{"id":172,"date":"2008-10-29T23:11:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2014-09-30T20:09:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:09:14","slug":"earthquake-all-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2008\/earthquake-all-clear","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake all-clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s my experience that it’s best to inform before information comes from other sources and generates worry.\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore, yes, I was in Sendai at the time of this 5.0 earthquake<\/a>, and it woke me up, but, as the saying goes, I was shaken, not stirred.<\/p>\n

In case the information on the USGS site expires, here’s the skinny:<\/p>\n

Magnitude 5.0 – NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN<\/h2>\n

2008 October 29 15:48:40 UTC<\/h2>\n
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Earthquake Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Magnitude<\/a><\/th>\n5.0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date-Time<\/a><\/th>\n\n
Location<\/a><\/th>\n38.100\u00c2\u00b0N, 141.618\u00c2\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Depth<\/a><\/th>\n88 km (54.7 miles) set by location program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Region<\/a><\/th>\nNEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Distances<\/a><\/th>\n65 km (40 miles) ESE of Sendai, Honshu, Japan<\/strong>
\n110 km (70 miles) ENE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan<\/strong>
\n130 km (80 miles) NNE of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan<\/strong>
\n315 km (195 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location Uncertainty<\/a><\/th>\nhorizontal +\/- 5 km (3.1 miles); depth fixed by location program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parameters<\/a><\/th>\nNST=143, Nph=143, Dmin=348.6 km, Rmss=0.78 sec, Gp= 94\u00c2\u00b0,
\nM-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=Q<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Source<\/a><\/th>\n\n
    \n
  • USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Event ID<\/a><\/th>\nus2008ytb8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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  • This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s my experience that it’s best to inform before information comes from other sources and generates worry.\u00c2\u00a0 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 Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 15:48:40 UTC Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 12:48:40 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 38.100\u00c2\u00b0N, 141.618\u00c2\u00b0E Depth 88 km (54.7 miles) set by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}