6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Japan 69
tekgoblin writes "Japan shook with yet another earthquake today. Its magnitude was 6.6 and its epicenter was about 60 miles off shore. Initially Japan had warned citizens of a possible tsunami, but they've since cancelled it. No damage or casualties have been reported."
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My head just exploded...
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Indeed. There were something like twenty 6+ quakes while I was there in April June and July.
Only thing I can think is there were a few in one day and it got noticed. Kind of sad that the whole Japan recovery effort is pretty much absent from the US media.
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which earthquake broke all records? the march quake didn't even come close ,except in nominal dollar damage. The worst was the Great Tokyo quake with over 100k dead. And Japan's earthquakes are not generally known for incredible strength, those being in Chile, Alaska and Sumatra.
Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere (Score:2)
Some how I don't think the current occupants of Korean peninsula would be receptive to the idea... indeed, I suspect many of them would find the very concept of being grouped with the Japanese as being of same origin deeply insulting, irrespective of what genetical evidence there might be.
And please don't encourage the Japanese to try to reestablish the Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere again; the last time they tried it, most other occupants of the said sphere did not fare well...
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Tsunami hits Japan, Japan completely unprepared
They didn't even have a word for it!
What a Hint ... (Score:1)
This gave me the chance to realize that the 'subline' "news for nerds, stuff that matters" has been removed, presumably with the all new design. Right so!
CC.
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You realize it's still in the main page's title right?
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuf
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Not news (Score:3, Informative)
Not news. I get notifications from the USGS for EQs 6.0+. They've been having 1 or 2 per month since the big one in March. This is the largest since a 7.0 on July 10.
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I have the feeling a 6.0 - 7.0 is big news in most places in the world, where the buildings can't take that. But in Japan, which seems to be able to ride out 7.0 - 9.0 with not much loss of life, (one lady fell off her balcony in Tokyo apparently... that was it) a 6.0 seems barely newsworthy.
And of course like the parent poster said; they've been getting one or two every month. It's starting to become a way of life it seems...
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Also, most of them are happening offshore, which limits the effects. Now, if a M6+ earthquake went off directly under Tokyo, things would be a little more dramatic.
Now, this is what woke me up the other day (at 5pm local time - jetlag!), a mere 6.2 but much closer to Tokyo than the one in the article, and it was so unremarkable I'd forgotten all about it until now.
Nuclear power is safe! (Score:5, Funny)
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top 10 slashdot comments
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And to store all the solar energy one would have to pave the entire state of Arizona with batteries. Once they leak, everyone in New Mexico would die.
Even worse: Getting all the solar power from Japan to Arizona and back would incur huge losses so you'd need more solar power and batteries (you might need to pave over Arizona and Utah), not to mention thousands of miles of cables.
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And it produces zero energy. Just where does the energy to condense the steam, and to flash the water to steam come from?
Remember the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Or as Neil Peart wrote:
"You can't get something for nothing" - Rush "Something For Nothing"
Do they... (Score:3)
Take the seismologists to court for failing to predict the quake, or does that only happen in Italy?
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Quick (Score:2)
and here I thought (Score:1)
Earthquakes were fairly frequent in Japan ...
0.025% of the energy of an 9.0 earthquake (Score:2)
This isn't interesting. What is interesting? (Score:2)
This is just an aftershock from Japan's big one. It isn't interesting. What's interesting?
The slight to moderate quakes across the entire US are interesting. The Virginia quake is the biggest; but if you look on the map now you can still see a triangular pattern that covers Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. Those are smaller quakes--3 to 4 magnitude. There was one in Alabama too.
Quakes in that range are not unheard of in the eastern and midwest US; but it seems like there have been a lot more of them lat
I, for one (Score:2)
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This is why we need to stop relying on the earthquake's peak energy output for determining newsworthy events - deep strong quakes can do diddly squat and yet the idiot journalists see the big number and automatically think it's newsworthy. Rate earthquakes based on how much damage they do, not based on how much energy is released. A 5.0 under St. Louis would be several orders of magnitude more newsworthy than a deep 8.0 out in the middle of fucking nowhere.
Not "The Big One" (Score:2)
Link (Score:2)
ok guys, why not a link to the excellent japanese metrological agency earthquake information in english?
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/00000000091.html [jma.go.jp]
Ho hum (Score:2)
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Once the tsunami warning was called off, it wasn't.
More people need to mod down uninteresting articles in the Recent section.
something is up ! (Score:2)
Ok...now i know something is fishy!!
If you get that size magnitude earthquake, it must be something going on, and my thoughts are that maybe china or korea might be testing their nukes under the water....that would force the tsunamis and earthquakes for sure....
My next thought is a scary one though, if you could forcibly sink Japan as a whole , then your whole shoreline becomes the mecca for import and trading ...could this be china's way of forcing there be
where as now it seems Japan gets a lot of traffic.