Another quake
August 11, 2009
Following the pretty strong quake that hit the Tokyo area, there was another shaker this morning in Shizuoka. At 5:07am, a 6.6 on the Richter, or a 6-Weak on the Japanese system, struck off the coast of Shizuoka. In Osaka, it registered a 3 on the Japanese system. We were sleeping of course but I’m a very light sleeper and I woke up almost immediately. The building swayed for I guess 20 seconds or so.
Turning on the TV, information began flooding in. Japan has in place a very fast network of earthquake information. Almost simultaneously, the quake’s point of origin and magnitude are popped up on screen, followed by breaking news reports, and then in a couple of minutes, followed by tsunami warnings. Finally, video clips from the various news stations come in showing how the quake looked in their offices – usually they just show some lights or signs swaying.
Anyway, there might be reports of injuries coming in later.
Now that I’m awake, I doubt I will be able to sleep again. I hate quakes.
August 13th, 2009 at 09:50
Another one! Didn’t feel this though.
M6.5 quake jolts Hachijojima Island, south of Tokyo
Thursday 13th August, 08:26 AM JST
TOKYO —
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 jolted Hachijojima Island, some 280 kilometers south of Tokyo, on Thursday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The 7:49 a.m. earthquake measured a lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 on Hachijojima Island and 4 on Aogashima Island, south of Hachijojima, the agency said.
The quake originated some 40 kilometers below sea level off eastern Hachijojima, it said. The quake was also felt in such places as Tokyo as well as Fukushima, Chiba, Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures.