over the World and should only be ignored at ones peril.
In other words, it is always best to be prepared should disaster strike, wherever the warning comes from.
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BBC's take:
- Staff working to douse reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have had to be withdrawn because of a spike in radiation levels.
- Japanese authorities are investigating the source of white smoke seen billowing from reactor 3 at the plant, which was damaged in Friday's earthquake and tsunami
- A new fire that broke out inside reactor 4 on Wednesday morning at the plant is apparently out, but radiation levels remain too high for workers to approach the four reactors
CNN reported earlier that the fire just burned out and wasn't put out. Hopefully they are correct that it's out, and not just dormant. If it starts burning again there will be no one to extinguish it.
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The last remaining employees at the plant have fled - like rats from a sinking ship.
I wonder how authorities will spin this one.
I don't seem them leaving if it's safe. Pretty sure if they secured the area they would hang out just to make sure nothing comes up. This can't be good.
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Two workers at the Fukushima plant are missing and have been since Friday:
2120: Reuters has reported that two workers are missing at the Fukushima plant - they have not been named but Japan's nuclear safety agency said they had been in the turbine area of reactor four.2154: More on those two workers reported to be missing from Fukushima. A national nuclear safety agency spokesman, Masami Nishimura, said they went missing on Friday, the day the quake and tsunami struck, not after Tuesday's explosion, AFP reports.Pretty sure if I worked in that plant I'd go missing too.
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BBC Live is now reporting:
2037: The US-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has said it agrees with the assessment of France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) that the incident at Fukushima should be classified as level 6 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), one below Chernobyl. Following a number of explosions and a fire at the plant which released dangerous levels of radiation, ISIS said the situation had "worsened considerably" and was now closer to a level 6 event. "It may unfortunately reach a level 7," it added.
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so if something like this were to happen to vancouver..where do u guys think the 'safe zone' begins on the south side of the burrard inlet/ubc/SW marine drive area..
dunbar/16th area is like the most elevated area i can think of other than the mountains O_O
Like ill tell you my secret place
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u getting this from cnn live?
Live from CNN on TV, yeah.
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Every time something big happnes, they play it down.. Just like the Russians did...
You could be right, they may be doing this to avoid mass panic. Let's hope they aren't.
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2000 bodies just found in Miyagi Prececture.
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This "smoke" they are talking about at the power plant, any chance it might just be evaporating water from them trying to cool it ?
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I would be too if I was where he is
He keeps asking if he should be evacuating.
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Anderson Cooper is freaking out.
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NHK reporting white smoke from power plant.
Explosion occurred at reactor #3.
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CNN reporting tsunami waves 6 feet high are hitting Maui right now. I thought that was normal for Maui though.
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I decided to finally pin this. Man, are times rough in Japan right now. It sounds like some serious stuff is still going down.
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What's going on? Obviously as I turn to it it's on commercial haha
Anderson Cooper was talking to another reporter, think he said his name is Sanjay. All of a sudden you hear sirens and voices. Sanjay said those are vehicles driving through the streets warning people of a tsunami and to get the heck out of the area, then Sanjay's mic cut out and there was no more communication with him.
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Strongly suggest turning on CNN right now. 215 in Vancouver area on shaw.
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CNN right now reporting live that another tsunami is coming. Not exactly sure where. There's footage right now of a tsunami destroying a city. It looks like is raining or snowing, but that's actually ash from the volcano.
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Well i know it caused the tsunami and nuclear problems obviously, i didnt mean to write those lol, i meant just the volcano
Yes and no. It's all the seismic activity happening that caused both, but the earthquake itself didn't directly cause the volcano.
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Does it make sense to say that the earthquake was the main cause of everything that followed (Tsunami, Nuclear problems, volcano)??
Not sure if serious.
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Japan earthquake magnitude now raised to 9.0.
Japan's Meteorological Agency says the magnitude of Friday's earthquake that hit the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan was 9.0 instead of 8.8 as earlier announced.The agency made the correction on Sunday morning after analyzing seismic waves and other data. The magnitude is equivalent to that of the 2004 earthquake off Sumatra, Indonesia, which triggered massive tsunamis in the Indian Ocean.The agency says the focal zone of Friday's quake was about 500-kilometers long and 200-kilometers wide. Destructive movement along the fault continued for more than 5 minutes.The Meteorological Agency says only 4 other quakes in the world have recorded magnitudes of 9 or over.The largest was the magnitude 9.5 quake that hit the Chilean coast in 1960, killing more than 1,600. The quake also triggered tsunamis in Japan, leaving 142 people dead.The 2004 quake off Sumatra registered a magnitude of 9.1. Subsequent giant tsunamis killed more than 200,000 people.http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_21.html
Your article says it was an 8.8, I thought it was an 8.9 ? Not that it's a HUGE difference, only about 1.6 times stronger, but just wondering. Also, it really doesn't matter anymore that it's neither.
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OMG Earthquake?
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I don't know which one, just reporting what I am watching on TV. Which reminds me, wherever Anderson is right now is snowing.