Posted on 03/11/2011 5:21:01 PM PST by SE Mom
Edited on 03/11/2011 5:49:38 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
0107: Reaction just in from flight attendant Mark Richardson, who was on the sixth floor of Narita Airport when the quake struck: "It was absolutely terrifying, computers were flying off the office tables and it seemed to go on for ever," he says. "Now watching the footage of this quake on TV, I count myself very lucky. Aftershocks are still rattling our nerves every half an hour or so and my house looks like it has been raided by burglars."
Just upgraded to 9.1
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
link to a list of the very numerous and quite large aftershocks still going on.
I am going through certain trials that have been weighing on me. I can’t imagine what those people are going through. I am embarrassed to say I have been worrying about my business.
Its true how a different perspective changes a point of view. We can be thankful we arent enduring something like that, but our own problems are just as real, even if our lives arent in danger.
Listen, I moaned and groaned about 5 inches of snow this morning.
A “slight” inconvenience.
I felt like a fool when I turned on the News...
Thank you for the link.
I see they found the ship that was washed out to sea, still afloat with everyone OK.
Today I had a democrat say to me “well if we keep drilling oil and creating a void under the earth that’s what happens”. Geez
It’s hard isn’t it? Gaining perspective can be so helpful. It doesn’t change our own challenges- but it does maybe make them less difficult to bear..
Meanwhile- from the link I posted- forgot to post the story with it:
The Japan earthquake was the fourth most powerful ever recorded with a magnitude of 9.1, twice more powerful than the initial estimate of 8.9, Gerard Fryer, geophysicist of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, said this morning.
Three others that were more powerful since the late 1800s when seismometers started measuring ground motions were in 9.5 in Chile in 1960, 9.2 in Alaska in 1964 and 9.1 in Sumatra in 2004, according to Fryer.
The new magnitude was adjusted based on the impact of the quake throughout the Pacific, he said. “It fits all measurements, including in Hawaii,” Fryer said.
The U.S. Geological Survey estimate of the quake’s magnitude is still 8.9.
It is not uncommon for scientists to estimate different magnitudes immediately after an earthquake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJzdtzl6KY&feature=player_embedded
That others have tragedy doesn't invalidate of what you are going through. I’m very sorry you have to deal with whatever it is that is affecting your business. It's so hard sometimes to find a place in life that has some stability. Obviously a lot of people in Japan lost their stability today, if not their lives, but your life and your issues are important as well. Good luck to you.
Ties for #3.
1. Chile 1960 05 22 9.5 -38.29 -73.05 Kanamori, 1977
2. Prince William Sound, Alaska 1964 03 28 9.2 61.02 -147.65 Kanamori, 1977
3. Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra 2004 12 26 9.1 3.30 95.78 Park et al., 2005
Thanks for the thread.
Take some time to pray for the people of Japan. The magnitude of the quake and the resulting tsunami could have more dire consequences than we know. in the days that follow more reports of heartrending findings that will come to the forefront. the continuing afterschocks are wearing on the people.
Irrespective of what the Tsunami warning does, the article says the U.S. Geological Survey estimate of the quake’s magnitude remains 8.9.
> I am embarrassed to say I have been worrying about my business.
We love all of Gods children.
We pray for all of Gods children.
We do our best to help His children as we are able.
If we are not good stewards of what God has blessed us with, we cannot help others in their time of need.
Take care of what you have first, so that the Lord can bless others though you.
Just Dam! That building had to be swaying at least 20 feet side to side up there!
Forgot to ping you to thread- long day..
Here’s some startling new information:
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110311D11JFA11.htm
TOKYO (Nikkei)—The major earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on Friday had the hallmarks of an interplate quake, which occurs at the boundary between two tectonic plates.
At the area near the epicenter, the North American plate, on which part of the Japanese archipelago lies, slips under the Pacific plate. The temblor was likely triggered when the North American plate snapped upward, releasing the accumulated strain.
The earthquake occurred near the site of another tremor that shook Miyagi Prefecture on Wednesday, so the earlier quake may have been a foreshock, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
“There aren’t many instances in which such a large earthquake occurs right after a magnitude 7-class quake,” said an official at the agency. “This is a highly unusual case.”
The agency warns that aftershocks registering around magnitude 7 could take place over the next month.
Major quakes have occurred off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture about every 40 years, the previous being a magnitude 7.4 temblor in 1978. Government experts had expected that one registering between 7.5 and 8 would hit, but the latest packed a wallop of magnitude 8.8.
The plate may have shifted over a stretch of several hundred kilometers along the fault on Friday, according to the agency, with some experts putting the figure at upwards of 400-500km.
“In last year’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile, the fault is said to have moved over a span of about 800km, so the latest quake may be similar,” said Kyoto University Professor Manabu Hashimoto.
Friday’s interplate earthquake is different from the Great Hanshin Earthquake that rocked the Kobe area in 1995, which was an intraplate quake.
(The Nikkei March 12 morning edition)
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