Posted on 03/12/2011 6:23:38 AM PST by NYer
A massive tsunami sweeps in to engulf a residential area after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan March 11, 2011. The biggest earthquake to hit Japan in 140 years struck the northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-metre tsunami that swept away everything in its path, including houses, cars and farm buildings on fire.
Cars and destroyed homes swept by a tsunami are seen on a street after an earthquake in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture March 12, 2011. Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people.
The letters "SOS" are seen written on the ground at Minami Sanriku Elementary School, after an earthquake in Minami Sanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture March 12, 2011. Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people.
USGS Dr. Dave Applegate says the Japan earthquake ruptured a 180 mile long by 50 mile wide section of the Earth's crust.
Scientists from the United States Geological Service answered questions from the public this afternoon, with some startling revelations made.
* The first tsunami wave in Samoa was reportedly one foot tall, but the seventh wave was much larger, indicating coastal areas shoudl remain on tsunami advisory well after the first wave hits, even if that wave appears small.
* 100+ aftershocks have rated 5.0 magnitude or more in Japan since the initial shake.
* Earth's axis has reportedly shifted ten inches as a result of the quake, and Japan's coast is said to have permanently shifted 2.4 metres.
* The quake was 900 times stronger than the quake that hammered San Francisco in 1989.
* Aftershocks from the Peru earthquake of almost a year ago are still felt to this day.
* Honshu earthquake occurred on ocean floor of the Pacific plate, bumping 250 miles of coastline.
* Shaking was felt as far away as China.
* The Honshu quake was not as large as the 1964 Alaska earthquake, but was comparable to the recent Chile earthquake.
* Tsunami waves that hit California earlier today washed three onlookers out to sea. Two have been recovered.
* St Louis, Missouri media outlets report that city has moved an inch as a result of the quake.
* Waves from the ensuing tsunami reached 32 feet high.
Dang. I need to update all my GPS waypoints now.
If you were to lay down and look up at the Moon from a picnic table, YOU would have been altered by 3 feet or so. Do you think that would change the way you see the Moon? The 10 inches that's being discussed is nothing. Earth is quite large, and space is a damn big place. :p
So, a prediction that fails to match with events, a prediction worldwide in nature and not specific to anywhere, is not discounted?
You can’t be exact when it comes to Mother Nature.
So Nolle's eight day window covering the entire planet fails, and the excuse is you can't exactly predict something?
Just curious, did the seismologists predict there would be a major event in March before the rumblings showed up on their machines?
A one in one hundred chance that the 7.2 earthquake on March 9th off the Honshu region would be a precursor to a much larger event within 72 hours of the initial event. A seismic hazard map published 12 years ago identifying the Honshu region as having a ten percent chance of experiencing nearly 4 destructive earthquake events over a fifty year timespan. A tsunami hazard map identifying the Honshu region as being particularly susceptible to tsunamis, and historical records indicating that massive tsunamis have occurred in the region in the past.
So, the seismologists identified a hundred mile region where a major seismic event could happen within a 72 hour period, as well as previously published cautions about tsunami dangers in the area. A specific area, a specific time frame, where you've already granted that mother nature is difficult to predict, and supposedly a generalized warning for the entire world that ended two days before the 7.2 and four days before the 8.9 is somehow more accurate?
I would say Nolle gave a better warning than the seismologists.
And I'd have to say that his predictions are worthless ramblings of an astrologist.
I imagine if there was an axial shift, it would also affect the precession of the equinoxes. Spring may be a little late (a few thousand years from now).
Not ten inches - rather: only ten centimeters (approx. 4 inches).
Reports from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy estimated the 8.9-magnitude quake shifted the planet on its axis by nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters).
I guess one should be grateful they didn't make ten "feet" out of that!
Regards,
I wonder what the crops were.
Rosey.......Excellant video of Tusammi as it first hit... and toward the end another huge one comming into shore....I watched this as it was happening....terrible sense of helplessness for any who viewed as it happened.
Noteworthy were the drivers on the roads trying to escape and those who were driving toward it not knowing.
Well, KoRn, excuse me. There is no need to put us who ask questions down. I asked a honest question and wanted a honest answer. Wonder if you ask a question, do you get a tongue stuck out at you because you asked the question? The way I find out is through asking questions. Get over yourself!
You can give it credit or you can’t not give it credit.
I don’t care.
The reality is the night of March 8th there are posts on the internet talking about a quake in Japan. One day outside of the window talked about by Nolle.
I am not going to discount his theory. You can. I don’t care.
Why wasn’t Japan ready for this if they had the warning?????
Didn’t intend to sound like a smart ass. :p
(the wife says it comes natural)
Short answer: No one's ever found anything that stands up to examination.
The data's out there - you could easily compare daily sunspot activity to the number of M5+ earthquakes reported on a daily basis, or even a monthly basis, and see if you can find a correlation in the data. It's been done, been discounted, and done again. When charted out, major seismic events are extremely random.
Thinking about it, here would be my plan if you wanted to examine to see if there was at least a correlation between sunspot (or lunar) activity and earthquakes... The two Christchurch earthquake events are extremely well detailed online, with aftershock listings laid out nicely - I'd pull those datasets and then pull the lunar or solar activity charts, and compare the two. An active aftershock region should demonstrate more clearly any actual causal connection. Pretty sure it'd come up blank too, but hey, if anything would show it, an already active and disrupted region should.
I thought the same thing. Someone please provide a link.
Women and Minorities Hardest Hit
What’s been the talk on the New Madrid fault?
In other news, the city of St. Louis is now the sixth borough of New York City...
"There is no Izvestiya in Pravda, and there is Pravda in Izvestiya."
That should be
“There is no Izvestiya in Pravda, and there is NO Pravda in Izvestiya.”
Are you talking about the New Madrid Fault area not being ‘eathquake country”?
Damn it!
Will my Garmin still navigate?
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