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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.
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I am still dizzy from the shake (living in yokohama), plenty of blurry images right now in http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
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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.
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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
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It's roughly 100 times less energetic, not a big deal for Japan.
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 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...
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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
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Just wait until the "traditional" media catches up to us. They'll be playing it up for all it's worth.
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
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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.
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.
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You've been watching to much Superman.
This is actually a pretty cool thing. I would like to see a slider to adjust the minimum magnitude value to display though.
The Shinnosuke arc rocked, but are you sure many people are going to get this?
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/
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Or listening to too much Bill Hicks.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
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
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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
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You ARE aware of why the Rocky Mountains exist, right? Does that mechanical process strike you as one which is going to reverse itself?
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.
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I take that it all of your knowledge about Japanese legends are confined to manga and anime. Orochi was an eight-headed dragon. You really should look into some of the stories behind the various plot elements found in anime. Some of them are quite interesting.
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.
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
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And I'm willing to bet that solar flare that almost got the Messenger spacecraft contained neutrinos that heated the Earths core upon contact. It's certainly a fascinating theory you have there.
Nice sarcasm. Seriously though, the main point is the rapidly increasing rate of change in the magnetic pole. Since we've noticed the increase, it seems like we've entered an active period through the pacific.
You're right. We're as inaccurate as any other forum today, for some reason. Also, I seem to remember that it was never 9.0; rather, it was 8.9; the media should be fined logarithmicly for daring to round up 0.1 units in the Richter scale --it's exponentially more incorrect the larger the disaster.
Also note that 7.4 was officially downgraded to 7.1. See the newsspoiler.com result as of 1PM ET:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=7.1+earthquake+downgraded
There's no hour on the post, though. Am I the only one bothered by the tendency of blogs to lack public timestamps so that google ambiguously obsolete posts next to relevant ones ?
*pft* They can't even give us a way to only show a limited range of hours on the calendar - not even presets, not even for a paying F500 customer- and you want a magnitude adjustment slider? Yes it would be very nice though!
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It's a joke, you're supposed to laugh.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
INAG, but I suppose if you're serious I would ask if there's been any comparable event in the past that one could draw predictions from, and what exactly 'rapidly increasing' means in this context?
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Confirmation bias.
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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
CA has no risk of "falling" into the ocean. The faults there are all transform boundaries and slide horizontally against each other. Even if it were possible, do you think a seismic event of a scale that destroys a piece of continental plate the size of California would have no effects outside of that state? Can you imagine the size of the Tsunami that would head across the Pacific?
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.
I'm more inclined to think that the magma flux normally creates hotspots (such as iceland or hawaii), but takes advantage of oceanic rifts to dump heat from nuclear reactions down below.
But I'm inclined to think that *it* matches the tectonics, not vice versa.
Iif you look at the sudden motion of India as Gondwana shattered (145 ma), and note that there are a huge number of craters from Tiera Del Fuego to South Georgia Island in a Shoemaker-Levy-9 style strike, and then map that over to Gondwana, I think it will become perfectly clear that low-angle asteroid strikes drive plate tectonics.
Note, too, that *if* Shiva is an asteroid, then it would appear that it too struck India at the time of the Yucatan strike (65 ma) with a low-angle strike travelling N-NE, and opened the Deccan Traps -- but also drove India straight from its location then to its location now. Quite simply, the Deccan Traps are evidence of India being partially torn in two.
Plate tectonics is a very low energy event (1/2 m v^2: For Australia, about 10 kJ. For the whole plate, about 45 kJ... similar to a big truck going 2 m/s) but a very high momentum event (p=m*v: For australia, 10x10^12 kg*m/s, for the plate, about 45x10^12 kg*m/s). Therefore, it takes momentum transfer, not energy transfer, to affect plate motion.
So... basically the problem here isn't a change in magma flux. Rather, it might be that everything is converging on Hawaii (China, Australia, the North American Plate, and so on), and that makes the Ring of Fire a rather hot place to be.
Or... the problem might be that instead of giving glory to God, we are gnashing our teeth and blaspheming Him. Maybe if we allowed our chastisements to change our hearts, the problems would cease.
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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?
It's more likely that it's due to Global Warming.
Besides, it's George Bush's fault!
it is, in a way. it certainly is exactly how you treat it
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