7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued 313
There is breaking news that a 7.4 Magnitude Quake has hit off the coast of Japan, and a Tsuanmi warning has been made. Please post updates in the comments.
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Fastest slashdot story ever! (Score:5, Informative)
I am still dizzy from the shake (living in yokohama), plenty of blurry images right now in http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ [nhk.or.jp]
2m high tsunami (Score:5, Informative)
According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency the tsunami is about 2m high. Coastal defences should be okay in most places but obviously anyone near the coast should retreat inland if possible.
7.4 != 9.2 Not even close. (Score:4, Informative)
Also in Mexico (Score:4, Informative)
Re:7.4 != 9.2 Not even close. (Score:5, Informative)
Actually there were two 7.4 within a minute (Score:3, Informative)
14:32:41 & 14:32:00
about 100km apart (caveat not so good at spherical trig in head calculations)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia_eqs.php [usgs.gov]
tsunami warning URL (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/ [jma.go.jp]
"Occurred at 23:32 JST 07 Apr 2011
Region name Miyagi-ken Oki
Depth about 40 km
Magnitude 7.4"
Article on MercuryNews.com (Score:5, Informative)
Article: Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits off Japan coast [mercurynews.com]
Some quotes: "Officials say Thursday's quake was a 7.4-magnitude and hit 25 miles (40 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture." "Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute." "The Japan meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter." "Hundreds of aftershocks have shaken the northeast region devastated by the March 11 earthquake, but few have been stronger than 7.0."
Re:Fastest slashdot story ever! (Score:5, Informative)
No injuries reported, according to NHK. This was in the vicinity of the 9.0 quake, 40 km below the sea bed off Sendai.
Japan Meteorological Agency Website... (Score:5, Informative)
Really? BBC Twitter as your source? (Score:5, Informative)
The USGS is like a million times better.
Here's the link: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0002ksa.php [usgs.gov]
and here's the Tsunami info:
http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.2011.04.07.143955 [weather.gov]
Re:7.4 versus 9.0 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Fastest slashdot story ever! (Score:4, Informative)
Off-topic, but what's up with Slashdot links and FF4? Tried to go look at the images and the link didn't work. Had to copy & paste.
I've been having the same problem. Found it works to double-right-click (to open the context menu; single right click doesn't seem to work) and select "open in new tab", but pretty ridiculous. Even worse than before, when control-clicking to open a link in a new window just expand parent threads, often causing you to have to hunt all over the place to find the comment you were reading.
Re:Fastest slashdot story ever! (Score:4, Informative)
For ref, 'cos I was wondering, "shindo" [wikipedia.org] is a japanese earthquake scale, not directly comparable to the richter [wikipedia.org] scale (or the "moment magnitude" [wikipedia.org] scale often mislabelled as richter in the media) - shindo is for various points on the earth's surface, richter for overall energy of quake.
/. figures no one RTFA anyhow (Score:2, Informative)
Just checked it with IE9/64 bit and the link is borked there too. Guess they figure since no one bothers to RTFA why have working links.