Japan hit by another earthquake...

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**The Bringer**

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00ljadqj.php

Rated 7.4 on the Richter Scale

50 cm high tsunami expected.

**Albatross**

50cm? That doesn't sound that high...

**Lord Scythican**

From what I read, they said about 6 feet high.

**Kilkrazy**

Ouch.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
My wife is worried that Mount Fuji will blow.

**vaatbak**

Good luck, my thoughts go out to the japanes friends.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Saw a report saying 1 foot wave expected
let us hope it is the 50 cm
Still wouldn't want to be hit by that and any flotsam.

Thoughts are with all on low lying areas

**The Bringer**

EDIT - bad math XP

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

50cm is 1'6"
a 30cm rule approximates to a 12" rule

5 metres would be nearer the 16' mark at a guess Bringer.

**The Bringer**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:50cm is 1'6"
a 30cm rule approximates to a 12" rule

5 metres would be nearer the 16' mark at a guess Bringer.

Bleh - sorry, horrible math there.

**frgsinwntr**

half a meter... man you guys are bad at metric!

this shows the difference between a yard and a meter

Noth much difference....

there are 100cm in a meter

**Lord Scythican**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Saw a report saying 1 foot wave expected
let us hope it is the 50 cm
Still wouldn't want to be hit by that and any flotsam.

Thoughts are with all on low lying areas

1 foot waves? Is that even worth reporting? I may be missing something here, so don't take offense, just explain what I am not understanding.

**Kilkrazy**

Imagine a one foot wave a mile long (if you get my meaning).

< ___--___--___--___--___

Ordinary waves.

< ___----------------------------------------------------------------------

Small tsunami.

The total volume of water involved is much larger and therefore will push up rivers although it does not overflow the sea wall.

**Lord Scythican**

Kilkrazy wrote:Imagine a one foot wave a mile long (if you get my meaning).

< ___--___--___--___--___

Ordinary waves.

< ___----------------------------------------------------------------------

Small tsunami.

The total volume of water involved is much larger and therefore will push up rivers although it does not overflow the sea wall.

I get it now. Sorry about that. I really had no idea...

So basically where the small waves at a beach would crash and then recede, the one foot wave that is a mile long would just keep coming and overfill everything?

**Khornholio**

So I didn't dream that Earthquake. I had totally forgotten about it until I read this thread.

Fuji blowing would be catastrophic. Seeing as it is a god, I imagine my idea of throwing the entire government in as a sacrifice might actually get some support.

**Revenent Reiko**

Khornholio wrote:So I didn't dream that Earthquake. I had totally forgotten about it until I read this thread.

Fuji blowing would be catastrophic. Seeing as it is a god, I imagine my idea of throwing the entire government in as a sacrifice might actually get some support.

sorry, that made me smile.
and i echo the above thoughts, good luck and wishes to those in Japan

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Hope that typo is meant to be echo and not ecchi

**Revenent Reiko**

yeah definitely echo, sorry
oops

[edited]

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Always spot my typos... After someone has quoted the post.

Am not hearing a lot of chatter about this quake. Really hoping no news is good news.

**Revenent Reiko**

yeah me too, really need to download Chrome again (built-in spell check is awesome)

and im feeling the same way with the news :S
the worry is its just that it hasnt hit yet...

**Tacobake**

Yes, 50cm is "two rulers".

Much concern for the industrious Japanese.

**juraigamer**

While japan is regularly hit by earthquakes, seeing it's geographical location to a certain ring of fire...

Then again, while it was an earthquake, it wasn't big enough to push all that other crap that's in the news as normal.

**Revenent Reiko**

yeah it is, but they arent normally so large/powerful or located underwater and just off the coast IIRC?

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Nothing on the Radio 3 headlines this morning
Seems the wave didn't happen.
Thank goodness.
Japan deserves some better fortune.

**Avatar 720**

According to BBC News, the Tsunami warning was lifted 90mins after the quake (which had been revised from 7.4 to 7.1 on the RS). It also struck 17km deeper than the original quake.

Current casualites are 3 people, 1 63 year-old woman who died after power outages shut off her respirator, and two men aged 79 and 85 who are thought to have died after heart attacks triggered by the quake.

The nuclear plants seem to be fine though, diesel generators kicked in without issue in most plants where power was lost and the Fukushima plant hasn't reported any irregularities.

**Potato_God**

Well thats good, albeit as good as 3 deaths and a 7.1 earthquake can be. My heart goes out to everyone over there.