MSNBC Breaking: Moderately Strong Quake Hits North Japan

Keith just said it on his show... He didn't give details.

Nothing on CNN yet. Did anyone else hear that?

Reuters link: Moderately Strong Quake Hits North Japan

I changed the title of the thread to "Moderately Strong"

Am monitoring for developments.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/

I felt it, so I know it happened. :P

Hoping all is well. Japan has so many devastating earthquakes. I have lots of friends in Tokyo. Thanks for letting me know - I can always count on DU to keep me posted on the real news.

I was fearing another Kobe-style disaster.

A strong earthquake occurred at 01:06:33 (UTC) on Friday, October 31, 2003. The magnitude 6.7 event has been located OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00000065.htm

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TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER
0322 PM HST 30 OCT 2003

TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. NO ACTION REQUIRED.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 0307 PM HST 30 OCT 2003
COORDINATES - 37.9 NORTH 142.6 EAST
LOCATION - OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN
MAGNITUDE - 6.7 MOMENT
MAGNITUDE - 6.6 RICHTER

EVALUATION

BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS
NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII. REPEAT. A
DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS NOT EXPECTED AND THERE IS NO
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.

2


TO ALL TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION MESSAGE
WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED 10/30/2003 AT 0010 UTC

...THIS IS AN INFORMATION MESSAGE...

EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE - 3.7
LOCATION - 62.0N 148.1W - 40 MILES NE OF PALMER-AK.
80 MILES NE OF ANCHORAGE-AK.
18 MILES DEEP
TIME - 1507 AST 10/29/2003
1607 PST 10/29/2003
0007 UTC 10/30/2003

THE EARTHQUAKE WAS FELT II IN PALMER, AK

EVALUATION
THE MAGNITUDE AND LOCATION ARE SUCH THAT A TSUNAMI WILL NOT
BE GENERATED. THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED.

THE LOCATION AND MAGNITUDE ARE BASED ON PRELIMINARY INFORMATION.
WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER -
HTTP://WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV. FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE ISSUED
BY THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - GOLDEN CO -
HTTP://WWWNEIC.CR.USGS.GOV - OR THE ALASKA EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION
CENTER - UAF GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE - FAIRBANKS ALASKA -
HTTP://WWW.AEIC.ALASKA.EDU/.

It's tsunami time.

Depending on how much water was displaced, and how the floor of the ocean deformed, it could travel east quite a distance. .

4 or 5 times a year and I don't recall ever being there without feeling at least 1 "oss-kweek" as my friend Shimoji used to pronounce it. The only time I was alarmed was one night in my room on the 35th floor of the Tokyo Prince hotel...it rattled the bottles of Kirin pretty loudly in the mini-fridge. :D

This makes the third large quake there since the summer. I felt it where I was, more than 100 miles south of the epicenter.