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Originally Posted by Shaelyn

for those wondering about the nuclear event scale:

International Nuclear Event Scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a 6 out of 7 is a serious accident, with a significant release of radioactive material.
This means it's worse than the Three Mile Incident. that was a 5.
Chernobyl is the only 7.

But Chernobyl was much older technology and if this had been like that plant it would have all been over (in the worst way) on day 1.

as for the new quake... 6.1, the first quake due west of Tokyo. I'm still watching the USGS site.

I was thinking about Fuji before the nuclear reactors started melting...I really didn't want to say it, though... Japan needs to get better!

Ah,ha! Another geo-geek! I finally weened myself away from the USGS sometime Sunday, except for random quick checks.

I hadn't thought about Fuji, but only because there is another volcano - Mt. Iwate. Surprisingly, its web cam is still up!