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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 06:08 PM
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Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake Rattles Eastern Japan Again; Tsunami Alert Issued
Source: washingtonpost

By Associated Press, Sunday, March 27, 6:56 PM

NEW YORK — A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook eastern Japan off the quake-ravaged coast on Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, prompting Japan to issue a tsunami alert.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that a tsunami of up to 1.6 feet (a half meter) may wash into Miyagi Prefecture.

The alert was prompted by a quake that the U.S. Geological Survey measured at 7:23 a.m. Monday Japan time (2223 GMT Sunday) near the east coast of Honshu.

The USGS said the quake was 3.7 miles (5.9 kilometers) deep.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/magnitude-65-earthquake-rattles-eastern-japan-again-tsunami-alert-issued/2011/03/27/AFFFlvkB_story.html
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 06:12 PM
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1. Not again...
Those people have been through too much as it is. :cry:
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-11 12:20 AM
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12. That's what I say
The mainland area that felt the greatest intensity was Ishimaki (5- on the japanese scale there), which was one of the areas hardest hit by the tsunami. Those people up there have certainly been through enough.
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avaistheone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-11 12:34 AM
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13. K&r
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Sonicwall Donating Member (191 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 06:12 PM
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2. Tsunami height is reported at 0.5m
The surfers laugh at it.
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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 06:17 PM
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3. I doubt that the engineers at Fukushima are "laughing at it"... eom
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 06:27 PM
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4. ...nor those of us who went through Northridge, which was a mere piker at 5.7.
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 07:53 PM
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8. 6.7
http://www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/northreq.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2176.html

scared the holy crap out of me. i worked in a glass shop in Gardena and the floor was half a foot deep in busted glass.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 10:16 PM
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9. OMG you're right. How soon we forget. Of course at the time it felt
like an 8.0 but I was practically at the epicenter.
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border_town Donating Member (191 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 06:28 PM
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6. It's a different kind of wave.
A much stronger wave than the normal waves. Plus, these people have been through enough.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 11:35 PM
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11. The Japanese definition of "tsunami" is
"a sea wave having an extremely long wavelength that is generated by an earthquake, eruption of an undersea volcano, etc." It doesn't have to be huge.
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stockholmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 06:28 PM
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5. live High Def NHK link for coverage of quake and nuclear crisis (plutonium now confirmed in samples)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/r/movie/


hope this 6.5 is not a harbinger for a larger one
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veganlush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 07:39 PM
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7. excellent link, thank you for posting..n/t
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 11:09 PM
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10. Japan is just going to disappear
fall right into the ocean from all these quakes and tsunamis
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-11 01:52 PM
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14. When it rains, it pours. Poor Japan!
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PufPuf23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-11 02:28 PM
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15. Great Japan Quake Map
http://www.japanquakemap.com/

Another poster offered this link but I bookmarked and have been watching.

There have been over 800 earthquakes greater than 4 since March 11 in the region and at least 25 over 6 magnitude.

The local people must be extremely traumatized. So sad.
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