Massive 7.9 in Japan- just in- tsunami warning issued

[Blavatsky]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0001xgp.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

7.9
Date-Time	Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:23 UTC Friday, March 11, 2011 at 02:46:23 PM at epicenter
Location	38.322°N, 142.369°E
Depth	24.4 km (15.2 miles) set by location program
Region	NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances	130 km (81 miles) E (86°) from Sendai, Honshu, Japan 179 km (111 miles) ENE (68°) from Fukushima, Honshu, Japan 188 km (117 miles) SE (145°) from Morioka, Honshu, Japan 376 km (234 miles) NE (37°) from TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 13.5 km (8.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	NST=350, Nph=351, Dmin=416.3 km, Rmss=1.46 sec, Gp= 29°, M-type="moment" magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=A
Source	U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Event ID	usc0001xgp

[Blavatsky]

The impact of the earthquake that hit Japan this morning shifted the earth’s rotation axis is nearly 10 inches. It’s the preliminary result of studies carried out by INGV, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.

According to Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA, the Earth’s rotation rate is increased causing a shortening of 1.6 microseconds duration of the day.

http://lightworkers.org/blog/126810/axis-shift-and-volcanic-eruptio...

[HeartNsoul]

YouTube video-Japan Tsumami hits Bay area, Marin County (California) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc4CwxC8FQs

[Blavatsky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp-39kqACo4&feature=player_embedded

 

nice clip of unfolding early warning system in operation

[HeartNsoul]

Map of damage from Japan earthquake

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/newsgraphics/2011/0311-japan-...

[Alex Cortes]

Its the sign I have been waiting for.

[Wm]

There are some at SIUE that is calling it a 9.1Mag just said on Fox news @ STL

[Coedwig the Druid]

Of course now we have heard that the EQ has been upgraded to an 8.9 which was followed by a tsunami.  There are tsunami warnings up and down the west coasts of the Americas and Hawaii!  Pray for our Japanese brothers and sisters!  For many of us on this site this was one of our early warnings for our moves to our safe places.

Blessings,

Coedwig/Steve

[Morris Levin]

This is being looked at as "A great quake".

 

“Japan’s earthquake will be considered a great quake,” said Dale Grant, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. “Japan has never seen this before.”

Any quake above an 8 in magnitude is considered a great quake, Grant said. Damage can span from hundreds to thousands of miles.

The quake was centered about 80 miles east of Japan.

A few days earlier, Japan was hit with a 7.2 earthquake that many are saying was the precursor to today’s quake, he said.

“A 7.2 quake has 80 or 90 times less energy than an 8.9 quake,” he said.

As of 3 a.m., there were at least 12 aftershocks following the earthquake, with the highest aftershocks measuring 7.1 and 6.8, Grant said.

“This is what we’d expecte from an 8.9 earthquake.”

The greater concern is the tsunami that was triggered by the quake, he said. “Tsunamis can travel up to 450 miles per hour,” he said.

“Warnings have been issued for the Hawaiian Islands,” he said. “We’ll probably see an impact.”

The biggest earthquakes in recent history occurred last year in Chile at 8.8 and in 2004 in Indonesia at 9.1, Grant said.

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[Morris Levin]

This is showing the swam of quakes that happen today sorted by magnitude within time.

 

 

 

[Morris Levin]

Yes, there is 2/3 white background and the effect is global and not localized to the Japan area showing a major wobble suddenly occurred.  Two quakes back to back within a week or so but shallow in depth.  Christchurch and then this.  When these happen in the ocean away from land masses or unpopulated areas not much is said about them, but that has now changed.