|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 16, 2016 14:13:30 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Apr 16, 2016 17:04:48 GMT -5
Fortunately, our Brinky friends are all safe, atm. upload a gif
|
|
|
Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Apr 16, 2016 17:06:32 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 16, 2016 17:50:25 GMT -5
A couple of stories from local reporters give more feel for what it means to be in Kumamoto where the shaking has been severe. Japan left reeling by 7.3 magnitude earthquake By Julian Ryall, Tokyo for the Telegraph Media Group 16 April 2016 • 6:43PM telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/15/tsunami-warning-issued-in-japan-after-70-magnitude-earthquake/"Things were being thrown around the house and I couldn't stand up. Outside, walls and houses were coming down and, because we all thought we had gone through the worst of it, people have been affected mentally very badly".Japan earthquake: Thousands spend night in cold and wet BBC News Asia Section, 1 hour ago bbc.com/news/world-asia-36065334Tens of thousands of people have spent a cold and wet night in temporary shelters...
More than 240,000 people were urged to evacuate the area amid fears heavy rain could bring landslides and further damage, local media reported.
There is concern for dozens of people feared trapped under rubble.
This is yesterday and last night's news. It's Sunday morning now with the chance of rain at around 10%. Aid workers are getting organized, and things should be looking up just a little. Monday might bring more rain. Bad to be out in, and worse if a soggy mountainside above you decides to move downward. There are continuing worries about aftershocks, especially because epicenters have been calculated as relatively shallow. When the underlying stresses are assumed to be many miles deeper down, it makes people doubt that the recent shocks have bought very much time until the next one.
|
|
|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 16, 2016 19:26:59 GMT -5
This series of quakes is officially named the "Heisei 28 Kumamoto Earthquake", or "2016 Kumamoto Earthquake". 2016 is the 28th year of the Heisei Period. 〜 The Japanese National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology lets you take emergency information from the Japan Meteorological Society, and match it with their database of active geological faults. The results show up graphically on top of a Google Maps image. Info might be as old as two weeks. In this case, it's only hours old. gbank.gsj.jp/activefault/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search_no=j024&version_no=1&search_mode=2If you visit the link, you get a map window centered on Japan's Median Tectonic Line, where it passes Mt. Fuji. The MTL is that long, red ant trail of geologic faults running SW to NE. They follow one of the tectonic plate boundaries that are responsible for Japan being higher than the bottom of the Pacific ocean. Drag the map up and to the right, you see the latest recorded information for the island of Kyushu. Scale is in kilometers. The spectral color of a data point is the calculated depth of the hypocenter, and the diameter of the bubble is the magnitude of its seismic moment. Lighter red does not mean lesser intensity! Any red means a depth of ~20km ±10km — the "20km" range. Size of the circle gives you a visual on the magnitude of seismic moment (MMS) which is how they describe quake intensity in Japan. You'll be misled if you try to compare sizes of circles, though. MMS is another logarithmic number scale, so an M7.0 quake releases 32x more energy than an M6.0 quake, and 1,000x > than an M5.0). To show that accurately as 2D circles on a map, you'd need to draw an M7 circle 10x wider than an M5. That's impractical to do, here the difference is more like 3x. Up in Oita, they were recording shocks in the M4 to M5.3 range. Not history-making. Kumamoto has had clusters. The first really bad one was M6.4, the latest more like an M7, and that's as big as they have ever recorded. At this point, with everything SNAFU, even a small temblor can kill more people and bring more misery. Observers said the geographical displacement has been about 5 meters. That's 1000x more than the entire fault is thought to slip in a typical year.
|
|
|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 18, 2016 4:34:20 GMT -5
Everybody responds in their own way. This way is kind of admirable — a Indiegogo fundraiser. 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Relief FundMicaela Anne, Organizer Volunteer, Fukuokagenerosity.com/volunteer-fundraising/2016-kumamoto-earthquake-relief-fundKumamoto was where I started my YouTube Channel. My first video that I ever uploaded, was of me riding my bicycle along the twisting streets to a Belle And Sebastian song...She means this: youtu.be/lG3GnJH_e-oMicaela Anne is collecting money for disaster relief and delivering it to government aid agencies. Pretty much with her own two hands, which means her overhead is lower than the Red Cross, if not her expertise. They don't need more expertise in Kumamoto. They need more water, socks, and disposable diapers. So, not bad.
|
|
|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 19, 2016 17:20:46 GMT -5
Lucky break. The rows still align pretty well for harvest time. Now people are saying that the second, 16x stronger quake in Kumamoto occurred along a different fault, and was a kind domino effect of the earlier one. Along the 50-mile-long Futagawa fault line, they observed a vertical shift of around 70cm and a horizontal movement of around 1.8m at the surface. But part of the fault slid by as much as 3.5m, they said. NHK News photo of a rice field atop the Futagawa faultAlthough this quake released 40% more energy than the Great Hanshin in 1995, the Median Tectonic Line has stayed quiet and nothing's gone north from Oita over the Bungo Channel... which has been one worry.
|
|
|
Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Apr 19, 2016 21:02:50 GMT -5
Baby girl saved from a collapsed house, no word on her parents, who are likely dead under the same said home. post a picture
|
|
|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 20, 2016 0:23:50 GMT -5
...no word on her parents... Puts a slightly different spin on the first and best feel-good story to come out of Kumamoto lately. As of Sunday, these guys were still together in Mashiki, although their house wasn'tNews photo from Reuters at The Express.co.uk
|
|
|
Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Apr 20, 2016 23:33:57 GMT -5
...no word on her parents... Puts a slightly different spin on the first and best feel-good story to come out of Kumamoto lately. As of Sunday, these guys were still together in Mashiki, although their house wasn'tNews photo from Reuters at The Express.co.ukI'm only speculating on the baby's parents but, it seems unlikely that they would have left the baby alone, during a quake.
|
|
|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 20, 2016 23:39:07 GMT -5
I'm only speculating on the baby's parents but, it seems unlikely that they would have left the baby alone, during a quake. But it's kind of worrisome if there's been no followup story about reunion. We can't know if we're not told, but if the 'rents got out ahead of their child the photos would more likely have been a baby in a different pair of arms... It's one story out of hundreds, and hundreds more they could tell us in Ecuador.
|
|
|
Post by lazybone712 on Apr 24, 2016 16:11:35 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by thegl0r on Apr 24, 2016 21:25:08 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 25, 2016 2:06:30 GMT -5
It does seem like the people who accuse her of enabling gangsters ( !) ought to realize she's working at a risk to her own safety. I don't think there's any way a crime syndicate could appreciate what she's doing.
|
|
|
Post by tangerinesun on Apr 26, 2016 22:20:25 GMT -5
Purple lights on Tokyo Tower Maki was not the only one who got faked out. The Tokyo Tower management was hosting a VIP full moon party and they were illuminated for that. There was no thought of Prince, but when they found out what people were assuming they were all, sure, go right on and believe whatever you like, we're not going to tell you you're wrong.
|
|