Thread: Another Earthquake in Japan Today, 7.1

9 dead, over 1,000 injured in Kyushu quake

National Apr. 15, 2016 - 06:20PM JST ( 50 )


TOKYO —
Nine people died and more than 1,000 others were injured after a powerful earthquake jolted southwestern Japan on Thursday night, local police said Friday.
The magnitude-6.5 quake at 9:26 p.m. originated at a relatively shallow depth of around 11 kilometers in Kumamoto Prefecture and registered a maximum 7 on the Japanese scale in the town of Mashiki in the prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Among the injured, 53 were seriously hurt, while up to 44,400 people were taking shelter at about 500 sites in the prefecture, the prefectural government said.
Around 20 houses collapsed in and around Mashiki, trapping people in buildings and under debris. Fires also broke out there.
It was the first quake in Japan to measure a maximum 7 on the Japanese seismic scale since the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated vast areas of northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. However, no tsunami warning was issued and no abnormalities have been detected at nuclear power plants in the southern island of Kyushu.
In Tokyo, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged the government’s best efforts in rescue and relief work. “We will do our best to ensure the safety of residents,” he said, adding the government has deployed more than 3,000 police, firefighters and Self-Defense Forces personnel to Kumamoto Prefecture, the hardest hit in the quake.[more]
9 dead, over 1,000 injured in Kyushu quake

That was yesterday.

Today: 7.0 quake strikes Japan after earlier one kills 9 - CNN.com

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck early Saturday morning in Japan's Kyushu island, the same region a magnitude 6.2 quake struck late Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Crazy activity.

Happens there all the time, I would move somewhere else.

On queue...

JAPAN EXODUS AS QUAKES SHAKE

It comes and goes. When I lived there I got used to them. Even slept through a few strong ones. Was there during the big one in 2011. I didn't sleep through that one.

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Earthquakes of that magnitude are frightening. I grew up in SoCal and experienced numerous quakes at different magnitudes and yes, mostly you learn to just roll with it. But, I did experience a 6.9 and a 7.2 and they scared the hell out of me! After the 7.2 hit, that was the beginning of the end of me living in SoCal. In the last month here on the BI we have felt 3 shakers between 3.8-4.2 which is rare in that short of time. I'm always wondering if one of the other volcanoes on the island is starting to shake off their sleep.

That's scary....

Originally Posted by konakathy

Earthquakes of that magnitude are frightening. I grew up in SoCal and experienced numerous quakes at different magnitudes and yes, mostly you learn to just roll with it. But, I did experience a 6.9 and a 7.2 and they scared the hell out of me! After the 7.2 hit, that was the beginning of the end of me living in SoCal. In the last month here on the BI we have felt 3 shakers between 3.8-4.2 which is rare in that short of time. I'm always wondering if one of the other volcanoes on the island is starting to shake off their sleep.

Originally Posted by konakathy

Earthquakes of that magnitude are frightening. I grew up in SoCal and experienced numerous quakes at different magnitudes and yes, mostly you learn to just roll with it. But, I did experience a 6.9 and a 7.2 and they scared the hell out of me! After the 7.2 hit, that was the beginning of the end of me living in SoCal. In the last month here on the BI we have felt 3 shakers between 3.8-4.2 which is rare in that short of time. I'm always wondering if one of the other volcanoes on the island is starting to shake off their sleep.

I grew up in SoCal myself left at 13. Plenty of shakin' the bacon over there.