Taken from boingboing: Photo by Reuters Documents from Tokyo Electric, the operator of the Japanese nuclear plants in crisis after Friday’s devastating quake and tsunami, reveal that the company tested the Fukushima plant to withstand a quake up to magnitude 7.9. That threshold is well below the force of Friday’s quake, recently upgraded to 9.0.…
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Here is a screen from Amazon Web Services. I think the advertisement they make for their new datacenter is unlucky, to say the least. Link.
Skyscrapers moving around in Tokyo during the 8.9 earthquake. Link.
Reading a little on the backgrounds of the Fukushima nuclear plants I stumbled upon allthingsnuclear. An interesting site with coverage of the problems in Fukushima, but also quiet some background on other nuclear issues the world currently copes with. Link.
Nature can be so beautiful. Please wait for the camera to go into landscape.