Posted on 04/07/2011 7:55:54 AM PDT by Kartographer
Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 7.4 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes) Date-Time Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 14:32:00 UTC Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 11:32:00 PM at epicenter
Location 38.200°N, 142.000°E Depth 40 km (24.9 miles) set by location program Region NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN Distances 98 km (61 miles) E (93°) from Sendai, Honshu, Japan 144 km (90 miles) ENE (68°) from Fukushima, Honshu, Japan 159 km (99 miles) NE (37°) from Iwaki, Honshu, Japan 345 km (215 miles) NE (35°) from TOKYO, Japan
(Excerpt) Read more at earthquake.usgs.gov ...
Breaking now on Fox and Drudge
Pray for the people of Japan and our military there.
Latest Event
- Tsunami Information Statement (high)
2011/04/07 14:32:00 (UTC)
Preliminary Magnitude: 7.4
Latitude: 38.2 Longitude: 142.0
Location: near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
ljadqj 1
usgs has 2 earthquakes.
G-d help these poor people, they’ve been through so much!
Looks like they had two 7.4 mag. quakes back to back.
7.4 2011/04/07 14:32:41 38.253 141.640 25.6 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
7.4 2011/04/07 14:32:00 38.200 142.000 40.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40_eqs.php
Nearly as shallow as the big one in March. That can’t be good.
Separated by 41 seconds. I guess that’ll clarify soon.
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