Category: Earthquake, active fault

Accident / Earthquake, active fault

September 9, 2005

Onagawa Reactors Trip Following Miyagi Earthquake　Nuke Info Tokyo No. 108

On August 16th all three reactors tripped automatically at Tohoku Electric Power Company’s Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant in response to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture. The direct reason...

Earthquake, active fault / Kashiwazaki-Kariwa

November 8, 2004

Earthquake Zone Earthquakes and Nuclear Safety in Japan Nuke Info Tokyo No. 103

Tombstones toppled by the earthquake. Tombstones have long been used as an idicator of the strength of earthquakes. They are still used to gauge the strength of earthquakes that occurred before seismic...