[meteorite-list] OT: New quake in Japan (FYI)

From: David R. Vann <drvann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:33:08 -0400
Message-ID: <58AE9E1C0D9F4740AA61C4BE204675C1_at_sas.upenn.edu>

Colleagues:

    No tsunami have appeared. All tsunami warnings have been cancelled.

    USGS has revised their magnitude estimate downward and now has a moment
magnitude: 7.1.

    Japan Met.Agency now agrees with USGS on depth: 40 km. It sounds like they
are calling it a backthrust earthquake.

    Shinkansen that were running after the March 11 EQ are running again.
Sendai train station is damaged and trains have been stopped.

    There are widespread power outages, local fires, and some injured and
trapped people.

    Two of the three external power lines running to Onagawa nuclear power
station, on the north Tohoku coast, are down. Onagawa is on E side of the
Oshika peninsula (the big peninsula), closer to the epicenter of the aftershock
than Fukushima Daiichi or Daini stations. Onagawa has three boiling-water
reactors like those at Fukushima Daiichi, but much newer (1984, 1995, 2002).
All were in safe, cold shutdown after the great EQ, but all (of course) need
continuing water flow to keep cores and spent-fuel pools cool.

David R. Vann, Ph.D.
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
THE UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA
240 S. 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316
drvann at sas.upenn.edu
office: 215-898-4906
FAX: 215-898-0964


| -----Original Message-----
| From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
| [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On
| Behalf Of karmaka
| Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:22 PM
| To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
| Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: New quake in Japan
|
|
| Hello Ingo, Dirk and all
|
| I keep my fingers crossed that there is no further damage
| and hopefully no further casulties. We feel for our Japanese
| friends. The Tsunami warning has meanwhile been cancelled.
| That is good news.
|
| Martin
|
|
| -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
| Von: "Ingo Herkstroeter" <metopaster at gmx.de>
| Gesendet: 07.04.2011 17:23:41
| An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
| Betreff: [meteorite-list] OT: New quake in Japan
|
| >Hi Folks!
| >
| >I just heard, that there was a new earth quake in Japan. It
| had 7.4 on
| >the Richter scale and there was given an tsunami warning, also. The
| >quake was in the same region, the last one was and caused
| the trouble
| >with the nuclear power station near Fukushima.
| >
| >
| >Let's hope the best for all people there.
| >
| >Ingo
| >
| >
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Received on Thu 07 Apr 2011 12:33:08 PM PDT