Strong Quake Hits Hokkaido in Northern Japan

bemildred

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Sun Nov-28-04 03:03 PM
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Strong Quake Hits Hokkaido in Northern Japan

7.1 preliminary.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 hit a wide area of Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido early Monday, Japanese media said, quoting the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The agency issued a tsunami warning, media said.

Reuters

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smirkymonkey

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Sun Nov-28-04 03:32 PM
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1. I subscribe to earthquake alerts just because I started noticing

an increase in the incidence and severity of quakes around the world over the past year or so.

It is amazing how they continue to happen w/ more frequency and greater magnitude as time goes on. I am not a scientist, but I find the empirical evidence quite disturbing. It seems as though we are due for a "big one" soon, meaning massive damage and loss of human life. It's only a matter of when and where.

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Viva_La_Revolution

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Sun Nov-28-04 04:03 PM
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3. Mt St Helens - update...

Edited on Sun Nov-28-04 04:09 PM by Viva_La_Revolution

For those of us on the west coast..

todays picture - ooohhh!

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

I heard the quakes ramped up again yesterday. I'll go check...

on edit: Bummer, I was misinformed. still at level orange, still could blow any minute or not for years. Hey! like the terror alert!

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Oreegone

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Sun Nov-28-04 03:57 PM
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2. I signed up for them too

I am amazed at the severity and frequency of quakes recently. 6.0s or higher at least a couple times a week. Japan alone has had at least 5 in recent weeks. It used to be a real wowing event when this magnitude occured, now it barely makes the news unless there is serious destruction.

Did you notice Mt. St. Helens rattled again yesterday. That ring of fire is real busy.

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nashville_brook

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Sun Nov-28-04 04:44 PM
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4. earthquakes piss me off

ever since one woke me up in TN

they make me think that earth is having an allergic reaction to us. which is deserved. she has every right to brush us boogers off.

then i think how much that sounds like ends times stuff -- god's revenge and such. then, it pisses me off that california gets quakes and texas doesn't. that plays right into the xtian wackos hand. and then i get even more pissed.

damn, i hate earthquakes.

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spinbaby

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Sun Nov-28-04 05:00 PM
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5. Japan has really been hit hard

I don't think most Americans realize the extent of the damage from the last set of quakes. I watched NHK news on NWI and there were mountain villages cut off for days from the landslides. Also much damage to buidings and infrastructure. At least Hokkaido isn't that heavily populated.

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Art_from_Ark

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Mon Nov-29-04 09:29 AM
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6. Yeah, there have been a lot of earthquakes in Japan recently

Edited on Mon Nov-29-04 09:31 AM by Art_from_Ark

This makes the second big one in Hokkaido within a year. There was also the series of quakes in Niigata that you referred to which was the deadliest seismic disaster since Kobe 1995 and which included hundreds of aftershocks. Not to mention the series of quakes in Sendai on the Pacific coast about 200 miles N of Tokyo that occurred last year. And then there was a recent 5.8 quake whose epicenter was only about 2 miles from my home!

:scared:

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