Slashdot Mirror
7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued
There is breaking news that a 7.4 Magnitude Quake has hit off the coast of Japan, and a Tsuanmi warning has been made. Please post updates in the comments.
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
I am still dizzy from the shake (living in yokohama), plenty of blurry images right now in http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
Mu
According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency the tsunami is about 2m high. Coastal defences should be okay in most places but obviously anyone near the coast should retreat inland if possible.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
not funny
how's the time schedule for the trains in Japan?
The scales are logarithmic. 7.4 earthquake is about 150 times less powerful than a 9.2
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
o_O
It's roughly 100 times less energetic, not a big deal for Japan.
No one claimed they were close in power. 7.4 is still a strong earthquake and can still generate a damaging tsunami, especially in nearby areas.
14:32:41 & 14:32:00
about 100km apart (caveat not so good at spherical trig in head calculations)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia_eqs.php
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/
"Occurred at 23:32 JST 07 Apr 2011
Region name Miyagi-ken Oki
Depth about 40 km
Magnitude 7.4"
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
Article: Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits off Japan coast
Some quotes: "Officials say Thursday's quake was a 7.4-magnitude and hit 25 miles (40 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture." "Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute." "The Japan meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter." "Hundreds of aftershocks have shaken the northeast region devastated by the March 11 earthquake, but few have been stronger than 7.0."
"Tsuanmi warning"?
C'mon...
I would say that I hope this tsunami somehow cools of the nuclear reactor, but it would probably come off as cynical, so I won't say it.
i have no problem imaging Stevists in a circlejerk
Eww.
which is totally what she said
It's the psychological damage from repeated quakes that'll be the worse. Gaia's just rubbing salt in the japanese open flesh wound, over and over. If I'd be japanese, I'd be quite cross at this fucking planet. Cue in massive JAXA funding for moonbase in 3, 2, 1...
-- Home is where you eat your heart out.
The ring of fire has been clobbering everyone except the US. Indonesia, Chile, Japan all hit with 8s and 9s in the last few years. Strain is accumulating west of N. America. Very soon the west coast of the US is going to get nailed hard. It's been 47 years since N. America got hit by anything really big; Alaska's 9.2 in 1962.
Nine point two.
The clock is ticking.
For near real-time info surrounding the Tsunami impact http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/
I mean, it's just a little wave. It's not like a full on nuclear disaster.
it's long overdue
could take a month, could take a decade, but if you live on the US West Coast and you have not prepared for the big one, now is the time
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Someone find the sacrificial maidens
The USGS is like a million times better.
Here's the link: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0002ksa.php
and here's the Tsunami info:
http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.2011.04.07.143955
Karma: Excellent. 15 moderator points expire sometime.
the richter scale is logarithmic so a 9 is something like 30 times larger in energy than a 7.4. On the other hand the march quake was initially rated as a 7.1 scale quake then updated later to 9.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Seriously? Twitter is not news. Link an actual new site ffs. Thanks.
time to buy land in NV near the CA border. beach side casinos.
There's bound to be some semi-major quakes in the near future as well... I've been saying they need to do something to get that nuclear material away from Fukushima rather soon. Another tsunami hitting it probably wouldn't end well.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
I recently came across a google gadget that show recent magnitude 4+ earthquakes worldwide... http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/mapplets/earthquakes.xml
The gadget gets added to your igoogle page and shows where earthquakes have occurred in the past hour on an interactive Google Map - as with any map, you can zoom scroll etc. The size of the circle implies the magnitude of the quake, and the colour, how recently it occurred - past hour in red, past day, orange and past week yellow.... click the 'Earthquake Details' link in the info window for any icon on the map to get more specific information about that particular quake
Is this a new Trend? Color me impressed, been a bit since an actual news story was on here.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/japan.quake/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
Just trying to coin a new term.
Proverbs 21:19
I only heard 9.0 for the Japan earthquake. Did they officially upgrade it? If so, please update the wikipedia page.
If not, where did the number come from.
Also: 9.3 != 7.4
In case you did not know.
USGS is calling it a mag 7.1 not a 7.4. A significant difference. Please update the story subject line.
You can see where earthquakes have occurred in near realtime using the igoogle gadget:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/mapplets/earthquakes.xml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42473172/ns/world_news-asia-pacific/
Lowered from 7.4 to 7.1
Note the lame post-facto "sorta apology" to the readers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/how-will-japan-earthquake-affect-apples-ipad-supply-chain/9763
Authorâ(TM)s Note: A number of readers have complained that this article is insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Japanese people. Please accept my sincere apology. I have friends and former colleagues in Japan and I offered them my prayers for their safety and recovery last night. I have been to Japan and have a respect for its traditions and people. The devastation from the quake is terrible.
At the same time, my editorial mission here is to look at Apple, its products and markets. If that appears callous, I ask your forbearance. Some of the comments in the story were made several months ago, so please keep that context in mind.
http://www.businessinsider.com/gene-munster-apple-supply-demand-2011-3
Apple's supply chain is likely temporarily going to be affected by the Japan earthquake and tsunami, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster writes today, but demand for Apple products is stronger than ever, he says, and that should ultimately drive shares higher.
Hilarious phrasing here, "not much impact - more worried about the impact in the next quarter":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12782566
"In the short term, there won't be much impact," said chief executive Yang Yuanqing of Lenovo. "We are more worried about the impact in the next quarter."
No shit? Employee absences common?
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=774&doc_id=205416&f_src=internetevolution_gnews
Getting raw materials supplied and distributed remains a challenge in Japan. Disruptions to the country's transportation systems have made employee absences common. Interruptions in Japan's electricity supply have hindered maintenance of sensitive processes such as semiconductor lithography. Because of the setbacks, Apple delayed iPad2 shipments by one week from the original March 25 launch to allow it to catch up with production, given the shortfall in Japan-sourced parts.
But don't worry. Apple's supply chain is very robust and you'll be able to get your iPrick in time for Christmas.
http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/thestreet-apple-supply-chain-japan-supply/4/4/2011/id/33755
Apple's (AAPL) supply chain remains robust, according to analyst firm Canaccord Genuity.
"While we believe supply could be tight for the industry due to Japan, we believe Apple is leveraging its dominant market position and will fare much better than competitors," wrote Canaccord analyst Michael Walkley in a note Monday. "We believe suppliers will likely provide Apple with preferential supply, as Apple is often the largest customer for many suppliers."
it's also a useful figure of speech
we are standing at the intersection of science and psychology here. you tell me which is more persuasive with the general public. so i say "overdue", in complete udnerstanding of why that word is not accurate, and i do so with a clean mind. i am trying to motivate people, and science won't do that. psychology will
of course, you have to worry about boy-who-cried-wolf effects:
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/londons-overdue-killer-quake-a-case-study-in-media-sensationalism/
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Leave Japan alone :(
You know, Apple stuff all comes from China, not Japan. ("Designed" in California though. In case you only buy American "designed" stuff)
While at some level I understand your thoughts on this, I think there is a serious amount of hate and anger stored up in there somewhere. You should at least attempt to evaluate yourself a bit if not simply get some professional help. On my life of "first thoughts" Apple's supply chain doesn't even make the top 20 thoughts or concerns.
But since I bring that up...
My top "first thoughts" on the subject are (in no particular order of importance)
1. What?! Again!? Crap!!!
2. I'm glad I don't have or know anyone in the affected areas.
3. There is no way they can be prepared for this one.
4. This is a lesson to the Japanese business/government crowd as to the importance of disaster preparedness and planning, and that expenses for safety isn't eligible for reduction when seeking to increase their bottom lines.
5. When will all the wise-asses who have no sympathy for those suffering natural disasters respond?
It'll take a while for the scientists to agree on what it was. In the meantime, changing anything would be premature.
Tsunami alert has been called off.
But it's a logarithmic scale, so it's really only about 4 times better.
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson
the problem is the low iq racist morons
you find those on any site, but as time went on, they tended to represent a larger and larger piece of the k5 pie (which makes sense, because they were driving anyone not a low iq racist moron away)
k5 is a failed experiment, because it shows you can't let the inmates run the prison. you actually need to shoot a certain loud ignorant few of them in the head to keep things in order (i am advocating termination of account, not actual real life murder... i know you know i am speaking in analogy, but if the subject matter is k5, you have to be crystal clear because we are dealing with the issue of the dregs of society here, and some of those fucking retards might be reading this)
there are perhaps only 8 people on k5 that need to be removed (and actively re-removed, along with 40 of their puppet accounts, on an ongoing basis) before k5 is useful again. but no one will remove those 8. so those loud 8 will vomit their toxic ignorance (poor michael crawford), and drive everyone else away, until k5 is just those 8 completely useless twatstains, and k5 is completely and utterly dead to the realm of human thought
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The way the previous earthquake happened put more stress on the PAC / PHS /NAM plates.
There where already scientists watching the Plates of Tokyo prior to the 9.0
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
You ARE aware of why the Rocky Mountains exist, right? Does that mechanical process strike you as one which is going to reverse itself?
Until the Reps close it down.
Just checked it with IE9/64 bit and the link is borked there too. Guess they figure since no one bothers to RTFA why have working links.
Mod me up/Mod me down: I wont frown as I've no crown
7.4 is a major earthquake. That's about the size of the 1996 Kobe Earthquake, larger than the 1986 Loma Prieta quake. Even by Japanese standards it's large.
It's likely to have mild effects only because it occurred far offshore, not because 7.4 is small.
Just curious, does anyone think that the rapid increase in the rate of the magnetic pole's change could have something to do with this? The pole is created by the iron core of the earth, so theoreticaly if that liquid is rearranging, wouldn't the plates on top (more or less like ice cubes on water) be shuffling a bit to relocate? I can only imagine the closeness of the moon last month helped amplify things. Thoughts?
I thought it was just me.
and here's to hoping you're near the san andreas fault, and not the hayward fault, and not within a mile or two of the coast
portland, seattle, vancouver: we will miss you
record your beautiful cities as they are
because soon, we will say... as they were (shudder)
here's to hoping "as they were" does not apply to you as well
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I love this fantasy about Apple fans being insensitive to the Japanese when Slashdotters posted comments like this in the "Sony's NGCP May Be Delayed By Japan Quake" article. That particular comment, which says that "Anything that hurts Sony is good for the consumer," is currently +3 Funny.
(too soon?)
Don't worry, Slashdotters are more concerned with whether or not Sony's NGP gets delayed, because according to the linked comment, "anything that hurts Sony is good for the consumer" including devastating natural disasters. Modded up as "Funny."
I usually open links with MB3/Scroll/whatever-you-prefer-to-call-it. It no longer works on /. (I had to use MB2 + "open in new tab"). At first, I thought that my mouse is broken or the instance of Chrome doesn't work or something... But no. On other sites, clicking links with the middle button still works like it should.
I wonder if /. is messing around with some new JS. Perhaps we'll soon see an alert pop up warning us about copyright infringement if whe try right clicking anywhere!
It's a joke, you're supposed to laugh.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
well, apparently you noticed
the funniest thing about anonymous cowards crowing about how no one cares is how much they care
but mostly, you bile filled trolls are so cute. little shit nugget filled candies. munch, munch, munch... BUUUUURPP. excuse me
run along now cute little k5 troll. my how quickly they grow
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
what's K5?
New Economic Perspectives
kuro5hin.org
it was once quite the vanguard of comment boards, but it has absolutely degenerated. go, visit for yourself, see what filth it has become. not even entertaining filth
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
what is it exactly that motivates you and every other strange psychological anomaly out there that feels a need to scribble on restroom walls?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Here's an actual article, LESS TWITTER MORE NEWS.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/07/135206725/7-4-earthquake-rattles-japan-tsunami-warning-issued
Though it's worth noting that magnitude scales really are orders of magnitude, it's also worth noting that even a "weak" earthquake can cause catastrophic damage. The Haiti earthquake was "only" a 7.0, but it killed approximately 300,000 people, which is about 10 times any estimate I've heard of the death toll in Japan. The difference is that the Haiti earthquake hit a stone's throw away from a major population center. In earthquakes, much as in real estate, location is everything.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/07/japan-earthquake-tsunami-warning
- Tsunami warning cancelled
- Onagawa nuclear power plant lost power line, incl. for cooling the spent fuel pool, but the backup generator kicked in OK.
You know, Apple stuff all comes from China, not Japan.
("Designed" in California though. In case you only buy American "designed" stuff)
Not necessarily, certain parts are sourced in Japan. Specifically, from an eWeek.com article on supply woes: "iPad 2 components sourced from Japan, said the firm, include NAND flash from Toshiba; DRAMs (dynamic RAMs) from Elpida Memory; an electronic compass from AKM Semiconductor; the system battery from Apple Japan; and the iPad 2's touch-screen overlay glass, which, while not confirmed by Apple, is suspected to be from Asahi Glass."
Is relatively close to Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station, the only nuclear power station in Mexico. It has been recently upgraded and got increased their effective output a pair of years ago. It should be fine if the guys from Alstom and Iberdrola did a good job.
Mexico: 100% conservative's America now!
Seems its name was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Weird blue light-balls appear during the earthquake according to this tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgooTL9hEc0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTlq18oEr_4
Drug-dealers digging to China,
to transport their Dope-in-Ice operation,
rather than risk the cubes melting like an iceberg at sea?
it is, in a way. it certainly is exactly how you treat it
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it