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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/
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.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
not funny
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
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."
Most are already offline, it happened at 11:30 there, the shinkansen have probably almost all stopped, most regional services in the area probably weren't running at any real capacity anyway, so I doubt they would be running there. It was far enough away from Tokyo that I doubt any of the metros were really affected.
:P) when a 6.1 struck Shizuoka. I have to hand it to the designers and operators of those cars, they handled it really well. You could actually barely feel anything on the car, but all of a sudden the lights went out and the train came to a sudden, but not abrupt stop since we lost all power. No derailing, no injuries.
FWIW I was riding on the shinkansen(headed to Germany for a bit since I didn't have water and food at my place
Monstar L
For near real-time info surrounding the Tsunami impact http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/
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
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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Maybe someone from the future is trying to sink the island before they start turning out robot armies.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It is the BBC's twitter feed. They hadn't written the article at that point, but they have now, and you can find it here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13005110
One step in magnitude means a factor 10 increase in ground displacement. In energy this is about a factor 30 per magnitude. A 7.0 packs about 900 times less energy than a 9.0. The new earthquake has already been revised to 7.1.
Just trying to coin a new term.
Proverbs 21:19
hey, you try typing on a shaking keyboard!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
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."
Leave Japan alone :(
Or more likely, completely destroy the oceanic ecosystem.
While tragic, the disasters in Japan have brought a small yet direly needed reprieve from Japan's massive and completely disproportionate over fishing of the seas.
The British rail system is the most advanced in the world. Nowhere else do the stations have an automated system for generating and announcing plausible excuses for delays.
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A 9 releases 1000 times the energy of a 7:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale#Definition
And a 9 is about 250 times more powerful than a 7.4 (there is a factor of 1.5 in the exponent that "it's just a logarithmic scale" misses).
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
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
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 mean, it's just a little wave. It's not like a full on nuclear disaster.
And the "nuclear disaster" pales into triviality compared to the tsunami that caused it, despite the media obsession. ... you were being ironic. Sorry.
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