Posted on 04/15/2016 9:38:52 AM PDT by rdl6989
The quake was only 10km deep.
(Excerpt) Read more at jma.go.jp ...
Thanks for the update. I can’t even imagine what this will look like when the sun comes up.
Seems like Japan has this big “Hit Me” sign on them.
Prayers up.
One thing about the Japanese, they don’t sit around and whine about the government not doing enough. They pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and get right down to rebuilding.
I remember “earthquake weather” before the Whittier quake in ‘87. My roommate in college, a SoCal native, said something about the weather being strange the night before. Next morning, the quake came.
Yesterday at another FR site I expressed the concern that Thursday’s 6.4 quake might just be a foreshock.
It’s not often that I hate when I am right. I am listening to Japan news. They called the Thursday quake a 6.4, and this one a 7.3. So far only 3 deaths, but I expect many more, and 470 at hospitals with broken bones and other injuries. They keep repeating the same short information of about 3 minutes with the same photos over and over. I suspect that means they are having a really hard time getting their photographers and news crews out and back to the studio. Now they have showed views of roads destroyed by landslides and report bridge damage. Rescues being attempted in collapsed apartments and houses. The nuclear plant nearby is OK for now.
I have written here more than once about my observation of what may be a 90 year earth cycle over the past few centuries. It seems to have about 30 years beginning and ending with a major volcanic eruption, and serious earthquakes within the cycle. We are at the end of the most recent 30 years, but so far no major eruption like Tambora or Katmai. Lots of big earthquakes however. After the action cycle, then things become quieter for around 60 years. Hope to be wrong about the volcano. Another person commenting hear wrote about Sakarujima, a volcano on the edge of a 15 mile diameter caldera which blew about 22,000 years ago. Looking at world temperature charts shows a noticeable temperature drop at 22,000 kya.
The live news stream is riveting, even without understanding what they are saying. They are concentrating at what looks like might be a college or something like that on a flat mesa. One of the two story buildings seems to have collapsed on itself (like Northridge) as the rescuers are accessing it with short ladders to what was maybe a second floor balcony.
The surrounding scenery is spectacular with roads cut by landslides and one major slide that has obliterated roads and houses.
http://www.volcanocafe.org/a-wedge-of-worry-aso-caldera-ndvp-4/
That’s a good article about the Aso complex.
Another link with English translation. The location mentioned above has college students and the second floor collapsed into the first with six still trapped.
Another link with English translation. The location mentioned above has college students and the second floor collapsed into the first with six still trapped.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/
NO I am from SO CAL LOL! I hear they have tsumari wave warning
Yikes! Taking a look at the article and the USGS earthquake map, the city is right on top of that area and all 24 magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes the past couple of days have been right underneath them!
Read the comments under that article.
All the big quakes are under the volcano.
take a look at #94.
Weather Mizumoto is tweeting Mt. Aso experiencing a minor eruption.
Yeah, the video feed in the earlier post showed that from a helicopter.
Doesn’t look like much though. Although the big ones usually start off innocent looking enough.
Weather Mizumoto just posted two more. One 5.4. Not on USGS map yet.
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