Junk Plant Watts Bar: 4.2 Earthquake Right Under Plant

What about the lessens learned from Fukushima? So its design is 6.0, with a safety margin of lets say 10%. Basically this is Trumpian truth. See how all these officials learned this from Trump. 

"Here in East Tennessee you have to go all the way back to the 1800s to get to the most significant earthquake, which was above a 6.0," TVA spokesperson Jim Hopson said. "So today's 4.4 is not even close to what we're designed to withstand, which is above a 6.0 earthquake." 

 Tennessee Earthquake, Strongest in Decades, Jolts Homes in the Region and Atlanta

By Matthew Haag

Dec. 12, 2018

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday morning in rural Eastern Tennessee, rattling homes as far away as Atlanta in the region’s most powerful jolt in more than 45 years.

The earth shook around 4:14 a.m. local time just outside Decatur, Tenn., a city of about 1,600 people near the Great Smoky Mountains, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was shallow, about five and a half miles below the surface, sending ripples throughout the area and into neighboring states.

It was the strongest earthquake in Eastern Tennessee since a 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Maryville, Tenn., in 1973, the National Weather Service said.

About 150 miles to the south, people in Atlanta said they woke up on Wednesday to their houses shaking. There were no reports of injuries or serious damage.

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Karen Webb, a dispatcher at the Meigs County Sheriff’s Department in Decatur, said a few residents called to report that small items had shifted in their houses during the earthquake.

“A picture turned over,” Ms. Webb said. “Maybe a lamp.”

The earthquake struck about two miles east of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, one of the largest nuclear power stations in the United States. But the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates the plant, said Watts Bar suffered no damage.