Earthquake!

by **aquamarine** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:09 am

Please pardon my complete lack of train-knowledge and y'know... my lack of playing that train-conductor game at the local arcades but HOW on earth would you 'control' the train once it derails? lol!

"TURN INTO THE SLIDE!!!!"

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:22 am

aquamarine wrote:Please pardon my complete lack of train-knowledge and y'know... my lack of playing that train-conductor game at the local arcades but HOW on earth would you 'control' the train once it derails? lol!

"TURN INTO THE SLIDE!!!!"

All trains put on the brakes when an M5 or more shakes up the place. Its automatic.

by **CLOWNPUNCHER** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:32 am

Was shaking alot even here in Ibaraki .Felt at least 25 quakes last night .

First one woke me from a drunken haze !!

by **aquamarine** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:33 am

25!?

I crashed out about 2am, how many more followed after that time???

by **Taro Toporific** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:07 am

aquamarine wrote:25!?

I crashed out about 2am, how many more followed after that time???

There's about one Mag-1.5 or higher quake every 40 minutes---there was a Japanese Mag-4.5 at 10am up there Nigata.

by **Steve Bildermann** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:56 pm

by **gomichild** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:02 pm

Damn they just had another level 5....

by **aquamarine** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:01 pm

Funny that we didn't feel it here in Yokohama (Aobadai & Tama Plaza at least)

by **aquamarine** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:06 am

It's currently 12:04am and I've been feeling the odd shake now and again. Can someone else verify this? I've just been sitting here and my desk wobbled a little bit. I assume it is an after-shock of sorts since there are no roads large enough for a heavy truck to drive down close to my home.

by **Mini_B** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:37 am

This is really #$%^&* up man. I'm watching TV and there's a little beep every five minutes saying there's been another quake. I'm in Tokyo on the 5th floor of a 13 story building. I don't think the duck and cover technique is gonna work under these circumstances. We've felt a couple shakes...but nothing major yet. One big one lastnight though.

by **aquamarine** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:00 am

What did the Japanese people do to piss off the few thousand gods that are supposed to be protecting this country!?

by **mr. sparkle** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:19 am

by **kamome** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:52 am

Man, I was inside Tokyo Dome at 6PM Saturday night when the first quake hit. The lights in the ceiling were swaying so much, we were poised to run out the door. Funny thing is, it was right in the middle of a kickboxing match, and the fighters had to continue in the ring during the quake.

by **Taro Toporific** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:11 am

SHeee-it. Yet aother Mag-5 in Nigata at 6am caused all my plumbing in the "masion" to mooooooan here in Kanto.

AFTERSHOCKS ROCK JAPAN Special Broadcasting Service, Australia - 25 Oct
...A strong aftershock measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale has struck Japan's Niigata region, two days after a powerful earthquake left 23 people dead.

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:42 am

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:48 am

And those moping around sad sacks that won't lift a finger to help themselves in Nigata just got slammed again.

Magnitude 6 quake jolts Niigata Pref.
TOKYO, Oct. 27, 2004, 11:20, Kyodo --- A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 shook the quake-devastated Niigata Prefecture around 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

by **katakori** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:49 am

yep

shindo 3 in tokyo...

by **aquamarine** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:14 pm

Mind if I ask about what time? I was laying in bed and woke up to being slightly shaken.... then I felt my heart beating fairly hard and thought it was just in my mind so I rolled back over and went to sleep.

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:23 pm

aquamarine wrote:Mind if I ask about what time? I was laying in bed and woke up to being slightly shaken.... then I felt my heart beating fairly hard and thought it was just in my mind so I rolled back over and went to sleep.

The quakes happened 10:26am in Tokyo and then in Niigata Prefecture around 10:40 a.m.

by **DonMarco** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:24 pm

How much longer are these little shindo 1-2 aftershocks gonna last? I heard from a roommate they would keep coming until the end of the month.

It's annoying.

by **katakori** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:50 pm

oh yes... annoying indeed...

Three-year-old Mayu Minagawa was swept away in a wave of boulders and earth after a 6.8-magnitude quake struck the road she was traveling on with her mother and brother on Saturday.

On Wednesday, rescuers pulled out Mayu's mother Takako and her 2-year-old brother Yuta from the van in Niigata prefecture.

Yuta survived and is now in hospital, but Takako died of her injuries.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/japan.quake/

if anything, those aftershock are the fun part of the earthquake situation in Japan...

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:47 am

DonMarco wrote:How much longer are these little shindo 1-2 aftershocks gonna last? I heard from a roommate they would keep coming until the end of the month.

It's annoying.

I was watching Japanese news yesterday. they said a part of the tetonic plate has broken off and been destroyed, they said there would be regular earthquakes for a year, although not a sever as time progresses.

by **GomiGirl** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:34 pm

Anybody have any links to some scientific comments to all these earthquakes. NeoNecro?? Something similar to the tectonic plate thing you mentioned would be really interesting.

by **Mini_B** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:03 pm

We're all gonna be burried alive. No doubt.

by **Atarashii** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:17 am

The Defense Agency has drawn up a plan to mobilize the Ground Self-Defense Force in the event of a major earthquake in southern Kanto, dispatching 19,100 troops within 24 hours of a quake and eventually about 85,000 troops, agency sources said Friday.

The mobilization plan for a southern Kanto earthquake was drawn up on the assumption that a shallow-focus earthquake registering 6.5 to 7 on the open-ended Richter scale occurring at 5 p.m. on a weekday in winter.

The quake is predicted to leave about 150,000 people dead, 200,000 people injured and damage about 3.4 million houses and buildings, chiefly in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama prefectures.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm

by **aquamarine** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:52 am

Son of a bitch, so THAT is what woke me up. I kept waking up thinking we had a quake but figured it was just rubbish.

I'll be.

by **gomichild** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:49 am

That 1:38 am quake had me up and jumping out of bed....

by **Taro Toporific** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:00 am

gomichild wrote:That 1:38 am quake had me up and jumping out of bed....

Gee, even my cat slept through that one. Are you folks sleeping on tamami? (Sleeping on the floor accentuates the feeling of an earthquake---you can actually feel the wave hit one side of your futon and move along it.)

by **gomichild** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:25 am

No a bed but I think we were closer than Tokyo was to it.

by **AssKissinger** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:00 am

I don't know where the epicenter was but my apartment was shaking pretty good a couple of minutes ago.

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Earthquake!

this aint cool

Not G O D S - It's all 'bout the Tectonic Plates

Rock on.

those moping around sad sacks that won't lift a finger

Quakes happen

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