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Tsunami? More like NEW-nami.
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Yep. Another one.
Tokyo (CNN) -- A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Thursday, triggering a tsunami warning for one prefecture.
Workers evacuated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the quake, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Tokyo Electric said it has communication with the plant and the power is still on. There were no immediate reports of damage, it said.
The quake's epicenter was off the coast of Miyagi in northeastern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Public broadcaster NHK reported a tsunami warning for Miyagi prefecture, saying people in that area should evacuate away from the shore to a safe place.
NHK also reported a tsunami advisory for Iwate prefecture, saying a tsunami is expected to arrive in coastal regions there as well.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said based on all available data, "a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected and there is not a tsunami threat to Hawaii."
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 41 miles (66 kilomemeters) from Sendai -- one of the areas worst hit by last month's 9.0-magnitude quake -- and 73 miles (118 kilometers) from Fukushima, where a crisis has been under way at the nuclear plant since last month's tsunami.
The quake was centered 207 miles (333 kilometers) from Tokyo, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
It was 15.9 miles (25.6 kilometers) deep, the agency reported.
It took place shortly after 11:30 p.m. local time
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What?
Lately people have been saying that's when the world ends or whatever, and they always use natural disasters as 'evidence' of it.
Anyway, prayers to the Japanese. This is a lot of shit to have to put up with and rebuild in the wake of.
Earth is like a plate of sliced ham.
2012.
I thought they had been predicting a large aftershock for a while.
With a big quake you're gonna have a long period of aftershocks as things get sorted out.
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Well I figured this was an earthquake and not an aftershock. I mean, how long does the aftershock period go for?
It's a very active area and activity is bound to spike at some, unfortunate, times.
So either this is an uptick period of earthquake activity, or it just sucks to live in Japan
http://www.alohaupdate.com/2011/04/07/7-4-earthquake-strikes-japan-no-hawaii-tsunami-warning/
It'll probably cause some minor flood damage but no one should be in any real danger.
Earthquake sucks though.
Three feet of water is quite a bit of water.
Depends on how big the quake is
It is. Which is why it will cause some flooding damage and no one should be near the beaches/at sea level. But this isn't some 20+ foot wave taking down buildings and sinking ships.
Ninja edit: And CNN is telling me now that even this warning is being called off and people are just being told to avoid the beach.
Delicious?
And I didn't know that about aftershocks. I figured the range was maybe a week or two and then everything after those two weeks would be a new earthquake.
To conceptualize just how big things are: the blast wave of an asteroid hitting the earth would take days to reach the opposite side. The plates involved here are a large part of that size. When a plate slips, it takes a long time for all the bouncing around to register.
It should be noted that 7.0-7.9 earthquakes happen regularly, about 1 per month, and are expected after a 9.0.
Hence my worry about other seismically active areas eventually catching up with what's going on over near Japan. Has anyone speculated what effect this could have elsewhere in the world? Or is there even any way to know?