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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."
You realize it's still in the main page's title right?
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.
Agreed, how on earth is an average earthquake in a country that is used to minor earthquakes. Just because there was an earthquake to break all recorded records over there once, Next news story, thunderstorm hits new orleans, no deaths or damage.
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?
Arrest the geologists!
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Earthquakes were fairly frequent in Japan ...
Little creaks happen all the time in that place. Why is it suddenly deemed worth reporting?
I live in Japan and this kind of quake has been common since March, and is nothing to get excited about or make a special report on. When I saw the article headline (not long after waking up) I thought I might have missed something big, but no, it's just another offshore tremor.
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...
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They've had 8 M6+ earthquakes this year. Why is this news? Skylar
Tsunami hits Japan, Japan completely unprepared
They didn't even have a word for it!
My head just exploded...
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I tried this. It says:
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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.
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.
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Indeed. There were something like twenty 6+ quakes while I was there in April June and July.
Only thing I can think is there were a few in one day and it got noticed. Kind of sad that the whole Japan recovery effort is pretty much absent from the US media.
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?
which earthquake broke all records? the march quake didn't even come close ,except in nominal dollar damage. The worst was the Great Tokyo quake with over 100k dead. And Japan's earthquakes are not generally known for incredible strength, those being in Chile, Alaska and Sumatra.