Posted on 04/15/2016 9:38:52 AM PDT by rdl6989
The quake was only 10km deep.
(Excerpt) Read more at jma.go.jp ...
Or Free Republics founder or the servers or me
7.1 magnitude - At that shallow a depth could we be looking at magma movements which may reactivate the nearby volcano?
I was going to open a chapter of The Optimist Club, but I couldn’t find a hall big enough to hold it in.
Thanks for the ping!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/
5.7
2km NW of Ozu, Japan
2016-04-15 16:45:56 UTC10.0 km deep
5.8
2km ENE of Uto, Japan
2016-04-15 16:44:06 UTC10.0 km deep
7.0
1km WSW of Kumamoto-shi, Japan
2016-04-15 16:25:06 UTC10.0 km deep
Absolutely!!
Plus I have nine first cousin over there.
Thanks rdl6989.
For further clarification, this is a separate event in the same area as yesterday. There was some confusion about this earlier.
I was a college student in L.A. in the mid to late 1970’s.
A college professor, who was also a priest, mentioned the stretch of cloudy weather we were having at the time.
His grandmother was from San Francisco, and he said, “My grandmother used to call this ‘earthquake weather.’”
“Get reaaaaady to rummmmbllllle!”
You missed the bigger early 70s one as well which was bigger than that and has strange weather.
Remember the quake of 2016, when all the people in California surfed to Denver? /robinwilliams
There has been two significant quakes, the one yesterday which was a 6.4 which you linked to, and the 7.1 today which this post is about. The injuries and dead you heard about last night do not include those who have been injured or killed in today’s quake.
I was in Alaska a few years ago on transportation that was 200 miles inland following this damp looking river.
All of a sudden in 30 degree silt in body suits lying on surfboards I see a wave coming.
It was the tide coming in and those surfers can easily ride the wave for three hours before the whole thing stops.
Very rare to see I hear and looked like some movie scene out of Escape from Los Angeles.
Seven people were in those body suits riding tides like waves.
Wow, that would freak me out a bit.
Well people die in the silt weekly in Alaska.
Takes this $60,000 machine to extract you and if others try to extract you the die with you.
I went to Anchorage in a ship that floated in on 50 feet of water. Tide left and the ocean liner called the Amsterdam of Holland America was just sitting on top of the silt.
It’s props are up the side, so no damage to the boat.
People use surfboards lto somehow disperse themselves over the silt to gain position, but get a leg in the silt and three hours later you die of drowning with the tide.
So that was a rare sight of what some would call stupidest surfing the tide. Others call them adventure seekers, or maybe just stoned out of their minds.
Weather Mizumoto’s twitter feed has JMA upgrading magnitude from 7.1 to 7.3. Getting close to sunrise.
There are two very active volcanoes on the island of Kyushu: Mt. Aso almost in the center of the island and Sakurajima across Kagoshima Bay from the city of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu. These earthquakes could mean either Mt. Aso or Sakurajima could be on the verge of a very active eruption phase, and very large eruptions are common along the Ring of Fire, which the Japanese home islands are part of.
Prayers for them.
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