Quake in Japan, Tsunami Warnings in US

[Aidey]

Wow! Check out the buildings swaying back and forth. Talk about damn good engineering

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Japan has had a lot of practice building to withstand earthquakes. The tsunami caused significantly more damage than the actual earthquake did.

 

[medicRob]

Japan's had a lot of practice building to withstand earthquakes. The tsunami caused significantly more damage than the actual earthquake did.

Not to mention Japan is about a million years ahead of us on the technology front.

 

[Aidey]

Very true. That is why it is nearly impossible to compare damages between earthquakes. If you look at the USGS's list of most deadly earthquakes, they are all in less industrialized areas, and many of the highest magnitude earthquakes are left off the list because they happened in areas better prepared to deal with them.

 

[Sandog]

As a amateur geology aficionado I am signed up for the USGS ENS. This morning I had literally 30 emails in my inbox about the quakes in Japan.

All you Hawaii people be safe! I got a lot of calling to do here. I have friends in Japan, Guam, California, Hawaii..... :-S God be with all you in the affected area.

I was getting those emails for awhile, I unsubscribed after the novelty wore off and I got tired of all the notices. You might want to set the email warnings for mag 6 or higher or you will get tons of quake notices...

 

[lightsandsirens5]

I was getting those emails for awhile, I unsubscribed after the novelty wore off and I got tired of all the notices. You might want to set the email warnings for mag 6 or higher or you will get tons of quake notices...

Yea....I had them set for 5.0. I re set it to 6.0 for the day and 6.5 at night.

 

[JPINFV]

The problem with this quake is that the aftershocks for it are going to be in the range for quakes that normally cause a ton of damage.

 

[HotelCo]

Small amount of radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear power station.

 

[HotelCo]

NHK television said the outer structure of the building that houses the reactor appeared to have blown off, which could suggest the containment building had already been breached.

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[lightsandsirens5]

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Crud....they seem to be somewhere between TMI and Chernobyl on the international nuclear incident scale.

That could be nasty.

 

[ffemt8978]

Map of tsunami intensity

http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/japan-quake-2011/tsunami-intensity.htm

 

[Anjel]

Before and after pics of Japan.

So sad.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42064847/ns/world_news-asiapacific

 

[lightsandsirens5]

That is horrible!