"A 20-inch tsunami! Aieeeeeeeee. Free for your rives!"
Posted on 08/15/2005 8:06:30 PM PDT by dennis1x
"A 20-inch tsunami! Aieeeeeeeee. Free for your rives!"
Magnitude revised to 7.2
The Japanese have smaller tsunami's.
Ruh Roh!
LOL!
OMG that Little person wrestling you see on Channel 34 which is Spanish station here in SO CAL
Really Now?
Thanks for typing all that up for us.
What I don't know about earthquakes could fill a book.
Yes, by USGS
Yowsers!! Our daughter and I just returned last week from a two week trip to Tokyo! While we were there, there were a couple of light earthquakes. It was a very strange feeling! The friends with whom we stayed live pretty far from Tokyo Bay or any other body of water, so they won't have any problems from any tsunami. They also live in a house, far away from any tall buildings, so that won't be a worry either.
Just saw it ,Thanks
Usually yes but not by much. The machines are very good these days.
TOKYO : A powerful earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale shook Japan on Tuesday, reportedly injuring a number of people and swaying buildings in the heart of Tokyo.
Bullet trains, a nuclear power plant and elevators were automatically shut down as a precaution after the quake hit at 11:46 am (0246 GMT) off the Pacific coastline of Miyagi prefecture, 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of Tokyo.
The meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert, predicting seismic waves of 50 centimetres (20 inches).
Officials said they were still gathering information on casualties, but Kyodo News said many people were reported to be injured.
The quake was the same magnitude as one in October last year in central Niigata prefecture that killed 40 people. That was the strongest earthquake in quake-prone Japan in a decade.
"I was on the second floor and felt as if I was suddenly tossed up. Then there was a long, sickening spell of horizontal shakes," said Wakako Suzuki, 31, who lives in Miyagi prefecture.
"My first-aid kit fell from the closet and neighbours rushed out of their houses. Mother went to the cemetery to check if our family gravestone was all right," Suzuki told AFP by telephone.
The quake was felt strongly in the heart of Tokyo, automatically shutting down elevators and swaying high-rise buildings.
Misao Hoshi, an elderly woman in southern Miyagi, said she was eating lunch when the earth began shaking but the quake had caused no major damage at her home.
"After we heard there was a tsunami alert, we went outside to see our well. If there is really going to be a tsunami, the surface level usually goes up. But it was the same as usual.
"A few dishes fell from our kitchen shelves. But that was it. We are again eating lunch," she said.
Japan is home to 20 percent of the world's major earthquakes and is always bracing for the dreaded "Big One" predicted to hit in the future.
Last month thousands of volunteers and rescue workers took part in one of Japan's largest-ever tsunami drills, anxious to prevent a repeat of the devastation seen in December's Indian Ocean catastrophe.
- AFP /ct
It was 50 miles offshore and 30 miles deep; it would be a major disaster directly under a city, but isn't at those distances.
Other thing to note is like most large quakes, it wasn't particularly near a new or full moon. Problem is the moon-obsessives only note the quakes that are on or very near new or full moons :-)
Thank you, I appreciate the info. Prayers for the injured and the lost.
Pshhhhh...I've made ceramic monkeys TWICE that size....
Thanks for the info. I didn't know that. So the Dec 26 quake was the third greatest quake ever scientifically recorded? All three quakes you mentioned happened in a 45 years time span, which is a fraction of geologic time.
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