8.8 Magnitude Earthquake hit Japan

[Sgt Beavis]

I think that by the time this is all settled, we'll see a loss of over 100K... bodies still yet to be recovered/counted, radiation, disease, hunger, etc.

Sendai has (had) a population of 1million. So I certainly won't be surprised at that number.

[mstng86]

Surely they have a good understanding of how many people are missing by now, right?

Anyone seen that number?

[Denny]

Surely they have a good understanding of how many people are missing by now, right?

Anyone seen that number?

You're going to see that we can't trust these numbers just yet. Not for casualties, missing, threats (radiation), progress, or just about anything else for that matter.

[Sgt Beavis]

The Tokyo one went blank also.

Stevo

New Geiger Counter site:

http://park18.wakwak.com/~weather/geiger_index.html

Normal range is usually under 60 CPM. Over 130 is not good.
100 CPM is equivalent to 1 microsievert or 0.1 millirem.
The dangerous level recorded at one of the reactors this morning was 400,000 microsieverts.

[Denny]

Oh, is that all?

[mstng86]

Doesn't seem like alot........................

[Sgt Beavis]

Doesn't seem like alot........................

It isn't. The winds are blowing most of this shit out to sea.

[Denny]

I guess I'm reading it wrong because that looks like a lot. 400,000 microsieverts is like 40 million CPM, according to what you posted.

[Sgt Beavis]

I guess I'm reading it wrong because that looks like a lot. 400,000 microsieverts is like 40 million CPM, according to what you posted.

I think you got that backwards.
100 CPM is equivalent to 1 microsievert or 0.1 millirem.

400,000 microsiverts / 100 CPM = 4000 CPM

However I should note that I copied this info from a Japanese news blog. I'll go confirm.

[mstng86]

I got the 4000, its still way more than 100.

[Strychnine]

I guess I'm reading it wrong because that looks like a lot. 400,000 microsieverts is like 40 million CPM, according to what you posted.

400000 microsieverts = 400 millisieverts. That's what the #3 reactor was measured at yesterday.

1 sievert = 100 rem

What is a lethal dose from a single instance of radiation? According to studies made after the atomic bomb explosions in 1945 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, half of the people died whose entire bodies were exposed to 450,000 millirems of radiation from the atomic bomb. All persons died whose bodies were exposed to 600,000 millirems of radiation.

400 millisieverts = 40 000 millirem.

That's more than a full order of magnitude less than the LD 50 at Hiroshima. Also keep in mind that the 400 millisievert number is from right next to the reactor building.

[Denny]

400000 microsieverts = 400 millisieverts. That's what the #3 reactor was measured at yesterday.

1000 millisieverts = 1 millirem



400 millisieverts = 40 000 millirem.

That's more than a full order of magnitude less than the LD 50 at Hiroshima.

OK that makes more sense now.

[Sgt Beavis]

Oh shit...

A 6.0 just hit NEXT TO Mt. FUJI...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=35.3+138.7&aq=&sll=34.975562,138.38276&sspn=1.667588,2.91687&g=Shizuoka,+Shizuoka+Prefecture,+Japan&ie=UTF8&ll=35.297194,138.701019&spn=0.830528,1.458435&t=h&z=10

[Steve]

Surely they have a good understanding of how many people are missing by now, right?

Anyone seen that number?

There is no telling how many are buried in all that mud and water. It's a very sad place to be right now.

[Sgt Beavis]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc00023fx.php