Posted on 07/23/2008 9:03:08 AM PDT by Scythian
Japan's weather agency says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off the northern Japanese coast.
The Meteorological Agency says there was no danger of a tsunami, or seismic waves, from the 12:26 a.m. Thursday (11:26 a.m. Wednesday EDT) quake, which occurred about 75 miles below the ocean's surface off the coast of Iwate in Japan's Eastern Honshu region.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Fortunately it was quite deep.
There's no earthquake/moon phase correlation, though people desperately seem to want to believe there is one.
There's a new or full moon twice every 28 days. If you start counting 3 days on either side of a new or full moon as "hits" then you're counting 12 days out of 28, or almost half the month.
I've been studying the correlations for about twenty years
with emails from USGS EIC.The tidal effect is clear.
Most occur then or after a new moon.
The Earth's fractured crust is pulled on by the moon and the sun. Sometimes the gravitational pulls work together and sometimes in opposition, and all that is in conjunction with the crust bulging out at the equator due to centrifugal force. All these conflicting forces work the fracture lines and play games with the tides. It takes a tide chart or computer program to know what the tides are going to be doing at any place at any time.
The link will soon be made to climate change [aka as global warming but the earth hasn’t been warming for 10 years.]
Pryers are up for the peple affected. I hope it is not too bad.
I lift them up to God and pray for the safety of all...
Yikes! Passing this on to my best friend.
His Japanese wife and his sons are on Honshu. They go there every summer to visit family when the boys are out of school.
quite a ways from Tokyo; until something actually hits there, these big quakes will unfortunately not be news.
I met Waverly Person from USGS EIC in Golden CO at a a Mensa meeting.I was then an MTS at Bell Labs in Denver.
The correlation intrigued me.
The tidal effect is clear
Quake ping!
Thank you for the ping, Ernest.
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Hotels note that bedsheets are scattered all over and twisted in knots during the full moon. People sleep restlessly.
Thanks for the ping. Any more news? This is the first I’ve heard of it.
No, I haven't had a chance to check yet, but I will take a look. IIRC, the overall area has been active since the 7.0 Honshu quake.
Thanks.
Has American in Tokyo weighed in yet? I pray he’s OK.
Now Dear Heart . . .
some folks . . . uhhhh . . . convictions . . .
on such matters are more . . . uhhhh
established . . . than the Rocky Mountains’ granite peaks.
I think there’s some granite peaks in CO, anyway! LOL.
In which case . . . influencing their convictions otherwise would take quite a string of successive nukes.
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