Earthquake hits Japan

[Prime]

Tribble, why cross the road, you could get hit by a car?

Not having an earthquake is more serious in the long run. the longer you go without a quake or tremor, the more serious it will be when it hits.

[Siemens]

Not really, no.

[jee]

End of days my backside. I have to actually laugh at these nuts on Facebook going on about that. Plate tectonics have been around for millions of years yet now it's armageddon? Riiiiight...

I wonder if there will be dinosaurs again...

[KatrynKat]

Not really, no.

yes, really.... energy just keeps building up and building up and one day all this pent up energy is released and is more catastrophic than what it would have been if the energy was released in earlier....

[CapNemo]

Depends on the tectonics of the area as well KK

[KatrynKat]

yip.... there are many different ways that plates move past/over each other which will influence it....

[Siemens]

Not really, no.

yes, really.... energy just keeps building up and building up and one day all this pent up energy is released and is more catastrophic than what it would have been if the energy was released in earlier....

Japan had numerous earthquakes before the big on struck. Also other small earthquakes has known to have happened without earthquakes prior for years. Meaning that the longer you go without and earthquake does NOT indicate the size of the earthquake. It's completely irrelevant. However it can happen that a massive earthquake does happen out of the blue it's just not necessarily always related to time.

[Tribble]

Tribble, why cross the road, you could get hit by a car?

Not having an earthquake is more serious in the long run. the longer you go without a quake or tremor, the more serious it will be when it hits.

Only if I am not careful

[GreyWolf]

Just wanted to add my 2c on the Fukushima plant. Basically there is so much BS flying around the media, 2 weeks worth of washing wont get the stink off.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31 ... _of_facts/

Check links at the bottom for more.

I am so pissed off about how the media has treated this whole thing. Nuclear power for the WIN!

[Prime]

Just wanted to add my 2c on the Fukushima plant. Basically there is so much BS flying around the media, 2 weeks worth of washing wont get the stink off.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31 ... _of_facts/

Check links at the bottom for more.

I am so pissed off about how the media has treated this whole thing. Nuclear power for the WIN!

Yeah well, whatever sells papers

Carl Hiaasen would have a field day with this brand of journalism

Depends on the tectonics of the area as well KK

Yes, somewhat. Fact still remains, prolonged earthquake free periods are worse in the long run.

Not really, no.

yes, really.... energy just keeps building up and building up and one day all this pent up energy is released and is more catastrophic than what it would have been if the energy was released in earlier....

Japan had numerous earthquakes before the big on struck. Also other small earthquakes has known to have happened without earthquakes prior for years. Meaning that the longer you go without and earthquake does NOT indicate the size of the earthquake. It's completely irrelevant. However it can happen that a massive earthquake does happen out of the blue it's just not necessarily always related to time.

See how many plate boundaries are around japan. There are convergent and transform boundaries there.

There may have been numerous earthquakes in japan over the years, but because of the complex boundaries in that region, the plates might be stuck at one site and shifting at another site. There are at least 3 plates in that area. The Eurasian plate, the Philipine plate and the Australian plate. Earthquakes require a stress build up in the crust, is that plate had been moving smoothly along, there wouldn't have been a stress build up of the Magnitude that Japan experienced. It can't happen out of the blue.

You might also like to read up on earthquake storms. And the The Mogi doughnut Hypothesis.

And just for the record, the Moment magnitude scale (Formerly known as the Richter scale) measures magnitude, the Mercalli scale measures intensity. They aren't qualified in terms of time or frequency. The MMS is energy released and the Mercalli scale is destruction (which is not exactly a mathematical quantity). Japan was lower on the intensity scale than lower magnitude scales in other regions.

[Tribble]

Interesting.

[Anakha56]

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp ... photos.htm

Some hi-res photos of the damaged nuclear plant...

[Stuart]

So they found a dog at sea yesterday on top of a roof. Probably washed out in the tsunami. It was picked up by a Japanese ship.

Don't the Japanese eat dogs?

[Siemens]

So they found a dog at sea yesterday on top of a roof. Probably washed out in the tsunami. It was picked up by a Japanese ship.

Don't the Japanese eat dogs?

Don't South Africans eat human body parts as medicine?

[Stuart]

So they found a dog at sea yesterday on top of a roof. Probably washed out in the tsunami. It was picked up by a Japanese ship.

Don't the Japanese eat dogs?

Don't South Africans eat human body parts as medicine?

Um, I don't know. Do you?

[Prime]

No, I think that's the chinese

[Siemens]

No, there is just a tiny amount of those ultra traditional healers. The same applies for the weird stuff that Japanese eat such as dogs, dolphins, whales. Get what I'm trying to say? It's silly to stereotype a whole nation based on barely a fraction of its populations habits. And if a nation can be stereotyped in such a way then we should be last to speak some of our people also eat dogs and dont forget the rhino horn powder. I think I'm just wasting my time because I think you already know all this and maybe you're just trollling.

[Stuart]

No, I think that's the chinese

Japanese, Chinese - same difference.

Like America and Canada.

Australia and New Zealand.

Ireland and Iceland.

[Prime]

No, I think that's the chinese

Japanese, Chinese - same difference.

Like America and Canada.

Australia and New Zealand.

Ireland and Iceland.

Americans don't sit in the dark and scream when the lights go out

[Bladerunner]

No, I think that's the chinese

Japanese, Chinese - same difference.

You'd be amazed. Even between Chinese and Taiwanese who are essentially the same people there are many, many differences in terms of their culture, and especially their language: alphabet and pronunciations.

[Tribble]

Naaah you don't eat what you rescue - you don't want the bad press

[Stuart]

Who says the press has to know? The press is too busy sensationalising the nuclear leak to worry about having dogs over for dinner.

[Siemens]

This isn't really the place for jokes guys :/

[Stuart]

Tokyo - A dog rescued from the rooftop of a house swept to sea by Japan's March 11 tsunami was reunited on Monday with her owner, who recognised her in television news coverage of the dog's rescue by coast guards.

The two-year-old dog survived for three weeks in a house adrift in an island of debris nearly 2km from the shore.

On Friday, coast guards flying over the area to search for survivors spotted the medium-sized brown dog on the roof of the floating house. The aerial view was broadcast repeatedly, as was footage of the ensuing rescue, and the dog being fed and hugged by coast guards afterwards.

The owner saw the footage in her own partially damaged home in Kesennuma, a coastal city badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that followed it, NHK public television said.

Recognising the dog as the family's missing pet, the woman sought her out in the animal shelter in another part of Miyagi prefecture.

“I saw the rescue on the news, and knew it was her. I knew her rightaway, from her face,” the woman, whose name was not given, told NHK. - Reuters

[Prime]

No, I think that's the chinese

Japanese, Chinese - same difference.

You'd be amazed. Even between Chinese and Taiwanese who are essentially the same people there are many, many differences in terms of their culture, and especially their language: alphabet and pronunciations.

ya, I know. The taiwanese hate the Chinese.