Japan Quake Map Dot Com

[MJL]

Here is a link to a website that brings the reality of what has happened and is still happening in Japan, Nuclear difficulties aside. I find it fascinating.

 

http://www.japanquakemap.com/

[Paul Forwood]

If only we could harness some of the enormous tectonic energy generated all around the ring of fire we could shut down all nuclear reactors for good. There is plenty of work out there for brilliant designers and engineers.

[Rodney]

That is rather awesome (and I mean that literally not hyperbolically).

It reminds us just how fragile the stability of our land is.

It also explains why I constantly feel earthquakes here in Japan. (My wife doesn't feel all the earthquakes I do presumably because he's a native of Japan?)

 

Very very interesting.

Thanks for the site Myron!

[John Bigboote]

That is quite interesting and eye-opening... the amount of 5Magnitude earthquakes in succession. Has this ever happened before in recorded history? ANY glimpse you can give on day to day life in Japan during all this Rodney, we'd love to hear.

[Rodney]

ANY glimpse you can give on day to day life in Japan during all this Rodney, we'd love to hear.

 

I fear the glimpse of day to day life you'd get from me would be pretty boring and filtered through official channels.

I'd tell you more but then I'd have to debrief you. (I'm kidding a little... um... mostly).

It's really easy yet kind of hard to explain. Things ARE beginning to settle down to a general sense of normalcy.

 

It's not much of an exaggeration to say right now you are likely see to more of Japan on the TV and the internet than I do. My daughter is involved in some relief work/cleanup in the local community though so perhaps we could enlist her aid.

 

For the most part, much of life is returning to pre-disaster activities in northern Japan which brings about it's own unique difficulties. How does one return to normal after such devastation? That's not easy. Of course as you move south toward Sendai things start to get a little dicey. Some areas more than others have become very isolated communities. If you consider for instance that there is quite a bit of rough mountainous terrain with roads and bridges out or still unstable it can be hard to navigate into those areas. The Japanese certainly are resourceful though and these communities have proven quite good at fending for themselves with the limited amount of resources available to them.

[robcat2075]

That is quite interesting and eye-opening... the amount of 5Magnitude earthquakes in succession. Has this ever happened before in recorded history?

 

They've only been accurately recording earthquakes for about 100 years so the record is rather brief, but there have been more destructive earthquake/tsunami events:

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issu...rakatoa-tsunami

 

 

 

Highest wave ever: 1720 feet in Alaska in 1958!

[Gerry]

I started watching this but it was numbing after awhile. Frankly I can't even imagine that much turbulence in that short a time. Yes, too bad we can't harness it.