Earthquake!

[matsuki]

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yes ma'am

[GomiGirl]

Hey lazy bones - no hotlinking.

[Coligny]

Hey lazy bones - no hotlinking.

Time for this rule to die:

the internet is no longer steam powered
after the transition only the hotlinked pics were working
during the first weeks image upload was not even enabled

if the original host don't block hotlinking, which is now easy to enable, no reason to forbid it anymore...

[yanpa]

The problem with hotlinking is that someone links to an image, submits the post and sees the image in the post because it's already cached in their browser - but the hotlinked site is blocking external referers so the rest of us don't see it.

[Coligny]

ok, but at least allow imagehostz...

[yanpa]

Any site which gives out image links for hotlinking is fine, IMHO.

[Russell]

How can I check whether a site doesn't allow hotlinking?

Signed,

A Notorious HitLonker

[yanpa]

1. Hotlink the image.
2. Using a different browser, check whether the image shows up in your post.

[MrUltimateGaijin]

Anyone else feel the magnitude 4.7 in Chiba this morning? Chiba seems to have been really shaking for the past 6 months.

[Taro Toporific]

Anyone else feel the magnitude 4.7 in Chiba this morning? Chiba seems to have been really shaking for the past 6 months.

An NHK earthquake science program a few days ago said, "Plate Movements should intensify and occur farther south of Fukushima" (translation: Chiba gonna get it next).

«Disaster Information {goofy Google }

M2.4の地震、千葉県北東部
この地震による津波の心配はありません。１４日０６時４０分ころ、地震がありました。最大震度１　千葉県
4 hours, 11 minutes ago

M4.6の地震、千葉県北西部
この地震による津波の心配はありません。１４日０５時０３分ころ、地震がありました。最大震度２　茨城県、栃木県、群馬県、埼玉県、千葉県、東京都、神奈川県、静岡県
5 hours, 48 minutes ago

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[yanpa]

Anyone else feel the magnitude 4.7 in Chiba this morning? Chiba seems to have been really shaking for the past 6 months.

An NHK earthquake science program a few days ago said, "Plate Movements should intensify and occur farther south of Fukushima" (translation: Chiba gonna get it next).

There's been a fair bit of activity off the southeast coast of Hokkaido as well. My personal theory - and I may be talking out of my posterior - is that as the Tohoku quake shifted large areas of Tohoku to the east, there is still a lot of tension waiting to be released both to the south and north.

Let me also introduce you to the Sagami Trough 千葉・房総半島南方沖で大地震の恐れ M8級になるとの予測も

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via: 想定される房総半島南東沖地震と房総半島周辺のスローイベントについて

[MrUltimateGaijin]

I wonder which is likely to go first, one of the faults under the greater Tokyo area (like the Tachikawa one) or the Nakai trough? Either way, post calamity life will certainly be difficult.

[Coligny]

Right now i would pay real money to have paper topographic maps (地形図 or スタッフの地図 ?) to try to get ideas where the shit is gonna fling when it hit the fan...

any link to usable online shops ?all i usually see are in books, while these kind of things are more supposed to be as big as a mattress and printed on one side only to be usable on backlit table

[nikoneko]

Proper topo maps are really hard to find here. I have looked and looked for outdoor use, the only "real" ones I have ever seen were in the hands of mountain workers. Also at mountaineering shops they have decent ones for the famous mountains. Other than that it is trail maps which are widely available, the 山と高原地図 series being the most common. You could also go here and print your own: http://watchizu.gsi.go.jp/index.html Those are put out by the gov't and is what most Japanese use when a trail map isn't available. If you do find the good ones let me know please.

[Coligny]

roger willco

thanks

[Coligny]

found this:

http://www.jmc.or.jp/index.html

can't understand jack shit, and translators don't work for text pasted on graphics. the laughable english side make me think they are selling sumthing...

[yanpa]

You are correct, the maps are here.

[Coligny]

Also, this looks not so bad:

http://www.kashmir3d.com/index.html

[wagyl]

Personally I tend to use the http://watchizu.gsi.go.jp/index.html service linked by nikoneko.

Drilling down further here...

You are correct, the maps are here.

I see that there are specialist fault-line maps for selected cities and regions. Those who prefer their fault-lines to include the whole country, be major, and have the addition of ludicrously accurate probability of occurrence figures pulled out of somebody's bum, are invited to consider this.

Not wanting to be limited by earthquakes? We have selected volcanoes in glorious colour, or subsidence in Kanto. Tragedy porn in graphic format Sir? You've come to the right place.

[Taro Toporific]

1:47pm: I just cracked open a can of Cola Shock, sloshed in a couple extra shots of [i]shochu[/i] hooch, and then I could swear the earth started moving. Weird.
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[quote]M 5.0 Earthquake, 277km ESE of Namie, Japan
Depth 35.2 km (21.9 miles)
10 hours ago
U.S. Geological Survey

M 4.6 Earthquake, 13km SSE of Hakui, Japan
Depth 12.2 km (7.6 miles)
12 hours ago
U.S. Geological Survey

M5.3の地震、千葉県東方沖
この地震による津波の心配はありません。４日１３時４２分ころ、地震がありました。最大震度４　茨城県、千葉県
15 minutes ago[/quote]

[yanpa]

1:47pm: I just cracked open a can of Cola Shock, sloshed in a couple extra shots of shochu hooch, and then I could swear the earth started moving. Weird.

M5.3の地震、千葉県東方沖
この地震による津波の心配はありません。４日１３時４２分ころ、地震がありました。最大震度４　茨城県、千葉県
15 minutes ago

Do give us some warning before you go on an epic bender so we can stock up on toilet paper and bottled water.

[Russell]

That was a pretty one on Awaji island.
Magnitude 6 (Richter scale) and Shindo 6 (Japanese scale) in the epicenter.

Most surrounding areas on Honshu had Shindo 4, except the area near Kansai airport (Shindo 5). They closed the airport to check.

Everybody in Kinki OK?

My first thought when waking up by this one, was that it was the Big One in Tokyo that we felt, but fortunately that did not happen.

[FG Lurker]

That was a helluva bad way to get woken up on a Saturday morning.

Everything seems fine here in Osaka though, just a lot of jumping up and down for much longer than normal for a quake -- and a lot higher than normal on the shake-o-meter, too.

Guess I'll be getting an early start on work today...

[Yokohammer]

Take care Kansai guys. 6- is pretty scary (and can do some damage).

Didn't feel a thing up here though.

[FG Lurker]

Take care Kansai guys. 6- is pretty scary (and can do some damage).

Didn't feel a thing up here though.

I felt the Tohoku quake down here, certainly glad we haven't had any big enough (yet...) that you guys are feeling up there! Kobe @M7.2 was more than bad enough, hard to imagine the havoc a 9 in Kansai would create.

[Yokohammer]

"Yet" ... yes, that's worth keeping in mind, especially for the next few days.

I was once more reassured than anything after fairly strong quakes, subscribing to the theory that they "released pressure" and that a larger quake was unlikely to follow. The big quake up here completely trashed that theory. There were a couple of pretty big shakers in the few weeks immediately prior to the Big One, and one that was about a 5, I think, just two or three days before.

Not trying to be a scaremonger or anything, just suggesting caution for a while.

[Coligny]

Sidenote, my IWank devicess gave me the official Apple Emergency Alert in order to let me kiss my autographed St Jobs picture one last time before rapture...

[FG Lurker]

Hey lazy bones - no hotlinking.

Yeah, cause that worked so well with the FG transition and all non-hotlinked photos getting nuked...

[Coligny]

Plus the 3 pictures limit per post... whichizabit... not enough... and tedious...

plus... we're not on 2400bps modem anymore, page load time is faster with several servers involved...

[Coligny]

"Yet" ... yes, that's worth keeping in mind, especially for the next few days.

I was once more reassured than anything after fairly strong quakes, subscribing to the theory that they "released pressure" and that a larger quake was unlikely to follow. The big quake up here completely trashed that theory. There were a couple of pretty big shakers in the few weeks immediately prior to the Big One, and one that was about a 5, I think, just two or three days before.

Not trying to be a scaremonger or anything, just suggesting caution for a while.

As usual with chaotic systems... yer theory can still be perfectly valid... the pressure release from the previous ones might have cancelled the restrain they were putting that was holding the big one... in a rube goldberg kind of way.