6.9 - 7.2 Earthquake in Japan

[LikeLinus]

TSUNAMI WARNING ISSUED AFTER 6.9-MAGNITUDE QUAKE HITS OCEAN EAST OF JAPAN

News is still coming in. Check CNN or Abcnews.com


CNN: U.S. Geological Survey reports a 7.2-magnitude earthquake off Japan.


Yahoo: TOKYO - A strong quake shook northern Japan early Tuesday and Japan's Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings.

The magnitude 6.9 quake at 6:39 a.m. was centered off the coast of Sanriku in northern Japan, the agency said.

The agency said a tsunami could reach coastlines on Japan's Pacific Coast between 7:10 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. in Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Hokkaido, the agency said.

There were no immediate reports of injuries, according to national broadcaster NHK.

 

[RU482]

what a year

 

[LikeLinus]

No kidding. Mother Nature must be pissed.

 

[Remy XO]

*waiting for someone to come in and say disasters happen all the time, look at history*

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
No kidding. Mother Nature must be pissed.

She should be. We're taking all her blood, eh I mean oil. The core's fuel or our fuel?

 

[ElFenix]

random events seem to happen in bunches merely because your brain is the best pattern recognition device ever devised. in reality, the most likely time for a random event to happen after another random event is immediately.

 

[Pepsi90919]

disasters happen all the time, look at history.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
disasters happen all the time, look at history.

Gah!
I was going to say that!

 

[JinLien]

TSUNAMI BULLETIN

 

[Remy XO]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
random events seem to happen in bunches merely because your brain is the best pattern recognition device ever devised. in reality, the most likely time for a random event to happen after another random event is immediately.

So your point is that when random disasters happen, another random disaster follows immediately?

 

[TallBill]

good way to fight overpopulation..

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: TallBill
good way to fight overpopulation..

:thumbsup:

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: JinLien

TSUNAMI BULLETIN

EVALUATION

NO DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON
HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.

...

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

no links yet? i saw nothing on cnn and msnbc

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
no links yet? i saw nothing on cnn and msnbc

Learn to use the Interweb - CNN

MSNBC

 

[LikeLinus]

Wow - according to that MSNBC article:

"Japan is one of the world?s most earthquake-prone countries, with a tremor occurring at least every five minutes."

Thats insane!

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Remy XO

Originally posted by: ElFenix
random events seem to happen in bunches merely because your brain is the best pattern recognition device ever devised. in reality, the most likely time for a random event to happen after another random event is immediately.

So your point is that when random disasters happen, another random disaster follows immediately?

no, that the most likely time for the next disaster is immediately.

think about it this way: the average for major earthquakes may be 1 a year. but there are periods where several years pass without a major earthquake. for each year that there is no major earthquake, an additional one will most likely happen within a year of another. so, sometimes there are several major earthquakes in 1 year, but the average is still 1 per year.

 

[alien42]

looks like they got lucky with this one

 

[thelanx]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Remy XO

Originally posted by: ElFenix
random events seem to happen in bunches merely because your brain is the best pattern recognition device ever devised. in reality, the most likely time for a random event to happen after another random event is immediately.

So your point is that when random disasters happen, another random disaster follows immediately?

no, that the most likely time for the next disaster is immediately.

think about it this way: the average for major earthquakes may be 1 a year. but there are periods where several years pass without a major earthquake. for each year that there is no major earthquake, an additional one will most likely happen within a year of another. so, sometimes there are several major earthquakes in 1 year, but the average is still 1 per year.

If by random you mean the disasters occur independently of each other then any given moment has an equal chance of a disaster occuring.