Second Quake in a Week
We had a pretty big earthquake in Japan
on the northern part of Honshu (the main island) about 45 min ago. It
was 6.9 up there, but probably about 4 or so in Tokyo where I am. A 4
is not big here, but this one shook for about a minute. Most small
quakes around here are about 15 seconds or so, but this one kept on
going. There were pre-warnings for this, and I saw many reports on
Twitter from friends all around Japan during and after. The NHK dudes
were on TV immediately, too.
Was enough to wake me up (but not my wife...) According to this it was actually a 2 around here:
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/2008-07-24-00-26.html
The whole richter vs shindo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency_seismic_intensity_scale) thing is interesting. I don't recall there being anything above shindo 4 around here in the last 7 years. A shindo 6 doesn't sound like any description of fun.
Posted by Jon Ellis on July 24, 2008 at 09:30 AM JST #
oh yeah - i felt this one too! made me wonder why CA and Japan are my two target markets as of late!
Posted by Chinarut on July 24, 2008 at 12:43 PM JST #
Yah, I get confused about scale they are using. It was the biggest one around here since I've been here (or the biggest one I have felt, anyway). It wasn't big so much as it was long. There was a 6 or so out in Nagano last year that did some damage to my wife's family's house and it knocked my father-in-law right off his feet. He was fine. :)
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