8.8 Magnitude Earthquake hit Japan

[exlude]

In other news...

The US sent relief efforts aboard the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma...oh, wait...

[mstng86]

here's a good tidbit:




Not an aftershock, not the expected big one. Completley unrelated.

That sounds so much more comforting.

[Strychnine]

here's a good tidbit:

Shizuoka quake not linked with Tohoku or Tokai

The Meteorological Agency has denied any link between the strong earthquake that struck central Japan on Tuesday night and Friday's massive quake in the country's northeast. It added that the latest earthquake was not related to a much-feared major quake expected to hit central Japan.

A senior agency official held a news conference at midnight on Wednesday, saying the focus of the latest earthquake was far from that of Friday's massive quake.

He said the latest earthquake did not occur within the anticipated area of the expected major quake in central Japan.

The official said the mechanism of the plate tectonics in Tuesday's earthquake was different from that of the expected major quake.

He said measurement devices around the anticipated zone of the possible major quake show no prominent change in the ground stress levels.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 02:29 +0900 (JST)

Not an aftershock, not the expected big one. Completley unrelated.

[Sgt Beavis]

Everyone is posting the immediate dangers of radiation poisoning.
Everyone isn't saying a word about the long term effects, like increased cancer rates and genetic birth defects for generations to come.

Stevo

Good point

[stevo]

Everyone is posting the immediate dangers of radiation poisoning.
Everyone isn't saying a word about the long term effects, like increased cancer rates and genetic birth defects for generations to come.

Stevo

[momo]

denny would rather slam into Uranus.

gdo bless.

chuckle.

[Denny]

LA Times said probably 6.5"

I'll be the first to call typo then. I've heard everything from 5-10mm, which is slightly more than the other big 'uns.

[SMKR]

for reference

[71chevellejohn]

And 6.5mm off its axis

LA Times said probably 6.5"

[SMKR]

[mstng86]

oh noes

Gdo bless us all.

[ELVIS]

Earthquakes move it all the time. It's just that the media has found a new scare tactic.

So we aren't going to spin off and ram into Mars? It would save us a ton of money on all these expensive NASA programs to study Mars.

denny would rather slam into Uranus.

gdo bless.

[mstng86]

Not real up to speed on Newtonian physics, eh?

It was a joke.

[Denny]

So we aren't going to spin off and ram into Mars? It would save us a ton of money on all these expensive NASA programs to study Mars.

Did you know our outer crust is also just floating on molten lava?

[46Tbird]

So if this quake combined with the Chile quake moved the earth off its axis, how many can the earth take before we start to have real issues?

Not real up to speed on Newtonian physics, eh?