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Art_from_Ark

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6. The earthquake's epicenter was about 15 miles from my house
Mon Nov 11, 2013, 06:30 AM
Nov 2013

It was a very localized earthquake that lasted for maybe 20 seconds. The highest intensity was recorded at the city next to mine-- 5- on the Japanese scale, meaning that a few books might have fallen off of shelves. The intensity in my city was 4, meaning that some figurines might have gotten knocked off of shelves, but everything at my house was fine. The highest intensity area (shown in orange on the map in the link) was more than 100 miles from the Fukushima reactors, where the intensity was much less, recorded as 2, meaning that a lot of people might not have even noticed it. So no, this particular earthquake was hardly strong enough to cause abnormalities at Fukushima Daiichi.

http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/20131110073801.html?c=3

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