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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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The scales are logarithmic. 7.4 earthquake is about 150 times less powerful than a 9.2
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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"
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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
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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
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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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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.
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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