Post by unique72 on Jan 4, 2024 18:59:17 GMT
I joined the forum here for the express purpose of asking about this.
There was an earthquake and tsunami that struck NE Japan in March, 2011. The Fukushima nuclear power plant was badly damaged. Over the years since then, the plant has been deactivated and hundreds of tanks were brought in to contain radioactive contaminated water. I put a yellow map tack on this site back in 2011. The other night, I went back to look at it again. No tanks were visible. I looked at the various "updated" views since 2011. Then I looked at photos of the site shown elsewhere on the internet. My conclusion is that Google Earth has not updated this location with real time images since before 2011. The images of the area have been "updated," but with pictures taken prior to 2011. None of the Google Earth images show the hundreds of water tanks, various ponds, decommissioned and dismantled buildings, etc. I'm not looking for a conspiracy here, but could it be that the Japanese government or TEPCO have asked or compelled Google to continue posting outdated images intentionally?
Note. I've been using Google Earth Pro. Which shows real time updates for places like NE Japan mudslide damage in 2022, and destroyed cities in Ukraine like Mariupol since 2022. I've looked at the images on the web version of Google Earth and it shows the same pre-2011 images of Fukushima as the Pro version.
There was an earthquake and tsunami that struck NE Japan in March, 2011. The Fukushima nuclear power plant was badly damaged. Over the years since then, the plant has been deactivated and hundreds of tanks were brought in to contain radioactive contaminated water. I put a yellow map tack on this site back in 2011. The other night, I went back to look at it again. No tanks were visible. I looked at the various "updated" views since 2011. Then I looked at photos of the site shown elsewhere on the internet. My conclusion is that Google Earth has not updated this location with real time images since before 2011. The images of the area have been "updated," but with pictures taken prior to 2011. None of the Google Earth images show the hundreds of water tanks, various ponds, decommissioned and dismantled buildings, etc. I'm not looking for a conspiracy here, but could it be that the Japanese government or TEPCO have asked or compelled Google to continue posting outdated images intentionally?
Note. I've been using Google Earth Pro. Which shows real time updates for places like NE Japan mudslide damage in 2022, and destroyed cities in Ukraine like Mariupol since 2022. I've looked at the images on the web version of Google Earth and it shows the same pre-2011 images of Fukushima as the Pro version.
