Strong quakes successively hit North East Japan / Tepco publishing no reports on Fukushima plant status

On 2/17/2015, multiple major quakes hit North East Japan.

The first one occurred at 8:06 JST, magnitude was 6.9. Epicenter was “Sanriku offshore”, depth was 10km. Japan meteorological agency announced Tsunami warning to Iwate offshore however no remarkable damage was reported.

After 3 major aftershocks from M4.6 to M4.8, M5.7 hit Iwate offshore at 13:46 JST. The maximum seismic intensity was 5+.

By this moment, 3 more aftershocks followed the quake near the epicenter.

 

It has been over 12 hours since the first one of M6.9, but Fukushima plant status has not been reported by Tepco yet.

 

 

 

2 Strong quakes successively hit North East Japan : Tepco publishing no reports on Fukushima plant status

 

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/quake_local_index.html

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20150217081759395-170806.html

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20150217135131395-171346.html

http://www.tepco.co.jp/index-j.html

 

 

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Français :

De forts séismes ébranlent le nord-est du Japon / Tepco ne publie rien sur l’état de la centrale de Fukushima

 

Le 17 février 2015, de multiples séismes majeurs ont frappé le Nord-Est du Japon.

Le premier a eu lieu à 08:06 JST, sa magnitude était de 6,9. Son épicentre était “au large de Sanriku”, à 10 km de profondeur. La Japan meteorological agency a émis une alerte au tsunami pour les côtes d’Iwate néanmoins aucun dégât notable n’a été rapporté.
Après 3 répliques majeures entre M4,6 et M4,8, un M5,7 a frappé au large d’Iwate à 13:46 JST. L’intensité sismique maximale a été de 5+.
Pour l’instant, 3 répliques de plus ont suivi ce séisme près de son épicentre.

On est à plus de 12 heures du premier de M6,9 mais la situation dans la centrale de Fukushima n’a pas encore été diffusée par Tepco.

2 Strong quakes successively hit North East Japan : Tepco publishing no reports on Fukushima plant status

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/quake_local_index.html
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20150217081759395-170806.html
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20150217135131395-171346.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/index-j.html

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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