Nissan Brexit Bonus – MORE Electric Car Battery Production in Sunderland

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:22:00 +0100carsuk (en)

Nissan has revealed that as a result of the Brexit deal production of 62kWh batteries for the Nissan LEAF will be undertaken in Sunderland. There’s been lots of noise for a long time about the effects of Brexit on car production in the UK, and even though a deal has been done there still seems […]....

Japanese Court Exempts Government from Fukushima Incident Responsibility

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:25:00 +0100laht (en)

TOKYO – A Japan ese court ruled on Thursday that the Japanese Government cannot be held liable for the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in 2011, reversing a lower court decision. The resolution issued on Thursday by the Tokyo Superior Court invalidates the sentence issued in September by another Sendai....

No Tsunami risk after 7.0 magnitude quake at sea near Philippines - PTWC

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:34:00 +0100zawya-palestine (en)

Police officers take part in a search operation for the remains of people who went missing after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, Japan , March 11, 2020. Image for illustrative purposes. REUTERS/Athit Prawongmetha A tsunami was not expected after an earthquake measured at magnitude 7.

Five-year blood pressure trajectories of survivors of the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake in Iwate

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 04:58:00 +0100nature-hr (en)

Whether tsunami survivors who suffered substantial damage experienced increases in blood pressure (BP) immediately after the disaster and in the medium to long term is unclear. We divided tsunami survivors into groups, those who relocated (substantial damage) and those who did not (little damage)....

Scientists Once Proposed An Atomic Priesthood To Deliberately Spread Rituals And Legends

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:27:00 +0100iflscience (en)

In the early 1980s, the Human Interference Task Force attempted to come up with solutions for how to convey the danger of nuclear waste to people thousands

Universe, Vol. 7, Pages 20: Correlations between Earthquake Properties and Characteristics of Possible ULF Geomagnetic Precursor over Multiple Earthquakes

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 07:18:00 +0100mdpi (en)

In this study, we improved and adapted existing signal processing methods on vast geomagnetic field data to investigate the correlations between various earthquake properties and characteristics of possible geomagnetic precursors. The data from 10 magnetometer stations were utilized to detect....

Heavy snowfall causes massive pileup of 130 vehicles in northeastern Japan

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:33:00 +0100watchers (en)

At least one person died while 10 others sustained injuries as heavy snowfall blanketed wide areas of northeastern Japan , resulting in a multiple-vehicular accident on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. More than 130 vehicles and some 200 people were involved in the pileup...... Read more »

Universe, Vol. 7, Pages 20: Correlations between Earthquake Properties and Characteristics of Possible ULF Geomagnetic Precursor over Multiple Earthquakes

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:21:00 +0100mdpi (en)

In this study, we improved and adapted existing signal processing methods on vast geomagnetic field data to investigate the correlations between various earthquake properties and characteristics of possible geomagnetic precursors. The data from 10 magnetometer stations were utilized to detect....

Conjugate faulting and structural complexity on the young fault system associated with the 2000 Tottori earthquake

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:51:00 +0100nature-Earth-and-Environmental-Sciences (en)

Young faults display unique complexity associated with their evolution, but how this relates to earthquake occurrence is unclear. Unravelling the fine-scale complexity in these systems could lead to a greater understanding of ongoing strain localization in young fault zones.

Light 4.1 quake hits near Ōfunato, Ōfunato-shi, Iwate, Japan

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 22:11:00 +0100volcanodiscovery (en)

4.1 quake 19 Jan 5:47 am (GMT +9) Just 13 minutes ago, a 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck near Ōfunato, Ōfunato-shi, Iwate, Japan . The tremor was recorded early morning on Tuesday 19 January 2021 at 5:47 am local time, at a moderately shallow depth of 49.2 km below the surface.

Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes near Port-Olry, Sanma Province, Vanuatu

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:02:00 +0100volcanodiscovery (en)

5.1 quake 18 Jan 6:17 pm (GMT +11) The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.1 quake in Vanuatu near Port-Olry, Sanma Province, only 16 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early evening on Monday 18 January 2021 at 6:17 pm local time at an intermediate to considerable depth of 158 km.

Magnitude 4.2 earthquake strikes near Hisai-motomachi, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0100volcanodiscovery (en)

4.2 quake 18 Jan 3:14 pm (GMT +9) A magnitude 4.2 earthquake near Hisai-motomachi, Tsu, Mie, Japan , was reported only 21 minutes ago by NIED, considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activity in this part of the world. The earthquake occurred at a great depth of 378.

VOX POPULI: 26 years later, memories of the Kobe earthquake still haunt me January 18, 2021 Remembering that day still arouses a painful feeling of shame mixed

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 06:25:00 +0100ajw (en)

Remembering that day still arouses a painful feeling of shame mixed with embarrassment in me. On Ja

Fukushima mon amour

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:00:00 +0100elnortedecastilla (es)

Una tragedia como la que ocurrió en Fukushima, Japón, el 11 de marzo de 2011, provoca comentarios del tipo 'el mundo se paralizó'. Pero en realidad, ni con aquel devastador terremoto y su posterior tsunami, que dejaron más de 20.000 fallecidos, ni con cualquier otra gran desgracia, el planeta deja....