Earthquake!

[AssKissinger]

Looks like Fukuoaka? I'm in Hiroshima btw.

[Big Booger]

CNN Coverage

A powerful earthquake hit Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu on Sunday, and tsunami warnings have been issued, public broadcaster NHK said.

Japan's Meteorological Agency warned that tsunamis could hit areas including the coast of Kyushu, NHK said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

The tremor was of magnitude 7, measured according to a technique similar to the Richter scale, but adjusted for Japan's geological characteristics.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.

[Midwinter]

Tenjin and Hakata are still in one piece mostly, Genkaijima on the other hand is looking pretty messed up. Damn it, that was one hell of a wake up call

[Big Booger]

Seems it destroyed some homes and injured around 155 people:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/20/japan.quake/index.html

[kotatsuneko]

the beeb just covered it too, the usual, office shaking, crack on the pavement, one reported dead so far.

no lynching the korean population tho

[kotatsuneko]

if anyones interested, if you look at;

BBC NEWS: VIDEO AND AUDIO

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

they have a video up at the mo

[dimwit]

Felt it pretty well out where 150 km away.

A 75-year-old woman, who was hospitalized after a wall fell on her in Fukuoka city, had died, according to the Kyodo News agency.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7244077/

Weirdly, I think I talked about this on Taro's air conditioner thread two days before the quake. Do you think I should sell my newly found skill to the National Inquirer?

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11062

[Mulboyne]

AFP via Yahoo: Rice porridge ritual predicted major quake in Japan
An annual ritual at a 1,200-year-old Shinto shrine predicted a major earthquake in southern Japan five days before the tremor rocked the region, a priest told AFP. In the fortune-telling ceremony using rice porridge, the Chiriku Hachimangu shrine in Miyaki town in the Kyushu region warned on March 15 of a quake even though the area is historically less prone to tremors. The shrine offers a bowl of porridge to the altar every February 26 and takes it back on March 15. A man from a family which has been been telling fortunes for generations then examines the surface to make predictions. "It was good porridge this year with a shiny surface and not much mould ... but I saw a rare crack," chief priest Masahiro Higashi said Monday... "I think people were surprised to see the prediction come true but I myself was also surprised," added Higashi.

[DJEB]

Magnitude 6.1, shindo 5 in Chiba. News at 11.

[GuyJean]

Magnitude 6.1, shindo 5 in Chiba. News at 11.

Yeah, Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower was swaying to the music..

GJ

[gomichild]

Are we all ok out there in Chiba kids?

(There was a 5 in Chiba this morning at 7:22 am)

[Caustic Saint]

I knew it'd happen sooner or later - I was in the shower when this one hit.

Had to brace myself for a second and make sure it wasn't just the last of the hanami drinking working its way through my system.

[oyajikun]

Yeah we were rocking in Akasaka! I've never felt one sway in a large building before! Awesome!

[AssKissinger]

Magnitude 6.1, shindo 5 in Chiba. News at 11.

Yeah, Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower was swaying to the music..

GJ

Did any kids die?

[GomiGirl]

I woke up briefly and then went back to sleep and forgot about it until I checked my Nooper earthquake report and what I thought had been a dream became my reality.. scary...

The cat was scared shitless too.

[DJEB]

Goddam earthquakes!

[gamma-ro]

I've been spoiled with Sapporo "stability", so I'm not too happy to come back to the quakes. Ugh.

[karekora]

huh?

it didnt seem that strong in itabashi. thought it wouldve done, seeing as the place im living in looks as though its gonna collapse any second, let alone if an earthquake hits. it just seemed like a nice rocking, rocking me back to sleep...

there was a teeny aftershock too right? At 3pm ish?

[CAkOS]

it was fun this morning! A small and long one! yeah!!!!!

[katakori]

it was fun this morning! A small and long one! yeah!!!!!

there were 2, right?

[CAkOS]

Eerrrr... really? I just remember I could not really eat my cereals for about 30 sec.

[aquamarine]

Not too much of one, but just felt a very mild one out here in Tama-Plaza, Yokohama at 8:09pm

[hakuman]

Ya I felt that one here in Yokohama tonite too. Was mild, but actually lasted pretty long - a good 15 seconds or so

[CAkOS]

Yeah I think it was one too this weekend.... not really sure tho....
Maybe been in japan too long now

[dimwit]

There was a fairly big size quake in Fukuoka at judging by the number of injuries.

From the Globe and Mail

Tokyo — A strong earthquake struck southern Japan on Wednesday, damaging hundreds of buildings, triggering landslides and injuring at least 58 people, officials said. There was no threat of a tsunami.

The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8, hit at 6:11 a.m. and was centered 15 kilometres below the seabed in the ocean just west of Fukuoka on Kyushu island, the Central Meteorological Agency said

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050420.wquake0420/BNStory/International/

[Caustic Saint]

Hmmm. I don't think that was thunder I just felt....

[kuru]

It wasn't thunder?...didn't feel a thing.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

It was only a M4.5 earthquake.

But even I thought it was a strange sounding one.

[Blah Pete]

That was a good shaker here (10:20 ish) in Machida. Anyone else feel it?

[FG Lurker]

Two quakes shake Japan
Forbes.com, May 19, 2005

Two earthquakes measuring 5.4 and 5.1 on the Richter scale shook Japan although there were no reports of casualties, officials said.

[...]

Japan, which lies at the junction of four tectonic plates, sees about 20 pct of the world's powerful earthquakes, frequently jolting Tokyo and other major cities where buildings are made to resist tremors.

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Uhh, yeah... All those buildings in Kobe (and the damn expressway) were really "made to resist tremors."