Earthquakes

Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes - Global

5.2 Earthquake hits eastern Kashmir.

5.1 Earthquake hits near the south coast of Honshu, Japan.

5.1 Earthquake hits eastern Xinjiang, China.

5.0 Earthquake hits Easter Island.

Japan's Fukushima Reactor Contaminates Groundwater and Ocean

The operators of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant concede that highly radioactive groundwater has leaked into the Pacific from beneath the oceanside facility, leading to fears of contamination of marine life.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) says it believes the groundwater is being fed by water in trenches around the reactors, which contain high levels of tritium, cesium, strontium and other unnamed substances.

Earlier this month, TEPCO said groundwater samples taken at the plant showed levels of cancer-causing cesium-134 had shot up more than 110 times in a few days.

This was occurring more than two years after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that led to the plant’s reactor meltdowns.