Posted on 07/23/2008 9:03:08 AM PDT by Scythian
Edited on 07/23/2008 2:26:29 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Japan's weather agency says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off the northern Japanese coast.
The Meteorological Agency says there was no danger of a tsunami, or seismic waves, from the 12:26 a.m. Thursday (11:26 a.m. Wednesday EDT) quake, which occurred about 75 miles below the ocean's surface off the coast of Iwate in Japan's Eastern Honshu region.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
bump...
prayers up and bttt
Prayers up!
Well, that’ll shake things up.
Prayers for Japan. Morioka is a beautiful town, nice people, very traditional. In a previous life, I lived for several months in Ichinoseki, midway between Morioka and Sendai, the next prefectural capital to the south.
TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION
THIS STATEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. NO ACTION REQUIRED.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 0526 AM HST 23 JUL 2008
COORDINATES - 39.7 NORTH 141.7 EAST
LOCATION - EASTERN HONSHU JAPAN
MAGNITUDE - 6.8 MOMENT
EVALUATION
BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS
NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. A
DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
This is like the third 6+ in the last week. Wasn’t there a 7+ in Northern Japan last month too?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.php
It is about three days after a full moon.Most occur then or after a new moon.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia
Thanks for the link! I'll check it out when I get back.
Btw, your little girl is adorable. :o)
Thank you!!
The resources here at FR are incredible, got to be one of the best informed sites I’ve ever been to.
Starting a pool on how long it takes the Goremeister, or one of his minions, to claim Global warming caused it.
Fortunately it was quite deep.
Fortunately it was quite deep.
There's no earthquake/moon phase correlation, though people desperately seem to want to believe there is one.
There's a new or full moon twice every 28 days. If you start counting 3 days on either side of a new or full moon as "hits" then you're counting 12 days out of 28, or almost half the month.
I've been studying the correlations for about twenty years
with emails from USGS EIC.The tidal effect is clear.
Most occur then or after a new moon.
The Earth's fractured crust is pulled on by the moon and the sun. Sometimes the gravitational pulls work together and sometimes in opposition, and all that is in conjunction with the crust bulging out at the equator due to centrifugal force. All these conflicting forces work the fracture lines and play games with the tides. It takes a tide chart or computer program to know what the tides are going to be doing at any place at any time.
The link will soon be made to climate change [aka as global warming but the earth hasn’t been warming for 10 years.]
Pryers are up for the peple affected. I hope it is not too bad.
I lift them up to God and pray for the safety of all...
Yikes! Passing this on to my best friend.
His Japanese wife and his sons are on Honshu. They go there every summer to visit family when the boys are out of school.
quite a ways from Tokyo; until something actually hits there, these big quakes will unfortunately not be news.
I met Waverly Person from USGS EIC in Golden CO at a a Mensa meeting.I was then an MTS at Bell Labs in Denver.
The correlation intrigued me.
The tidal effect is clear
Quake ping!
Thank you for the ping, Ernest.
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Hotels note that bedsheets are scattered all over and twisted in knots during the full moon. People sleep restlessly.
Thanks for the ping. Any more news? This is the first I’ve heard of it.
No, I haven't had a chance to check yet, but I will take a look. IIRC, the overall area has been active since the 7.0 Honshu quake.
Thanks.
Has American in Tokyo weighed in yet? I pray he’s OK.
Now Dear Heart . . .
some folks . . . uhhhh . . . convictions . . .
on such matters are more . . . uhhhh
established . . . than the Rocky Mountains’ granite peaks.
I think there’s some granite peaks in CO, anyway! LOL.
In which case . . . influencing their convictions otherwise would take quite a string of successive nukes.
Some think science is someone's opinion.
Prayers for safety to all the people in Japan and neighboring islands. I hope the ships are properly tethered to the piers.
From United States Geological Survey
The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
An earthquake occurred about 25 km (15 miles) east-northeast of Morioka at 9:26 AM MDT, Jul 23, 2008 (Jul 24 at 12:26 AM local time in Japan). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available.
Felt Reports
Dozens of people injured, landslides occurred, roads closed, train service and power disrupted in northern Honshu.
Felt widely in southern Hokkaido and in Honshu as far south as the Tokyo area.
From Japan Meteorological Agency
Earthquake Information
Issued at 00:31 JST 24 Jul 2008
Occurred at (JST) 00:26 JST 24 Jul 2008
Latitude (degree) 39.7N
Longitude (degree) 141.7E
Depth 120km
Magnitude 6.8
Region Name IWATE KEN ENGAN HOKUBU
No Tsunami threat by this earthquake.
Japan Meteorological Agency
When scientists say, (even) looking at an experiment can alter same, I find it hard to believe that forces which change the shape of the earth cannot have some causal affect on earth quakes.
By the time one takes into account the
DOGMATIC RELIGION OF SCIENTISM . . .
IT IS!
Shoot even the quantum physics observer business seems to indicate some element of opinion in reality . . . unless my opinion is . . . as usual . . . flawed!
LOL.
Misawa Air Base with the 35th Air Fighter wing is in a particularly sensitive position for a quake in this region, and likely could suffer greater damage than something right next to the epicenter - I hope everything’s alright there.
Prayers extended for all in the area affected by this quake.
AMEN! AMEN!
Yes, certainly.
Though with the depth, there may not be a lot of damage.
I am fine.:-)
Thank you for the information, Kingu. I looked up Misawa Air Base and the base is located in the same Prefecture, the Aomori Prefecture, as this earthquake.
Hopefully earthquake hazard precautions were taken when Misawa Air Base was first built.
Two days ago, they were closing roads around Misawa Air Base due to some road construction they were doing on the base:
Base construction
7/21/2008 - A Japanese construction worker updates road closure information July 17, 2008. Base residents should be prepared to use alternative routes during base road construction.
21 July 2008 Road construction
Misawa Air Base
The 35th Fighter Wing is the host unit at Misawa Air Base, Japan -- the northernmost U.S. air base in Japan. The only combined, joint service installation in the Western Pacific, Misawa Air Base is located on the shores of Lake Ogawara in Misawa City in the Aomori Prefecture.
Misawa Air Base
Here are some maps showing Japan, and the area of the earthquake:
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