Two strong quakes hit Japan

[GoddessOfGuinness]

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/05/japan.quake.ap/index.html

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Two strong earthquakes, one magnitude 6.8 and the second magnitude 7.3, rattled western Japan within hours of each other Sunday night, injuring four people and shaking buildings in Tokyo.

Damage and injuries appeared to be limited because both quakes were far off Japan's coast, and the region shaken most strongly by them was a sparsely populated rural area, Wakayama, 280 miles west of Tokyo.

[soothsayer]

1. Godzilla! He's angry about the radiation we recently released over

Japan again (what was it that vaporized recently, releasing strontium or whatnot?)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Here's a Yahoo/Reuters link

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=731&e=3&u=/nm/20040905/wl_nm/quake_japan_dc

National broadcaster NHK said at least 28 people had been injured in the latest quake, which hit just before midnight.

[TahitiNut]

3. Ooohh... 7.3 is big.

If that hit a populated epicenter, the destruction would be bad.

[TahitiNut]

4. It's being rated at 7.1, now (still big) - offshore of Honshu

MAP 7.1 2004/09/05 14:57:19 33.154 137.041 10.0 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

MAP 7.0 2004/09/05 10:07:09 33.091 136.627 19.8 NEAR S. COAST OF WESTERN HONSHU, JAPAN



http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.html

[allemand]

5. Thank God it only hit the seabed. Twice.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. This puts things in perspective...

[Arioch]

7. We just left...

My wife and I came back from vaca on the 30th.
We had a good 4.3 in the middle of the night the week before and lots of little daily quakes.
We were at her parent's home in Kamakura most of the time.
I hope this is the last of them for a while...
All the typhoons plus volcanos erupting and earthquakes...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Glad you're back in one piece!

And welcome to DU! :hi: