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6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Japan
tekgoblin writes "Japan shook with yet another earthquake today. Its magnitude was 6.6 and its epicenter was about 60 miles off shore. Initially Japan had warned citizens of a possible tsunami, but they've since cancelled it. No damage or casualties have been reported."
Here we go again !!
Godzilla !!
Japan gets earthquakes. Nothing to see here.
The Earth is telling the Japanese people to go back to their native land of Korea.
Tsunami hits Japan, Japan completely unprepared
This gave me the chance to realize that the 'subline' "news for nerds, stuff that matters" has been removed, presumably with the all new design. Right so!
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
Not news. I get notifications from the USGS for EQs 6.0+. They've been having 1 or 2 per month since the big one in March. This is the largest since a 7.0 on July 10.
This earth quake comes right after they announced to move to renewable energy. Not a coincidence. The so called green technology isn't so green after all. Each year more people die of shark attacks than get stabbed with a uranium rod. Think about that before you build a hydro dam. And wind energy isn't any safer. While depleted Uranium can be a fun and educational toy, hundreds of houses are destroyed by tornadoes each year. And to store all the solar energy one would have to pave the entire state of Arizona with batteries. Once they leak, everyone in New Mexico would die.
Take the seismologists to court for failing to predict the quake, or does that only happen in Italy?
Anything involving Japan in intrinsically nerdy.
Arrest the geologists!
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ljJ1ANj6dw
M6.2 was occured at Sep 15, no problem. Japanese people don't care such a small quake, less than M7.0.
The opportunities for Groundbreaking research are still rocking the geosciences world as another earthquake shakes Japan. Its likely connected to the 6.3 earthquake that shook 91 km west of Gold River BC on Vancouver Island on September 9, and the 4.0 quake that shook the same spot yesterday. Like California, there are a number of fault lines off of Canada's west coast where the North American plate rides over the Pacific plate (and where buckling occurs, you get geological formations like the Coast, Rocky, --and further south Sierra Nevada-- Mountains). There are mini quakes on Vancouver Island about every 18 months (almost like clockwork) and more major events also like clockwork over a wider span of time, and then even greater events (like the 1964 Alaska earthquake) over an even greater span of time.
Earthquakes were fairly frequent in Japan ...
Little creaks happen all the time in that place. Why is it suddenly deemed worth reporting?
This is just an aftershock from Japan's big one. It isn't interesting. What's interesting?
The slight to moderate quakes across the entire US are interesting. The Virginia quake is the biggest; but if you look on the map now you can still see a triangular pattern that covers Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. Those are smaller quakes--3 to 4 magnitude. There was one in Alabama too.
Quakes in that range are not unheard of in the eastern and midwest US; but it seems like there have been a lot more of them lately. Unfortunately, I don't have rigorous stats to back that up, or to distinguish it from the expected outcome based on pure chance.
Yesterday's 7.3 Fiji quake was interesting too because it was so deep.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
ok guys, why not a link to the excellent japanese metrological agency earthquake information in english?
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/00000000091.html
Some how I don't think the current occupants of Korean peninsula would be receptive to the idea... indeed, I suspect many of them would find the very concept of being grouped with the Japanese as being of same origin deeply insulting, irrespective of what genetical evidence there might be.
And please don't encourage the Japanese to try to reestablish the Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere again; the last time they tried it, most other occupants of the said sphere did not fare well...
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
They've had 8 M6+ earthquakes this year. Why is this news? Skylar
Will be glad to get 2012 out of the way.
This is why we need to stop relying on the earthquake's peak energy output for determining newsworthy events - deep strong quakes can do diddly squat and yet the idiot journalists see the big number and automatically think it's newsworthy. Rate earthquakes based on how much damage they do, not based on how much energy is released. A 5.0 under St. Louis would be several orders of magnitude more newsworthy than a deep 8.0 out in the middle of fucking nowhere.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell.
c'mon japan.
However devastating, the earth quake earlier this year was not "The Big One" for Japan. The real "Big One" is supposed to hit the land mass that Tokyo is on with a magnitude well over 7. The epicenter will probably be about 100 miles south of Tokio and this type of quake is known in Japan as a "Tokai earth quake". They have had several before and the last one in 1854 caused most of Tokyo to burn to the ground and thousands died. Since Tokai quakes tend to happen every 100-150 years, the next one is due any moment now.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Ok...now i know something is fishy!!
If you get that size magnitude earthquake, it must be something going on, and my thoughts are that maybe china or korea might be testing their nukes under the water....that would force the tsunamis and earthquakes for sure....
My next thought is a scary one though, if you could forcibly sink Japan as a whole , then your whole shoreline becomes the mecca for import and trading ...could this be china's way of forcing there be no competition for all their trading business.
where as now it seems Japan gets a lot of traffic.
Now before you go and claim I am too into the conspiracy theory and argue that no country would ever do that knowing that they would feel retribution....
if it is done in such a way as to look like it was a natural disaster...earthquakes, then it is possible it would not even enter any world leader's mind that this is being done on purpose....although I prefer just being a side effect of under water testing myself...i would hate to see what would happen if my thoughts were dead on....would this force the US or the world to retaliate on behalf of Japan?
I was asleep in Sapporo 6 floors up and it didn't even wake me up.