Posted on 03/10/2011 10:40:37 PM PST by TaraP
Be safe! you are all in our prayers!
I’m watching the news coverage and getting aggravated (again) that the TV news producers insist on filling 1/3 of the screen with their banners & headlines.
If they must do that, please put the junk at the TOP of the screen so we can see what is happening. Otherwise, tell their cameramen to aim lower. The sky just doesn’t change that much folks!
6.4 aftershocks, two of them
Really getting wild over there:
Update time = Fri Mar 11 6:47:01 UTC 2011
MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 7.1 2011/03/11 06:25:51 38.074 144.559 26.5 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.2 2011/03/11 06:18:04 19.350 -154.991 9.5 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 6.8 2011/03/11 06:15:46 36.126 140.234 30.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 6.4 2011/03/11 06:07:22 36.401 141.862 35.4 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 6.4 2011/03/11 06:06:11 39.025 142.316 25.1 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 8.8 2011/03/11 05:46:24 38.322 142.369 24.4 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.4 2011/03/11 04:51:25 35.349 -118.564 8.6 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
How long did it shake for where you were? Sometimes that’s difficult to personally gauge — EQs often seem to last longer than they actually are. Glad to hear you’re ok.
From Spaceweather..
CME IMPACT: A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth’s magnetic field on March 10th around 0630 UT. The impact, albeit weak, did provoke geomagnetic activity around the poles. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras.
impact images: from Zoltan Kenwell near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; from Warren Gammel of Fairbanks, Alaska; from Joseph Shaw of Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska; from William Helms of Fairbanks, Alaska;
X-FLARE: March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare.
Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166 around 2323 UT. A movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a bright flash of UV radiation plus some material being hurled away from the blast site:
I lived in Richmond, CA in '89 (SF Bay Area) and then had moved to Yorba Linda in '94 and remember both like they were yesturday, I can not imagine either of those quakes being worse, but an 8.8...My God!!! Plus a 13 foot Tsunami to boot!
Reasons #112 & 113 of why I moved to Texas.
(post below from another board...could this be true? Anyone heard this?)
Is the berkley guy saying the west coast and alaska need to be evacuated? Is he saying that it will take 5 hours for it to get to the west coast..
If you can, can you give us a description of what happened in your living quarters, what is broken, moved, etc.
Yes, but can we hope for California instead?
G-d bless the affected.
LOL! Thanks. I knew it was some American held island in the Pacific.
I think the warning right now is only for Hawaii...
Not the West Coast yet...
I have been here 13 years and this is the only one that rattled me.. It was BIG.
I am ok.. anything not bolted down is all of the place.. my monitor fell of my desk.. (mouse too).
I hope that it is finished... but in the last week, we have had an unusual amount of earthquakes.. It may have been building up to the one today.
Quite fun actually. In my new massive tower office,it shook and we all put on our silly white helmets. Our bldg sways, so that took away much of the effect, but still, the lights were swinging a bit.
We only had a row of short filing cabinets tip over.
The 2nd earthquake, about 20 minutes later, was also fun. We are still having light aftershocks just an hour after the main one.
Sendai is the closest major city to the epicenter and the tsunami that resulted hit a few coastal areas.
Ties number 5 and 6 since 1900, Ecuador and Chile.
It just started again..
To: U.S. West Coast, Alaska, and British Columbia coastal regions
From: NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
Subject: Tsunami Information Statement #1 issued 03/10/2011 at 9:58PM PST
This is a Tsunami Information Statement for California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. NO tsunami warning, watch or advisory is in effect for these areas.
Earthquakes of this size are known to generate tsunamis potentially dangerouse to coasts outside the source region. The West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center is investigating the event to determine the level of danger. More information will be issued as it becomes available.
At 9:46 PM Pacific Standard Time on March 10, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 7.9 occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan . (Refer to the United States Geological Survey for official earthquake parameters.)
Pacific coastal regions outside California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska should refer to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center messages for information on the event.
Messages will be issued hourly by the WCATWC until the event status is upgraded to a warning or advisory, or until the center has determined that the event poses no threat to the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska coasts. See the WCATWC web site for basic tsunami information, safety rules, and a tsunami travel time map and table. (NOTE: Travel time maps and tables indicate forecasted times only, not that a wave dangerous to the U.S. and Canadian coasts was generated
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
844 PM HST THU MAR 10 2011
TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WATCH SUPPLEMENT
A TSUNAMI WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 0746 PM HST 10 MAR 2011
COORDINATES - 38.2 NORTH 142.5 EAST
LOCATION - NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN
MAGNITUDE - 8.8 MOMENT
MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY
GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER
DART 21418 38.7N 148.7E 0619Z 1.08M / 3.5FT 06MIN
LAT - LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)
LON - LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)
TIME - TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME)
AMPL - TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.
IT IS ...NOT... CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.
VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).
PER - PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.
NOTE - DART MEASUREMENTS ARE FROM THE DEEP OCEAN AND THEY
ARE GENERALLY MUCH SMALLER THAN WOULD BE COASTAL
MEASUREMENTS AT SIMILAR LOCATIONS.
EVALUATION
BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A TSUNAMI MAY HAVE BEEN GENERATED BY
THIS EARTHQUAKE THAT COULD BE DESTRUCTIVE ON COASTAL AREAS EVEN
FAR FROM THE EPICENTER. AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY TO DETERMINE
IF THERE IS A TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.
IF TSUNAMI WAVES IMPACT HAWAII THE ESTIMATED EARLIEST ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS 0259 AM HST FRI 11 MAR 2011
Still shaking?
God help Japan!
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