Honshu
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Honshu is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 01, 2023 and May 08, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “it moved Honshu, the main island of Japan”; “It guessed Honshu Japan”. It most often appears alongside France, Japan, 1960 Valdivia earthquake.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 01, 2023
- Last seen: May 08, 2025
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- France (2 shared issues)
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- Japan (2 shared issues)
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- 1960 Valdivia earthquake (1 shared issues)
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- @DeepGuessr (1 shared issues)
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- @scaling01 (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Discord (1 shared issues)
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- AEC (1 shared issues)
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- AIFP (1 shared issues)
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- Albania (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Zavoluk (1 shared issues)
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- AlphaGo (1 shared issues)
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- AlphaGo (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
This was five days after the Tōhoku earthquake, a slippage between tectonic plates so powerful that it moved Honshu, the main island of Japan, 2.4 meters to the east. The earthquake generated a tsunami 14 meters high, rolling over the coastline and submerging the protective sea walls of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. The water cut the plant’s electrical connection to the mainland and drowned its backup generators. Pumps responsible for passing 70 tons of water an hour to cool the reactors failed. Temperatures inside began to rise.
In hindsight it is clear that TEPCO performed poorly. It is less certain that it is realistic for nuclear operators and agencies to achieve perfect performance, in all countries, at all times. The Fukushima meltdown did not start with an accumulation of minor crises that Probabilistic Risk Assessment predicted would dominate failure. The Tōhoku earthquake was larger than was thought to be possible on the Honshu fault. Vulnerability to nuclear catastrophe might have sharpened through a slow accumulation of poor decisions. But the physical process was kicked off by a single, devastating event.
Inline links: TEPCO performed poorly
It guessed Honshu Japan, was Central Illinois. Distance wrong: 10,500 km