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8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

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zerocool84 said:
Crap

My brother lives in Japan.

A Tsunami hit northern Japan.

I keep calling my brother's cellphone and nothing. Hope he's ok.
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They're saying the cell service through most of japan is toast because everybody tried calling and their network couldn't handle it and went poof 🙁
 
Nik said:
They're saying the cell service through most of japan is toast because everybody tried calling and their network couldn't handle it and went poof 🙁
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Yeah not surprising. Same would happen here when/if we have a large one.
 
BoomerD said:
I don't think it's the plates that are affected as much as the magma underneath the plates.
It's a thick viscous liquid, and I believe the movement in one place affects it in other places.

Of course, I'm not a vulcanologist, geologist, or smart guy in any way...😛

(but it just makes sense)
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Actually they don't mean effects over large distances like an ocean as nkgreen was speculating on. They mean an earthquake along one fault can effect the chances of one happening along another fault in the same fault system. So for example an earthquake in southern California might latter trigger an earthquake in northern California some months latter because all the faults in California can be thought of as being linked in some way or another. They never used to think this way.
 
zerocool84 said:
Crap

My brother lives in Japan.

A Tsunami hit northern Japan.

I keep calling my brother's cellphone and nothing. Hope he's ok.
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Phones are likely out and/or swamped at the moment. Japan is a modern industrialized country with extremely good building codes and emergency services. I'm sure he's fine. Earthquakes are really only truly horrific in unprepared places (think Hati in 2010 versus LA in 1994).
 
So said:
Phones are likely out and/or swamped at the moment. Japan is a modern industrialized country with extremely good building codes and emergency services. I'm sure he's fine. Earthquakes are really only truly horrific in unprepared places (think Hati in 2010 versus LA in 1994).
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I'm sure his brother is fine as well however the induced Tsunami though is different from the earthquake itself. Remember the Indian Ocean tsunami killed something like 250,000 people over a very large area, MUCH larger than the earthquake itself effected.
 
Holy crap.

The Japanese are well prepared for this kind of stuff, but I'm not sure what kind of preparation you can make for an 8.9. The two bright sides at this point are that it hit off the coast instead of on land, and that since it was 20 miles down the energy release was mitigated some.

The results are still going to be bad near the coasts, I fear.

PS For the last time, the Richter Scale is logarithmic. For every whole point increase in scale, the severity of the earthquake is 10 times worse.
 
Keep in mind, a lot of the country is without electricity because they've shut down the nuclear power plants...

Here's a "tsunami travel time" map:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/01/ttvulhvpd9-01.jpg

ttvulhvpd9-01.jpg
 
BoomerD said:
Keep in mind, a lot of the country is without electricity because they've shut down the nuclear power plants...

Here's a "tsunami travel time" map:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/01/ttvulhvpd9-01.jpg

ttvulhvpd9-01.jpg
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Note that while tsunami warnings have been posted for Hawaii, they have not been posted for the US west coast or Alaska. All the time charts are automatic predictions of when a potential tsunami would hit based on origin and final location.

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/
 
Wonder what the death toll is going to be. Much lower than in poor countries no doubt but looking at the amazing footage of that tsunami it's hard to imagine many people surviving being in the path of that thing. Most if not all the deaths are going to be a result of the tsunami and not the initial earth quake.
 
ViRGE said:
Holy crap.

The Japanese are well prepared for this kind of stuff, but I'm not sure what kind of preparation you can make for an 8.9. The two bright sides at this point are that it hit off the coast instead of on land, and that since it was 20 miles down the energy release was mitigated some.

The results are still going to be bad near the coasts, I fear.

PS For the last time, the Richter Scale is logarithmic. For every whole point increase in scale, the severity of the earthquake is 10 times worse.
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Another thing that is lucky is that it didn't hit really close to Tokyo or another major city. Though it still did a huge amount of damage.
 
Locut0s said:
Wonder what the death toll is going to be. Much lower than in poor countries no doubt but looking at the amazing footage of that tsunami it's hard to imagine many people surviving being in the path of that thing. Most if not all the deaths are going to be a result of the tsunami and not the initial earth quake.
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Yep, if you watch the footage closely you can actually see fleeing cars get caught by the wave 🙁
 
Locut0s said:
Wonder what the death toll is going to be. Much lower than in poor countries no doubt but looking at the amazing footage of that tsunami it's hard to imagine many people surviving being in the path of that thing. Most if not all the deaths are going to be a result of the tsunami and not the initial earth quake.
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Yeah. Just from the footage it seems that the tsunami hit mostly rural/small town areas. Could have been much worse.
 
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