6.8 Quake Hits Japan, Triggers Tsunami Warnings

Japan (CNN)-

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake early Saturday struck offshore not far from Fukushima, Japan — the epicenter of a nuclear crisis following a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami — the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.

The same agency issued tsunami advisories for the Pacific coast in the region of Tohoku, as well as for coastal regions in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures following the quake.

“Marine threat is in place,” the meteorological agency warned for those in imperiled areas. “Get out of the water and leave the coast immediately.”

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered off Honshu island some 129 kilometers (79 miles) east-southeast of Namie and 284 kilometers east-northeast of Tokyo. It was 13 kilometers, or 8 miles, deep.

There were no immediate reports of damage.

Any sizable tremor in or near Japan — and any tsunami warning — inevitably raises dark memories dating to March 11, 2011, when a 9.0-magnitude struck 231 miles northeast of Tokyo.

That quake, the fourth largest on record since 1900 and the largest ever to hit Japan, produced a tsunami with 30-foot waves

When all was over, the combination of the quake and, especially, the tsunami left some 16,000 people dead.

The event also set off a prolonged crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northern part of Honshu, including the spread of some radioactive material and very real fears of an even worse calamity as authorities tried to bring the dangerous situation under control.



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A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Fukushima, Japan early Saturday, July 12, 2014 — the epicenter of a nuclear crisis following a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami — the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.
Courtesy: USGS

  

Morning Sassy and everyone. For those of you interested, here's a website that shows up to the minute earthquakes around the world, giving the strength and depth of the quakes.

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

Morning Stardesk, it's a great site and until I found it, never realised how many quakes there are every day, even though most are small.

Hi Sassy. There seem to be quite a lot around the California region. One day they'll get a really big one, but let's hope not because it's heavily populated.

As said, 16,000 killed in the last Japan quake and tsunami. Forgive me for laughing, but didn't God do a magnificent job when he created the world. Ah, don't forget the 23,000 that died in the Asian tsunami.

Absolutely, create and erase doesn't seem a good plan does it lol

stardesk wrote:
Hi Sassy. There seem to be quite a lot around the California region. One day they'll get a really big one, but let's hope not because it's heavily populated.

As said, 16,000 killed in the last Japan quake and tsunami. Forgive me for laughing, but didn't God do a magnificent job when he created the world. Ah, don't forget the 23,000 that died in the Asian tsunami.

THE leading earthquake prone regions, and the most active volcanoes, are both found around the "Pacific Rim of Fire".

THE three leading areas for earthquakes are Japan, New Zealand and the West coast of America (California, Oregon and Washington state..). ALL three are located on the edge of their respective 'Continental Plates'..

Whereas the more stable areas of the world (e.g. Britain and much of Europe, Australia, Eastern Russia, most of Africa, the Eastern parts of South America - those places that might experience tremors every 25-30 years, and earthquakes only once or twice in a century..) are usually located more centrally on those 'Continental Plates'.

Quite right Wolf, the Pacific Ring of Fire. Eastern Europe, such as Turkey, has had some horrific quakes. And volcanoes seem to be more active in the Far Eastern islands and Polynesia areas. Thank goodness we don't get anything like that, being so heavily populated, although we're not far from Iceland which has a huge volcano which is believed to be working up to an eruption.