Huge earthquake hits Japan

Big deal. Ben and J-Lo just had an ice cream cone or something.
 
arcticpenguin said:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/09/25/japan.earthquake/index.html


That's pretty big. It's in Hokkaido, I don't if any big population centers are nearby. Most of the big cities are on the main island, Honshu.
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Still it´s Richter 7.8; the Kobe quake was 7.2, so this one is about 3-4 times more powerful. (1 more Richter means 10 times more powerful) If this had been further to the south, say in Tokyo or another big city...I don´t really want to imagine what would have happened.
 
Latest reports are that Gamera has been sighted approaching Tokyo.
 
arcticpenguin said:

Do you have a link for that?
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Yeah, we don't want to find out later on that the report was inaccuarate and it was in fact Gaaaaaapaaaaaaaa attacking.
 
Meanwhile in Siberia: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7404843%5E1702,00.html

A SECOND earthquake rocked southern Siberia today, causing heavy damage in parts of the Altai republic and prompting officials to declare a state of emergency.

Neither quake, which had their epicentres deep underground in Russia's Altai republic, caused any deaths, but the second earthquake, which had an estimated magnitude of between five and six, caused considerable damage, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

It followed a quake yesterday that had a magnitude of 8.5, but an epicentre that was 33km underground.
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8.5 is pretty huge.
 
It followed a quake yesterday that had a magnitude of 8.5, but an epicentre that was 33km underground.
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Don't they mean focus? Isn't the epicentre, by definition, at the surface?
 
I wonder whether that crazy Asian guy who caused the storms in the US a few months back also caused this one. If I recall he did it because of Randi. Has Randi been to Japan recently?
 
And the earth has started trebling here again...

Three earth-quakes in Athens during the weekend and 4 in the Aegean Sea around 4 Richter all of them.

You eventually get used to them, you know.
 
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