Tokyo hit by earthquake

[Jayngfet]

Yet another quake thread, this time it was Japan hit. (http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/japan/2010/03/15/248334/Strong-earthquake.htm) Fortunately since it wasn't in a poorly built area nothing major collapsed and there were no reported casualties.

Reports are sketchy on the involvement of Godzilla.

[CrimsonAngel]

Another earthquake? What the hell?

[Forever Curious]

Yet another quake thread, this time it was Japan hit. (http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/japan/2010/03/15/248334/Strong-earthquake.htm) Fortunately since it wasn't in a poorly built area nothing major collapsed and there were no reported casualties.

Reports are sketchy on the involvement of Godzilla Quetzalcoatl.

Fixed that for you.

[Thanatos 51-50]

This is the summary of the Japanese Meteorological Agency's data on the 'quake. (http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20100314171703491-141708.html)

No reports of damage have reached my ears.
It felt kinda like a gentle massage, to be honest. No much of a 'quake where I was sitting.

[Forever Curious]

This is the summary of the Japanese Meteorological Agency's data on the 'quake. (http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20100314171703491-141708.html)

No reports of damage have reached my ears.
It felt kinda like a gentle massage, to be honest. No much of a 'quake where I was sitting.

Still, it was another earthquake, the third (or more, I get all my news from the Playground and thus don't keep up) earthquake in the last few months. I'm not a train professional, but that strikes me as a lot in that timespan.

[CrimsonAngel]

More than 3. I remember Haiti, Turkey, Chille and Tokyo.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Clearly, the Youkijin are waking up.

[Lycan 01]

Yeah, that's the 4th big one... I wonder where the next one will be, since I doubt it'll be the last.

[CrimsonAngel]

Not down here!

[Lycan 01]

A fault line runs down the length of the Mississippi River. Last time it was active was over 200 years ago, IIRC. And it changed the direction in which the river flowed. If there was a quake here in Mississippi, it'd ravage the whole state, since very, very, very few buildings have been built to withstand Earthquakes.

I'd personally prefer if that didn't happen... :smallsigh:

[CrimsonAngel]

Oooo! :smalleek:

[Brennan]

I'm willing to bet the earthquakes are causing one another. I mean, the friction caused by two vibrating tectonic plates has to go somewhere, right? I'm expecting a wide range of earthquakes that exponentially decrease in magnitude as they occur.

Then again, I'm no scientist, and therefore have no real idea what I'm talking about.

[BRC]

I didn't see the last word in the thread title when I was browsing the forum, my first thought was "Please let the last word be Godzilla"

[Serpentine]

Ah, Australia... Few earthquakes that can even be felt, rarely cyclones anywhere that matter, no tornados*, New Zealand will probably absorb most any major tsunamis... Just horrifying bushfires, chronic drought and disastrous floods for us! =D Wait...


*not entirely true: willy-willies get big enough to be comparable to a tornado, but they're always waaaaaay out in the emptiest parts of the desert.

[CrimsonAngel]

Don't forget the poison.

[Soterion]

Still, it was another earthquake, the third (or more, I get all my news from the Playground and thus don't keep up) earthquake in the last few months. I'm not a train professional, but that strikes me as a lot in that timespan.

Probably selection bias. Because of the Haitian earthquake, which was particularly devastating, earthquakes are in the news, which means we're more likely to notice quakes when they do occur. According to the USGS, fourteen quakes above 6.0 on the Richter scale have occurred since Jan. 1. Of those quakes, 2 appear to be aftershocks from the Jan. 3 Solomon Islands quake, one is an aftershock from the Chile quake. That's eleven independent quakes. For the similar period in 2009, Jan 1 - Mar 19, ten independent quakes above 6.0 occurred.

[Brennan]

Probably selection bias. Because of the Haitian earthquake, which was particularly devastating, earthquakes are in the news, which means we're more likely to notice quakes when they do occur. According to the USGS, fourteen quakes above 6.0 on the Richter scale have occurred since Jan. 1. Of those quakes, 2 appear to be aftershocks from the Jan. 3 Solomon Islands quake, one is an aftershock from the Chile quake. That's eleven independent quakes. For the similar period in 2009, Jan 1 - Mar 19, ten independent quakes above 6.0 occurred.

Good point. I had scarcely even considered that. It very well could be that we're just more earthquake-sensitive after Haiti. Then again, I very much enjoy feeling smart with my own "domino effect" theory.

[Rockphed]

Probably selection bias. Because of the Haitian earthquake, which was particularly devastating, earthquakes are in the news, which means we're more likely to notice quakes when they do occur. According to the USGS, fourteen quakes above 6.0 on the Richter scale have occurred since Jan. 1. Of those quakes, 2 appear to be aftershocks from the Jan. 3 Solomon Islands quake, one is an aftershock from the Chile quake. That's eleven independent quakes. For the similar period in 2009, Jan 1 - Mar 19, ten independent quakes above 6.0 occurred.

Where did you get that data? I want to mine it for half baked theories that I will post for you amusement.

[Soterion]

www.usgs.gov

[Thanatos 51-50]

I'd also like to point out an error in the thread title.
Tokyo was NOT hit by a 6.6 quake. (http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/3/360/20100314171703491-141708.html)
All of the tremors felt in Tokyo rated a two or three on the JMA scale. According to this handy chart I've pulled from usgs.gov, this corresponds to a II-III on the Richter scale. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010tva3/us/index.html)

[Asta Kask]

I'm willing to bet the earthquakes are causing one another. I mean, the friction caused by two vibrating tectonic plates has to go somewhere, right? I'm expecting a wide range of earthquakes that exponentially decrease in magnitude as they occur.

Then again, I'm no scientist, and therefore have no real idea what I'm talking about.

I think it may be more a question of a lot of tension building up and then all of it releasing at once. But I have been wrong before.

[Graymayre]

As the tectonic plates shift in one area of the planet it cause a new opening for others to shift elsewhere. The end result is a series of decaying quakes across the world.

[Rogue 7]

I'm starting a semester abroad in Tokyo next week. Wouldn't that have been a nice greeting.

[Jayngfet]

I'd also like to point out an error in the thread title.
Tokyo was NOT hit by a 6.6 quake. (http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/3/360/20100314171703491-141708.html)
All of the tremors felt in Tokyo rated a two or three on the JMA scale. According to this handy chart I've pulled from usgs.gov, this corresponds to a II-III on the Richter scale. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010tva3/us/index.html)

Right, sorry about that. Must've been operating on falce information.

[Yora]

When I had geography as my minor at university, one day we talked about earthquakes. We started at 10:15 and the first thing the professor did was showing us a chart of all the earthquakes that happened in the world between 0:00 and 9:35 of that very same day. Was lots of them.

Yay, I actually found that site. It's run by the faculty for geo-sciences at the university Potsdam: http://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/db/eqinfo.php
Here's the same in map-form: http://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/geofon//seismon/globmon.html
And it doesn't even show those under a magnitude of 4.