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No danger for Kamchatka over breakdown at nuclear plants in Japan

14/3 Tass 128

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, March 14 (Itar-Tass) -- The breakdowns at the nuclear power plants in Japan pose no danger for Kamchatka, chief of the main EMERCOM department in the Kamchatka Territory Anatoly Plevako told reporters on Monday.
He noted that the environmental monitoring is constant on the
peninsula. According to the latest reports, the radiation level makes 5-7 micro-roentgen/hr with the natural radiation level at 14 micro-roentgen.
"Nothing threatens the population in case of an unpredicted situation in Japan," Plevako noted.
The air masses are not expected to move towards Kamchatka from Japan, a source in the Kamchatka weather forecasting center told Itar-Tass. A cyclone moving from Sakhalin will pass along the eastern coast of the peninsula in the Pacific on March 15. But "the cyclone will not come from Japan."
There are no prerequisites for a probable strong earthquake off
Kamchatka soon, the Kamchatka branch of the RAS geophysical service said.
Meanwhile, in the medium-term prospect up to one year earthquakes
measured seven points may break out off the eastern coast of the southern part of the peninsula and in the remote future up to five years an earthquake measured 7.5 points may occur with the probability rate up to 50%, experts believed.

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