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Looks like Japan got hit by a pretty big Earthquake a few minutes ago.
- Thread starter Valcrist
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Everyone deals with things differently. I ain't mad at you, honestly.
https://twitter.com/Sora_Sakurai/status/1360595119838138381?s=20
Masahiro Sakurai felt it too, hopes everyone's safe.
Masahiro Sakurai felt it too, hopes everyone's safe.
My work phone and personal phone went off. Thought I felt the earthquake a few seconds before it went off.
This is a good example video as you can see their level of concern drastically increase as the earthquake gets worse
It's nighttime there so likely not till morning for a full accounting. But major things should be in a few hours. emergency services are going to be concerned with preventing fires, getting power back and saving lives if needed right now.
I have this huge, two-tiered Ikea desk that I've been meaning to move a few inches to the right but I couldn't possibly manage it on my own with the computer and everything on top of it. After things settled down here, I noticed that the earthquake did it for me--a good two inches. Unfortunate about the scrapes it put into the hardwood floor in the process, though...
Still getting aftershocks here, btw.
Still getting aftershocks here, btw.
Yeah I had a similar thing
Usually I don't even get out of bed but this time I jumped out and started rushing to get dressed
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Yikes, it still going off
No more than normal (I follow the USGAs quake site regularly)
That looks like a pretty normal aftershock profile. Does anyone know what type of quake this was? Slip strike, blind thrust, mega thrust (unlikely considering it relatively low magnitude) etc?
He's saying it made him feel uneasy (compared to typical tremors)
Oh ok.
Dont know much about earthquakes, so was starting to get worried if things were a bit out of place or just par the course.
I tend to overthink things...
I'm in LA, I know how it is... it doesn't seem like there will be too many casualties beyond property damage.
To me the scariest part is not knowing how long its gonna last and how long the building you are in can sustain that amount of impact for that amount of time
To me the scariest part is not knowing how long its gonna last and how long the building you are in can sustain that amount of impact for that amount of time
It's night time so a little longer but generally within an hour or so to start seeing stuff from social media. At least in my experience in Taiwan.
Earthquake prediction is notoriously impossible from what we know. Forecasting (which isn't the same as predicting) is a bit better as we can look at the geological record and use GPS to see accumulated stress.
Earthquakes really are some of if not the most powerful energy releases on earth (I think the 2004 and 2011 earthquakes release hundreds of times more energy than every nuke exploaded). They don't give a shit about anything we do on the surface even global events like climate change or asteroid strikes don't change or affect the tectonic plates
It took me a long time to realize that the camera was tipping over at the end. For some reason I thought the whole building fell over and that would have been incredibly dark.
Also if you live near a quake zone and are seeing all the stuff fall off shelves get some of this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002VA9NA?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
cheap and will hold things very well. also strap furniture to walls (especially near where you sleep and top heavy stuff). Most injuries and deaths in quakes aren't due to building collapse (this is very rare) but things flying or falling on people and fires post quake.
cheap and will hold things very well. also strap furniture to walls (especially near where you sleep and top heavy stuff). Most injuries and deaths in quakes aren't due to building collapse (this is very rare) but things flying or falling on people and fires post quake.
2021 upping the ante -_-
You are right about the aftershock, still, seeing the intensity rise just a little gives me anxiety.
My sister in law in Chiba Prefecture said her building was shaking pretty hard. But thankfully they're ok.
So much for the no chance of a tsunami. Dude had his own personal tsunami.
I hope everyone here is okay. I feel like if I lived in Japan, I wouldn't put anything valuable or heavy on shelves...
I say this as someone living in Vancouver, Canada, where there eventually will be an earthquake of consequence. But they are infrequent.
I say this as someone living in Vancouver, Canada, where there eventually will be an earthquake of consequence. But they are infrequent.
Yep, it's part of the ring of fire, the most seismically active zone in the world. It's got the most reported earthquakes in the world (though this is probably in part due to how robust its earthquake detection system is, some other countries on the ring of fire are thought to have more but be reported less I believe)
That said they also have the absolute best earthquake-proofed infrastructure in the world as another result of this, so if any country is prepared to deal with this stuff it's Japan
Hope no deaths, no serious damage to any homes. Stay safe Japan. Can't believe it's been a decade since 2011...
Out of curiosity, do the railroads and highways shut down to inspect the tracks/road or are they designed for withstanding earthquakes?
I know here in the USA, a bad earthquake would destroy our highways and railroads.
I know here in the USA, a bad earthquake would destroy our highways and railroads.
Some stuff felt from my library. For a 4.0 in Tokyo, it was scary
looking at the room, that cup noodle is probably a model kit.
looking at the room, that cup noodle is probably a model kit.
Watching the news right now and looks like several train lines are suspended at the moment, not sure about highways.
I mean you aren't going to want to be on them while the earthquake is on going, but out of necessity Japan has incredibly good infrastructure and protocol for dealing with earthquakes. An earthquake this big has happened a number of times in the past decade, it's not a particularly rare event in Japan
roads are designed for seismic risk. depending on where their located. Obviously there will still be damage because it's impossible to know how and where earthquakes will strike.
They send out crews typically based on reports. though power, water, gas are usually first to get fixed since they can cause flooding and fires. if they have the resources typically local police or government agencies can block highway entrances (typically for fear of collapse of overpasses due to aftershocks)
And specifically on railroads Japan and California both have warning systems which can stop trains before an earthquake strikes that area.
Let's hope that doesn't happen again for a very long time, I would say ever but that's not realistic. Tsunamis cause so much devastation it's horrifying to see.