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Now getting back to the two small earthquakes off the coast near Fukushima today. The question is, did they cause ground movement at Fukushima #1. Answer - Yes they did. You can see the ground movement on the video archives for the Tepco live camera. Both earthquakes and the video with time location of ground movement are listed below. This is a intuitive way to see the amount of ground motion that the plant experiences.

First Quake.

Magnitude 4.7 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Local time was about 4:10 pm. You can see the resulting ground movement via the camera shaking at the 32 to 33 second mark. Basically archive video is fast forward of 1 hour crammed into 3 minutes of video time. So 30 seconds of video is about 10 minutes of real time.

2012.01.09 16:00-17:00 / Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Second Quake.

Magnitude 4.7 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Local time was about 5:50 pm. You can see the resulting ground movement via the camera shaking at the 2:30 to 2:31 minute mark. Basically archive video is fast forward of 1 hour crammed into 3 minutes of video time. So 2:30 minutes of video is about 50 minutes of real time.

2012.01.09 17:00-18:00 / (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Note to Japan - Please do not turn off the Tepco live video feed or the updated radiation monitoring in Fukushima.

Last update to this thread. There is a new JNN Camera feed. Link is below. Looks like they knocked down two more sections of wall in the Reactor #4 building. As you look at the JNN feed, the left wall of #4 is light up very bright at night. The front or right end sections of that wall are no longer there. They are apparently continuing with the demolition of the building. Probably at least somewhat related to the support of #4 SFP.

JNN LIVE

This video shows the work crew that arrived and walked around the #4 building on January 6. Stop the video at 1 second and you will see the #4 reactor building with the two left front wall panel sections still intact. Looks like they have really accelerated the demolition efforts.

2012-01-06 TBS/JNN/