thoughts go out to all those affected

[butters]

by the Japanese quake and tsunami - 7.9 and generating tidal wave/s that might hit Hawaii as well.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

by the Japanese quake and tsunami - 7.9 and generating tidal wave/s that might hit Hawaii as well.

Even worse - 8.9 "A Big One". Horrific pictures and anecdotes from those who lived through it. We had tsunami warnings here on the west coast too, they closed Long Beach which is a surfer destination.

It's times like these, and they seem to more frequent lately, that makes a person feel helpless. All we can do is help organisation like the Red Cross to do their bit.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I thought they had instruments that could foretell earthquakes and if they haven't they should. One think a lot of people don't know is that the Freemasons will be amongst the first to send large amounts of money to help

 

[theognis]

I thought they had instruments that could foretell earthquakes and if they haven't they should. One think a lot of people don't know is that the Freemasons will be amongst the first to send large amounts of money to help

There's no way to predict exactly when these major quakes will occur; it's only possible to predict that they WILL occur. A similar quake on the US west coast is inevitable, and could happen tomorrow. They occur with some regularity, and it's been 311 years since the last one.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Don't know if it's correct or not but have heard 3 more have hit

 

[theognis]

Don't know if it's correct or not but have heard 3 more have hit

Aftershocks. It's unlikely another really large quake in the 8.9 range will hit Japan for a good long while now, probably centuries.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Even worse - 8.9 "A Big One". Horrific pictures and anecdotes from those who lived through it. We had tsunami warnings here on the west coast too, they closed Long Beach which is a surfer destination.

It's times like these, and they seem to more frequent lately, that makes a person feel helpless. All we can do is help organisation like the Red Cross to do their bit.

The USGS NEIC states that severe earthquake frequency does not appear to have changed recently (this article was after the Haiti earthquake).
The picture is not so clear when we consider hurricanes - there are indications of an overall increase in energy, but our detailed observation interval is brief for both earthquakes and hurricanes.
These events are definitely better known due to recent technology - both communications and measurements.
I too regret the death and destruction and offer only limited help like the rest of us. Intellectually, I am fascinated by these events, but abhorred by their human consequences.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

We may moan about England's weather but at least we aren't in fear of such catastrophes although we did have a hurricane in 1987. I didn't realise until I was watching television last night that Japan has earthquakes every day!

 

[butters]

estimated 9,500 dead.

the images of a town that's disappeared, the lost trains, the people in cars trying to drive away but getting caught by the wave.... words can't begin...

takes me right back to the boxing day tsunami

 

[butters]

we each of us should count our daily blessings.


question: what're the posts of an anonymous jerk by comparison?

answer: nothing

 

[twelveoone]

We may moan about England's weather but at least we aren't in fear of such catastrophes although we did have a hurricane in 1987. I didn't realise until I was watching television last night that Japan has earthquakes every day!

JAPAN NATURAL DISASTERS
Japan can have up to 5000 earthquakes each year.
excerpt..
The worst earthquake of modern days struck in Tokyo and Yokohama on September 1, 1923. The quake ruined several hundred thousand homes and buildings, the fires that followed caused more damage. In this earthquake, more than one hundred and forty thousand people were killed. The heat of the fires was so bad that it caused tornado-like winds. One large group of people that were in a shallow lake around Asakusa of Tokyo died when the fierce winds and fires sucked all the oxygen out of the air around them.

Today, Japan has strict building codes to make them stand up better in earthquakes. The Government has also organized disaster-prevention and relief measures.

some perspective, in one photo it looked like a apartment building had fallen over, intact, not collapsed.

 

[twelveoone]

We may moan about England's weather but at least we aren't in fear of such catastrophes although we did have a hurricane in 1987. I didn't realise until I was watching television last night that Japan has earthquakes every day!

Tsunamis in the United Kingdom

Click on the link to Lisbon 1755

Things happen. One hurricane in 1987, I think Florida gets hit at least one a year, once it got hit three times by the same hurricane. These are hurricanes (Atlantic) not usually as big as Pacific or Indian.

 

[Maria2394]

God bless .

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Tsunamis in the United Kingdom

Click on the link to Lisbon 1755

Things happen. One hurricane in 1987, I think Florida gets hit at least one a year, once it got hit three times by the same hurricane. These are hurricanes (Atlantic) not usually as big as Pacific or Indian.

I don't know if I really wanted to know that! The sea did come over in 1953 and the village where it broke through first was where I grew up .... place called Sea Palling in Norfolk. Although they have some defences up there has been great controversy about the government saying that it costs too much to protect Norfolk's low lying land any further and if it did come over again my old Village would be gone forever because they reckon it would spread inland for at least 4 miles. I grew up with the sea in all her moods and I've seen ships thrown up along that beach. Holidaymakers used to say oh you are so lucky living here but they should have tried it in winter the wind whipping off the sea was no joke when I had to go out in it to school each day

 

[bogusagain]

I was watching television last night that Japan has earthquakes every day!

I've experienced about ten earthquakes in Japan that would have been national news if they happened in Britain but they were never enough to provoke a comment from the Japanese who just seemed to accept quakes as normal. The first one was scary because I was in a lightweight wooden house which actually moved about a foot in the night. No one mentioned it at breakfast until I commented on it, when my friend said 'oh yes, it woke me for a moment.' Another time I was asleep in a hotel in Tokyo and I woke up because it felt like I was on a boat because the building was swaying, which it was designed to do of course. Again no one mentioned it. By this time I was getting the message this was bloody normal. I found it rather disconcerting to be reminded so often that 'The Big One' was expected at any time. That was a couple of years ago now and any time could be hundreds of years in geological terms but it seems it was this year. Such disasters are so big its difficult to comprehend them. You watch the tsunami on TV and its difficult get your head round the fact you are effectively watching people die. Chilling when you get down onto a personal level.

 

[twelveoone]

I don't know if I really wanted to know that! The sea did come over in 1953 and the village where it broke through first was where I grew up .... place called Sea Palling in Norfolk. Although they have some defences up there has been great controversy about the government saying that it costs too much to protect Norfolk's low lying land any further and if it did come over again my old Village would be gone forever because they reckon it would spread inland for at least 4 miles. I grew up with the sea in all her moods and I've seen ships thrown up along that beach. Holidaymakers used to say oh you are so lucky living here but they should have tried it in winter the wind whipping off the sea was no joke when I had to go out in it to school each day

I know the 53 was real bad in Holland.

well there is always Alice Springs.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Tsunamis in the United Kingdom

Click on the link to Lisbon 1755

Things happen. One hurricane in 1987, I think Florida gets hit at least one a year, once it got hit three times by the same hurricane. These are hurricanes (Atlantic) not usually as big as Pacific or Indian.

Thanks - there does appear to be tectonic association for Lisbon.
I had always assumed that Lisbon was near the epicenter and that it was another rare instance, like Charleston, SC or New Madrid, Mo (Rough Creek fault zone there, but still mid-plate.)

 

[butters]

looks as if i might need to move.

 

[vrosej10]

Then there's the nuclear shit too. Poor Japanese, they have way too much on their plates right now. I've had to stop watching the constant news reports because I am becoming too distressed...

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I don't know if it's the reality of this or what but I can't stop crying today or clinging to Ron ........I'm a mess

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Then there's the nuclear shit too. Poor Japanese, they have way too much on their plates right now. I've had to stop watching the constant news reports because I am becoming too distressed...

And they have too many plates.
Japan lies on 4 separate plates. The earthquake occurred on the North American plate (really the Okhotsk sub-plate). The Pacific plate is subducting under it at around 10 cm/yr.
I may have missed it, but I haven;t seen the sort pf punishment my god crap as there was for Haiti.

 

[theognis]

This was written over a year ago

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/03/1700_earthquake_a_reminder_of.html

If a quake similar to the 1700 event were to hit tomorrow it would likely kill hundreds of thousands, at the very least. One will definitely hit, eventually, and it could be soon; people residing on the North American west coast are living with a ticking time bomb, for certain.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Is it true that Japan is now closer to America and the world has moved on it's axis?!

 

[butters]

Is it true that Japan is now closer to America and the world has moved on it's axis?!

i don't know, annie, but i do know i'm having to take a break from the 24/7 coverage - i can't be watching if they start showing the 2000 + bodies washed up on the beaches...

 

[UnderYourSpell]

What amazed me was people standing on a bridge as the water rushed through underneath, I don't know about you but that's what I call foolhardy, that bridge could have been swept into the maelstrom at any minute