Another day, another quake, tsunami in Japan

[mooncliff]

Fairly strong quake off east coast of Honshu. Magnitude 7.3. Tokyo shook quite a bit, but Sendai was a weak 5 on the Japan shaking scale, which is serious shaking. I would guess not much damage in Tokyo. Evening rush hour may be disrupted.
There is a tsunami warning. Preliminary estimate 1 meter.

turned into a series of quakes.

Quake magnitude subsequently upped to 7.4. Type of quake in question. Actually, there were three of them over say 10 minutes.

[aaron]

Re: Another day, another quake, tsunami in Japan

Perhaps you should move to California where it is safe.

Thanks for the Japan update

By the way, my wife and I visited Tokyo some years ago. We stayed in one of those tall buildings. There was an earthquake; scary as hell. The building swayed SO much.
The buildings there are amazing.

[mooncliff]

Re: Another day, another quake, tsunami in Japan

Have you seen this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJzdtzl6KY

We get quakes often, so no one usually pays them any attention. What happened las year on March 11 was, however, something else. It did not feel like any quake I had ever felt before. One way to describe it would be if you had only heard lightning nearby... a loud sharp crack... but now you are hearing booming distant thunder from very far away at very low frequencies, and you realize how huge the lightning bolt must have been for you to hear it so far away.
The shaking started slowly but just kept building. All the Japanese people stood up and said oh no! We could tell this was something we had never experienced before. The aftershocks were really annoying, coming every few hours at first and continuing now and probably up to around 2020.

And the worst thing that has happened and will happen again is a huge quake from three faults extending along the entire south shore of Honshu. That would result in several hundred thousand dead in the worst case.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311dis...AJ201208300060
Economic loss would be about an entire year's GDP for Japan.

[c1ue]

Re: Another day, another quake, tsunami in Japan

The swaying is a feature. Buildings which don't sway, fall down.