Fresh earthquake fears in Japan as scientists warn over plate stress levels

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Fresh earthquake fears in Japan as scientists warn over plate stress levels
Julian Ryall

HONG KONG: -- As Japan prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, scientists have warned that stress levels in the tectonic plates that triggered the magnitude-9 tremor are once again building to worrying levels.

Writing in the British scientific journal Nature Geoscience, the international team of researchers has concluded that while the stresses that built up in the plates were released in the March 2011 quake – which triggered a tsunami and the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant – they have since recovered to levels measured before the tremor.

Predicting earthquakes remains a difficult science, admitted Bogdan Enescu, an associate professor at the University of Tsukuba and one of the authors of the report, which concludes that “large earthquakes may not have a characteristic location, size or recurrence interval, and might therefore occur more randomly distributed in time”.

While the recovery to stress levels beneath a tectonic plate is generally anticipated to take around 10 years after a major tremor, that recovery took a mere three years off the north-east coast of Japan, he said.

Full story: http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1704334/fresh-earthquake-fears-japan-scientists-warn-plate-stress-levels

-- South China Morning Post 2015-02-06

[shirtless]

This is quite a bad situation as Fukushima is still spewing radiation into the atmosphere and ocean , with no way to fix this problem one more major quake may just trigger mankinds demise sooner rather than latter, dont expect any real news from your governments or mainstream media as this would trigger panic.

[wabothai]

Scary !!!!!!!!!!

[Sandman77]

More bad that japanese gov want to reactivate most of the atom reactors this year.

[Scott]

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[midas]

This is quite a bad situation as Fukushima is still spewing radiation into the atmosphere and ocean , with no way to fix this problem one more major quake may just trigger mankinds demise sooner rather than latter, dont expect any real news from your governments or mainstream media as this would trigger panic.

Well of course it's difficult for any media to accurately report on the situation now since Japan introduced the law in 2013 that regards any unfavourable coverage of the Fukushima situation as infringing 'special state secrets' and journalists who seek to obtain them can face prison.

In the meantime I just hope all the Olympic athletes one way or another become aware of the situation between now and the Japan games.No good winning an Olympic gold medal if you have to pay the price of possibly dying prematurely

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[elgordo38]

This is quite a bad situation as Fukushima is still spewing radiation into the atmosphere and ocean , with no way to fix this problem one more major quake may just trigger mankinds demise sooner rather than latter, dont expect any real news from your governments or mainstream media as this would trigger panic.

Aliens are coming, Aliens are coming

[Asiantravel]

This is quite a bad situation as Fukushima is still spewing radiation into the atmosphere and ocean , with no way to fix this problem one more major quake may just trigger mankinds demise sooner rather than latter, dont expect any real news from your governments or mainstream media as this would trigger panic.

Aliens are coming, Aliens are coming

What's your point please?

[JetsetBkk]

recovery to stress levels beneath a tectonic plate is generally anticipated to take around 10 years after a major tremor

Blimey! I thought it took centuries, not a decade.

I wonder where the figure of 10 years came from?