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Central England laid waste by massive M3.2 quake
Houses shook for up to 10 seconds... things fell off shelves... skirting board painting activies barely affected...
Lawrence Green, @lawrence41green, tweeted: "Are we expecting a tsunami from Rutland water after this morning's earthquake??"
Taro Toporific wrote:Bang! Just one big shake!
Mag 5.1 in Chiba!
Coligny wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:Bang! Just one big shake!
Mag 5.1 in Chiba!
Kewl map, which wabsite ?
Taro Toporific wrote:What makes it cool is that the twitter website does away with the crappy subjective Japanese Shindo Scale and just uses the objective Moment Magnitude Scale (MMS) (Richter scale predecessor).
yanpa wrote:Hmm, you're losing me there. MMS is the Richter scale successor, and is a measure of the energy released, not the intensity at a particular locale.Taro Toporific wrote:What makes it cool is that the twitter website does away with the crappy subjective Japanese Shindo Scale and just uses the objective Moment Magnitude Scale (MMS) (Richter scale predecessor).
yanpa wrote:While the Twitter feed you link certainly quotes the "crappy subjective Japanese Shindo Scale".
yanpa wrote:(Not being a seismologist, how is e.g. the Mercalli intensity scale less crappy?)
Taro Toporific wrote:yanpa wrote:While the Twitter feed you link certainly quotes the "crappy subjective Japanese Shindo Scale".
That map is sort of deceit by the JWA. It instantly shows the real MMS/Richter measurement and then there is a 1~2 minute lag as the government observers are polled and then shitty Shindo results are posted, grrr.yanpa wrote:(Not being a seismologist, how is e.g. the Mercalli intensity scale less crappy?)
Arrrrg, the Shindo and Mercalli are total subjective rubbish*---I don't want to know if the fuckqueing government observers were scared and their porn magazines fell off the shelves; just tell me IMMEDIATELY what the exact shaking force was.
Taro Toporific wrote:*Europe and Japan prefers subjective measurements Shindo and Mercalli because of the lack
of proper instrumentation in the old days but high population densities available to make observations.
In the Americas, objective measurements like the MMS and Richter scales are only logical due to the philosophical
problem centered around if-an-earthquake-makes-a-tree-fall-in-the-forest-and-no-one-is-around-to-hear-it
does-it-make-a-sound?
yanpa wrote:The Showa era called and demanded its "government observers" back. Here in Heisei we get our Shindo measurements from machines
Anyway must be off and feed the little komuin who lives in my gas meter and who will turn it off every time he feels it's above shindo 4.
Taro Toporific wrote:yanpa wrote:The Showa era called and demanded its "government observers" back. Here in Heisei we get our Shindo measurements from machines
Yes, but the squirrels running on the treadmills take 1 minute 30 seconds to run the cogs on the steam-powered fax machine to send the Polaroid photo of the seismic measurements to the JWA reporting center.
yanpa wrote:Just how useful is knowing the Shindo say 30 seconds earlier anyway?
yanpa wrote:Just how useful is knowing the Shindo say 30 seconds earlier anyway?
Taro Toporific wrote:*This automatic Japanese map of the MMS readings
is the whole reason I was so interested in the first place.
It's fucking stuuupid to have to go to the USGS to get
prompt information about Japanese quakes.
yanpa wrote:Fascinating - mobile phone earthquake alarms still function even after the contract has been cancelled.
yanpa wrote:Fascinating - mobile phone earthquake alarms still function even after the contract has been cancelled.
chokonen888 wrote:yanpa wrote:Fascinating - mobile phone earthquake alarms still function even after the contract has been cancelled.
I got that shit in full surround sound...what a horrible way to be awoken at the buttcrack of dawn
GomiGirl wrote:... multiple keitais around the place it is a nightmare when they all go off at 4 in the morning. Plus the public service announcement blasting outside the window it seemed. aarrgh
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