Twitter Stream with updates from Japan

[annewandering]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromichi_Tanaka
This is the source apparently so sounds like its pretty much a solid one.

Here is the translation from google translate of the above japanese post.


Hello! Today morning, a meeting was held to consider the resumption by the people concerned.
Aggregate data is in earnest or how much power savings were now a group company.
The result, we have continued to discuss what further support the possibility that in consideration of the current power situation.
Please give us more time to determine the official measures. Thank you.

[Avina]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromichi_Tanaka
This is the source apparently so sounds like its pretty much a solid one.

Yeah he's big.

[annewandering]

Basically it sounds like they are trying to determine if the power is good enough to power up and asking for more time to decide.
I guess it is probably smart to figure they need to spend more time doing that than posting. ^^
With the tokyo power not knowing if they had enough power from what we have all read today it makes sense that SE would have a hard time knowing as well.
Tomorrow is another day and hopefully full of promise

[annewandering]

lol kinda sideways on topic but someone said they ought to be using cloud, which i am not quite sure what that is, and when i look at the bottom left side of the screen what do i see? tags for this thread none view tag cloud. sounds like SE is on the ball more than that poster thought anyway.

[Kimble]

The servers went down around 2am PST time so if anything, id expect them to go up around that same time when they do go up again.

[Anela]

The servers went down around 2am PST time so if anything, id expect them to go up around that same time when they do go up again.

Yup, thats about 10 min from now..... Not holding my breath....

[Kimble]

Uh... its only going to be 12 am PST in 10 minutes...

[Alhanelem]

Still would be something nice to state to all countries.

They will be saying it to all countries. The JP staff aren't english experts, and they have to pass this along to the english team to translate. I don't like what I think you're implying here.

[annewandering]

TEPCO load shedding (power outages rotation) as well as summer and winter must continue to be, announced on Tuesday. The earthquake tsunami East, large-scale power plants in Fukushima Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture, was found to be broken because the prospect of recovery than stand at the moment.

Revealed TEPCO official told The Asahi Shimbun. Be severely restricted the use of air conditioning in the home or office summer and winter load shedding is inevitable. Rolling blackouts in the summer, high temperatures - 2 pm are expected to be conducted primarily at three. Scale power failure, may increase depending on how the temperature rise. Also likely take a big hit in the industry long-term power supply can be restricted to the metropolitan area.

Fired power plants showed significant damage, the Hirono Thermal Power Station (Fukushima Prefecture), and a thermal power plant Hitachinaka (Tokai-mura, Ibaraki Prefecture). Facilities and power plants, fuel storage facilities destroyed by the tsunami, such as oil and coal. The two power plants in total output of 4.8 million kilowatts, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was also damaged by the tsunami (Futabachō Ookuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, 469.6 kilowatts million) equal to.

TEPCO's peak demand for power to the tube 28 million households, about 60 million kilowatts will require air conditioning in summer, around 50 million kilowatts in winter heating demand increases. TEPCO supplies power for it to stay current about 35 million kilowatts.

TEPCO, and to launch a small-scale thermal power plants are dormant plans to raise about 40 million kilowatts in April. In addition, companies such as wholesale electricity and gas companies (IPP) and promote the purchase of electricity, plans to increase to about 47 million kilowatts by summer. However, when summer still 10 million kilowatts (3.33 million households), is calculated as millions of kilowatts short of winter.

Power is not large for the tank as water and gas. Therefore, it is necessary to provide power supply demand amount. Power companies to fund the necessary power when its power plants, and Tooru Tooru get power from other power companies, the difference in the frequency of the power company can receive from the West to 100 kilowatts. Tohoku Electric Power is the same frequency, power and lack of disaster is not expected Tooru Tooru. Only get from the limits of 60 million kilowatts from Hokkaido Electric Power Transmission Technology.

TEPCO officials "were also fired and running again, not so much power into one regular inspection. This summer is likely to continue next summer as well winter is also a tightrope," he said.

Asahi Top Com

Keywords: Hokkaido Electric Power blackouts powered thermal power plant Toukyoudenryoku

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This is not sounding so good to me. They are apparently talking of problems well into NEXT summer and winter. No unexpected I guess but dang.

[Altheav]

DISCLAIMER: I am not a seismologist, meteorologist, or even a statistician. I am, however, a spreadsheet wrangler by vocation; given a set of data, I'll pivot it.

Anyway -- a lot of people have been wondering whether the amount of earthquakes Japan has been getting is normal for this time of year or not. After doing some digging, I managed to find the right link on the USGS website for downloading raw data. I pulled earthquakes of all magnitudes from 2000 to 2011, lattitude 45 to 30 & longitude 130 to 155. That should include most, if not all, of Japan. Here's a link to the Data Set Search Query results - not sure if that will still work or not.

Did a quick pivot on it to get a count of earthquakes occurring in March. While it's not at all unusual for them to get earthquakes between 3.5 and 5.0 this time of year, the number of quakes they are getting (due to aftershocks) is much, MUCH greater than normal.


Count of Japanese Earthquakes in March, 2000 - 2011 by Althea Valara, on Flickr