Earthquake all-clear

It’s my experience that it’s best to inform before information comes from other sources and generates worry.  Therefore, yes, I was in Sendai at the time of this 5.0 earthquake, and it woke me up, but, as the saying goes, I was shaken, not stirred.

In case the information on the USGS site expires, here’s the skinny:

Magnitude 5.0 – NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

2008 October 29 15:48:40 UTC

Earthquake Details

Magnitude 5.0
Date-Time
Location 38.100°N, 141.618°E
Depth 88 km (54.7 miles) set by location program
Region NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances 65 km (40 miles) ESE of Sendai, Honshu, Japan
110 km (70 miles) ENE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
130 km (80 miles) NNE of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan
315 km (195 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5 km (3.1 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters NST=143, Nph=143, Dmin=348.6 km, Rmss=0.78 sec, Gp= 94°,
M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=Q
Source
  • USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2008ytb8
  • This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

 

3 thoughts on “Earthquake all-clear

  1. SursumCorda

    Thanks for the good news. My “other sources” are falling down on the job: even now, a Google News search for “earthquake japan” finds nothing more worrisome than this concern over toilets.

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  2. thduggie Post author

    It was, in Japanese terms, an insignificant event. It didn’t make the news except as a lowly ticker item. On the USGS page where you can enter some information if you felt an earthquake it wasn’t listed either – apparently not strong enough. I don’t mind.

    Toilets are not the only concern when the overdue earthquake hits Tokyo. If it hits in the night, it won’t be too bad, but in the day there will be thousands (millions?) in the city that live one or two hours’ train commute away. The mental picture I get is that of “the rout of civilisation, (…) the massacre of mankind.”

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  3. thduggie Post author

    Someone – allegedly a Sharon Thornton from the IUGG – e-mailed me to let me know the link to the USGS site was broken. I’ve fixed it, but not as per her (his?) suggestion, which linked to a krill oil website (which does have a list of earthquakes…).

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