Posted on 07/11/2014 12:57:46 PM PDT by Zakeet
Moments ago, at 4:22am local time, a major 6.8 magnitude quake struck eastern Japan, off the Fukushima coast.
From the USGS:
So far there have been no reports of damage. Those curious can keep track of Fukushima in real time at the live webcast below:
Parts of it, like the edges of Kalifornia where all the liberals clutter can all take a dip in the ocean leaving the conservative inland intact.
Yep - depth has a lot to do with the effects....just yesterday we had a beentsie 3.2 about sixteen miles south of us, and it was maybe 2 or 3 miles deep — but it rumbled and then gave us a good thump.....something we don’t usually experience until the upper 4’s on the scale.
God help them.
History shows again and again how nature brings up the folly of man.
According to Fukushima prefectural govt, TEPCO says no new problems confirmed at Fukushima nuclear plant after this morning’s M6.8
Yeah, they wouldn’t lie.
I see what you did there... ;-)
Notably Fresno, home of the boss and our gracious, Patriotic host.
I’m still concerned about the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Runs offshore from Vancouver Island in Canada all the way to north-central Cali, where it hooks up with the San Andreas.
If THAT goes....most of the PNW is in a world of hurt. It’s the same type of fault as the 2011 Japan quake.
Yes, I watched it too. It was horrible seeing people driving and their vehicles being swept away.
Two smaller aftershocks at same location.
It was actually a 7.1, but the Clinton administration "downgraded" it because the law dictates that the Feds have to pick up the tab for all damages in an EQ of 7.0 or greater, and Slick had cronies that needed that taxpayer money more than us EQ victims did..
Only two earthquakes have really scared me and Northridge was one of them. Sylmar was the other.
Do these things ever pan out? I can only remember two tsunami in past 20 years or so, we had the one in Japan and then the one in that Sri Lanka type country that happened around Christmastime.
Chile has suffered several of them. But the human toll was minimal.
The summit of Mount Everest, for instance, "is formed of rocks made in a shallow sea."
That fact comes from "Darwin's Ghost" by Steve Jones, a comprehensive update of Darwin's famous work.
Me too I was on the fifth floor of the parkwest apartments across from lax 24 right northridge quake was a monster nothing good or fun with that one
I’m watching the Cascadia Subduction Zone too...
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