Japan earthquake kills nine; more aftershocks expected

[Disir]

At least nine people died when an earthquake shook southwestern Japan's Kyushu island late Thursday, the Kumamoto Prefecture disaster management office said.
Search crews scrambled to dig through rubble looking for people trapped under collapsed buildings.
The magnitude-6.2 quake struck near Ueki, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Dozens of smaller aftershocks followed.
"The ground shook for about 20 seconds before the 6.2-magnitude quake stopped," witness Lim Ting Jie said.
Japan earthquake kills 9 - CNN.com

That's a pretty good little amount of damage.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Just happened a few minutes ago. 7.1 is pretty heavy duty

Breaking news on Strong earthquake in Japan, April 16, 2016

 

[Alex.]

Japan earthquake kills 9; baby rescued from rubble - CNN.com

Pretty scary

 

[pwjohn]

Ouch; to bad for them.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Tsunami warnings ?

 

[JustAnotherNut]

There have been plenty of shaking around the world in the last 24 hours. Didn't Japan just have an earthquake 6.+? the other day?


Live Earthquakes Map

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Tsunami warnings ?

http://ptwc.weather.gov/text.php?id=pacific.TIBPAC.2016.04.15.1637

No tsunami warnings

 

[bucs90]

Terrible news. Hope the damage isn't severe.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Damn global warming

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Damn global warming

What else could explain it?

 

[Pogo]

Damn global warming

What else could explain it?

Global settling.

 

[Harry Dresden]

i have been in a 6.7 in 94 and that was an Adrenalin rush....i can imagine a 7 pointer.... ....

 

[Hossfly]

Damn global warming

And damn the frackers!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Damn global warming

And damn the frackers!

Freaking frackers!!!!!!

 

[Silhouette]

(CNN)Japan has restarted its second nuclear reactor since the Fukushima disaster in 2011 shut down the country's nuclear energy program.

The Kyushu Electric Power Company told CNN that it restarted the Dai-ni reactor at Sendai Nuclear Power Plant....The plant, in the country's southern Kagoshima prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu, also hosts the only other reactor to have been restarted since the disaster, which saw much of Fukushima prefecture, north of the capital, Tokyo, evacuated in 2011. Breaking news on Strong earthquake in Japan, April 16, 2016

 

[Hossfly]

Damn global warming

And damn the frackers!

Freaking frackers!!!!!!

All joking aside, earthquakes are no joke. I was in my sisters house near the DC beltway when the quake struck and everything in the house was thrown on the floor. There's no defense except to get outside in the open. You can lay on the ground and feel every movement of the earth. Scary.

 

[Silhouette]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/world/asia/japan-earthquake.html?_r=0
April 14, 2016 TOKYO — A powerful earthquake struck the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu on Thursday, killing nine people, collapsing roads and buildings, and knocking out power, officials said.

According to the government, some 1,000 people had been treated for injuries caused by the magnitude 6.2 quake, which struck just before 9:30 p.m. and was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks.

It's almost like the Spirit is trying to tell Japan and the world something....The one place they dared to open up a new reactor after Fukushima...Kyushu Island.. The nuclear power option is dead. Active volcanism exists everywhere in Japan, even Kyushu, and because of this instability and also resource of geothermal steam powered turbines (instead of nuclear steam powered turbines) the UN should step in and make the construction or operation of nuclear power plants around active faults or volcanism illegal.

The West Coast of the US has had its fishing decimated. Fish are showing up radioactive from Alaska to Mexico from the effluent Tepco has to keep pumping into the ocean at Fukushima, forever. We are on the brink folks. This may be our last wakeup call. Or it may be too late already..

August 12, 2015
(CNN)Japan has restarted its second nuclear reactor since the Fukushima disaster in 2011 shut down the country's nuclear energy program.

The Kyushu Electric Power Company told CNN that it restarted the Dai-ni reactor at Sendai Nuclear Power Plant....The plant, in the country's southern Kagoshima prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu, also hosts the only other reactor to have been restarted since the disaster, which saw much of Fukushima prefecture, north of the capital, Tokyo, evacuated in 2011. Japan restarts first nuclear reactor since Fukushima - CNN.com

As of June 2015, the radiation in the Pacific Ocean reached the US West Coast; the seafood you’ve been eating from the Pacific ocean is loaded with Cesium-137 and Strontium-90....The radiation in the fish is so terrible that wild-caught Alaskan Salmon, Pacific Herring, and Canadian whitefish are being found bloody, with cancerous tumors throughout their bodies....300 tons of this radioactive water has been seeping into the Pacific Ocean EVERY DAY since March 15, 2011. Nothing has stopped it, and the flow continues to this very day, October 31, 2015. We’re Eating Fukushima Radiation; Bloody Cancerous Tumors in Fish & Seafood - DavidWolfe.com

 

[Care4all]

Tsunami warnings ?

http://ptwc.weather.gov/text.php?id=pacific.TIBPAC.2016.04.15.1637

No tsunami warnings

this from your link.... looks like there is a tsunami advisory for the immediate coast nearby but NOT for the rest of the islands, if I am understanding this correctly?


PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS - FROM JMA
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* MAGNITUDE 7.1
* ORIGIN TIME 1625 UTC APR 15 2016
* COORDINATES 32.8 NORTH 130.8 EAST
* DEPTH 10 KM / 6 MILES
* LOCATION KYUSHU JAPAN


EVALUATION
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* AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.1 OCCURRED IN
KYUSHU, JAPAN AT 1625 UTC ON FRIDAY APRIL 15 2016.

* JAPAN HAS ISSUED A TSUNAMI ADVISORY FOR THEIR NEARBY COASTS.

* BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA... THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT
FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE FOR ANY OTHER COASTS.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Damn global warming

And damn the frackers!

Freaking frackers!!!!!!

All joking aside, earthquakes are no joke. I was in my sisters house near the DC beltway when the quake struck and everything in the house was thrown on the floor. There's no defense except to get outside in the open. You can lay on the ground and feel every movement of the earth. Scary.

I realize that...but it was hard to resist since I read some moonbat's article how earthquakes can be due to globull warming

 

[Silhouette]

Am looking for photos of the nuclear plant on Kyushu within the last 12 hours or so...can't find any so far..