Posted on 12/12/2021 12:47:39 PM PST by BusterDog
A rash of seismic activity across an arc of southern Japan in recent weeks – including the most powerful earthquake to strike Tokyo in a decade – has triggered renewed concern that a major natural disaster may be imminent, potentially the much-feared rupture of the Nankai Trough.
Experts and government agencies have called for calm and insist there are no signs of an impending disaster to rival the March 2011 magnitude-9 quake, a tremor that unleashed a towering tsunami and caused devastation across much of northeast Japan. The Great East Japan Earthquake caused nearly 20,000 deaths and the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
Underlining the ongoing instability in the region, a magnitude-5 tremor struck just off the coast of Fukushima at 2.29am on Wednesday, although officials were quick to confirm that it had not triggered another tsunami.
Attempts to play down the public’s fears have not been entirely successful, however, with the Asahi newspaper suggesting that “the frequency of tremors indicates that a megaquake could occur in the near future” and warning of “impending doom”.
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Can it take San Fran with it?
Not really funny man.
“Experts and government agencies have called for calm...”
People that get paid no matter what they say.
Let’s preposition Fauci and a warehouse full of masks in the danger zone.
Gojira awakens
I am looking at the USGS earthquake map and don’t see anything really unusual, seems like a scattering of mild quakes only and none close to Toyko.
“impending doom”
“IMPENDING DOOM!!!!!”
Never trust a US source.
Strong quake jolts Tokyo area
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/12/national/ibaraki-earthquake/
They have that to deal with; we got tornadoes and hurricanes to deal with.
There was another Level Four quake yesterday. It lasted about 15 seconds, which is pretty long for a quake like that. Had me a bit... concerned...
“IMPENDING DOOM!!!!!”
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There’s no slowing the DOOM roll . . . .
“There was another Level Four quake yesterday. It lasted about 15 seconds, which is pretty long for a quake like that. Had me a bit... concerned...”
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Are people talking about, “the big one?”
Well, Mito, Ibaraki is one of the main points of earthquakes in Japan. A 5 would be almost weekly there.
I still remember when we were both recovering from the 9.1 back in 2011.. (checking on fellow expats)..
We both know a 4 is really nothing in Japan.. maybe enough to wake you up.
Good to know you are still around and kicking the earthquakes butts ;^)
(Weren’t we talking about methods to detect earthquakes, like using coat hangers/water bottles?)
If the official narrative is to not worry, it’s well past time to be prepping for it.
We had a 6 down here in Kyushu on Dec. 9th .
The long series of quakes on the West end of the Juan de Fuca Plate (which pushes under the Cascadia Subduction Fault) was remarkable.
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