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Moderate quake felt in Tokyo, but causes no damage

National Jul. 16, 2011 - 06:37AM JST ( 30 )

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miamumJul. 16, 2011 - 08:13AM JST

We are quite high up and it didn`t feel very moderate to me. It was a shindo 4 here. It just seemed to come from nowhere. A shindo 7 must be terrifying.
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NetNinjaJul. 16, 2011 - 08:25AM JST

Getting closer.
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miamumJul. 16, 2011 - 10:14AM JST

Seems to be, doesnt it netninja? I texted my friend who is a single mother straight after to make sure she was ok with her kids, and she said she feels like a big one is coming. Its kind of unnerving.
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rainman1Jul. 16, 2011 - 10:24AM JST

On what 'basis' does anybody think a big quake is any closer? It could come in the next minute, hour, month or decade from now. How can you 'feel' a big quake is about to happen? Everybody is still (rightly so) on edge from March. Please explain.
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KwaabishJul. 16, 2011 - 10:30AM JST

It had been a while since the "Yurekuru" early warning alarm went off....
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HimajinJul. 16, 2011 - 11:03AM JST

Actually, the Tohoku quake after-effects historically have gone two ways...down the coast to Shizuoka, or across to Niigata and up north to Hokkaido. It seems to me that it's the second pattern we're seeing now for the most part. If you go onto the JMA's earthquake site and click back through the past few weeks, you see small to medium quake markers going Fukishima-Fukushima-Fukushima-Niigata-Fukushima quite often. 3-4 quakes in Tohoku, one on the Niigata side. It looks like ping-pong! The quakes on the Niigata side have really kicked up since March.

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/
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cleoJul. 16, 2011 - 11:25AM JST

I heard an explanation that said one immediate result of the 3/11 quake (apart from the tsunami) was that it released pressure on a major faultline in Niigata, causing the M6.7 quake there on 3/12. They are linked.
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globalwatcherJul. 16, 2011 - 11:56AM JST

Himajin and Cleo, thank you for wonderful observations. Very interesting.
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ihavegreatlegsJul. 16, 2011 - 12:16PM JST

Himajin..cough...Cleo cough....Hearsay is not fact. Himajin, please post some of the links.
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YuriOtaniJul. 16, 2011 - 12:23PM JST

I felt it too in Fussa, ick hate earthquakes.
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PapaEshuJul. 16, 2011 - 12:42PM JST

Two words people: Jim Berkland. If you haven't read his stuff and are spouting off say "how is the big one any closer" implying people cant see earthquakes coming.. you need to shut your mouth for an afternoon and read "the man who predicts earthquakes".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Berkland
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smithinjapanJul. 16, 2011 - 12:42PM JST

There were even a couple of magnitude 3s in the southern part of Kyoto prefecture yesterday morning at 10:30 a.m. and 10:35 respectively (might be off by a few minutes). Although the building I am in is so rickety it felt like a 3, reports say it was only a shindo 1 where I am. I can't even imagine what a 9.0 is like. One thing for me that's kind of scary is that even if it's only a tiny one here I'm always worried that it means another massive one up north or somewhere else.
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miamumJul. 16, 2011 - 12:43PM JST

On what 'basis' does anybody think a big quake is any closer? It could come in the next minute, hour, month or decade from now. How can you 'feel' a big quake is about to happen?

I don`t know rainmain - I think as you say everyone is on edge, but if you really want to know that badly I can text her and ask her why she feels like that?

It feels to me like the quakes are coming down towards Tokyo from the north because we have had epicentres around Tochigi, Iberaki and Chiba recently, so coming down the coast from Miyagi and Fukushima. I don`t know an awful lot about the tectonic geographhy of this area at all though if I am honest so it could just be my imagination!
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OsakadazJul. 16, 2011 - 01:07PM JST

Kansai rarely has quakes but this week there was one in Nara/Mie and one in Kyoto.
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JechanJul. 16, 2011 - 01:21PM JST

you need to shut your mouth for an afternoon and read "the man who predicts earthquakes".

yeah, coz he predicited the march 11 quake didnt he... or he told people he knew about it AFTER it happened. thanks for posting a link to such an accurate and totally logical source on quake prediction. mr berkland is a hack.
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DisillusionedJul. 16, 2011 - 01:34PM JST

yep! was a pretty violent shaker in ichikawa. I had the door open ready to go.
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buggerlugsJul. 16, 2011 - 01:51PM JST

Well I disagree with the headline!! It definitely caused minor damage to my dry cleaning bill!!
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choiwaruoyajiJul. 16, 2011 - 02:02PM JST

The Tokyo near-field earthquake is the one we have to be very concerned about now.

(Tokyo chokka-gata jishin)

It's coming, and IMHO much sooner than anyone thinks.

It will change our lives forever... get ready for it.
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cleoJul. 16, 2011 - 02:05PM JST

legs - bad cough you've got there girl.

Hearsay? The Japanese government seem to think it's more than hearsay. http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/kan/topics/201106/pdf/chapter_iii-1.pdf (see P21 fig. 111-1-13, Induced earthquakes by the mainshock)

and

http://unit.aist.go.jp/actfault-eq/Tohoku/nairiku/index_e.html#nagano 'These earthquakes may have been triggered by large variations in inland stress fields due to the giant event off the Pacific Coast of the Tohoku District.'
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HimajinJul. 16, 2011 - 02:59PM JST

Himajin..cough...Cleo cough....Hearsay is not fact. Himajin, please post some of the links.

You really have to see about that cough ;-P No links, but I watched a 3-hour special on all the faults in that area, and they detailed the past history of the area (past 1,000 years) and that was one of the things they said, was that this quake triggers another large one either further down near Shizuoka, or in the area between Niigata and Hokkaido.

Kansai has been active since January, when there was a quake that went straight up from Osaka Wan up the mountain to the Higashi-Nada area. I rather sharp jolt, from what I hear from those living there. We just got the sound of it up here in Kita-ku. The Kobe City side rumbles along with Osaka Wan, Wakayama and that area, Kita-ku shakes most when there's a quake in Kyoto Minami.
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nanakochanJul. 16, 2011 - 03:06PM JST

I wonder how much damage Tohoku got from 9M earthquake itself (no tsunami counted). How many houses collapsed? How many commercial building were damaged? Almost all things were swept away by tsunami and must be difficult to calculate the damage by earthquake itself. I just want to know what damage Sendai got from the earthquake.
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johnnybravoJul. 16, 2011 - 03:59PM JST

more bad news http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_11.html
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FoxieJul. 16, 2011 - 04:24PM JST

To put everybody at ease, I recommend you to watch this. You will get decent explanations about earthquakes. A real eye-opener.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFop23xWUA&feature=player_embedded#at=11
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HimajinJul. 16, 2011 - 06:06PM JST

nanakochan, if you look at videos on YouTube of the incoming tsunami, you can see most of the houses still standing.
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nanakochanJul. 16, 2011 - 07:01PM JST

@himajin Yes. I saw some videos, too and saw most houses seemed to be ok. The shindo was 7 there, right? So… residential areas in Kanto should be ok with shindo 6-7, I hope… On the other hand, in metropolitan Tokyo, I don’t know what damage would be like. Tokyo could be hit by tsunami? I heard one thousand years ago, tsunami hit Kamakura Daibutsu which was inside the temple before but surroundings were swept away.
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globalwatcherJul. 16, 2011 - 11:28PM JST

Thank you everyone for the info. I am reading them very carefully. They are all resourceful!
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Elbuda MexicanoJul. 17, 2011 - 06:43AM JST

My family and I were out having dinner, suddenly the entire restaurant became very, very QUITE, and people whispering, ARE, ARE yureteinai??, wait, wait, is it shaking? and yes, it was, you could sense every one was in if it gets any stronger, we are running the heck out of this building kind of vibes, even one of the cooks at BIG BOY came out to check on us and apologize for this incident, like if the quake was his fault?? Thank god it was just a small quake! Amigos, better be prepared for the next big one with enough water etc..you know, just in case.
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johnnybravoJul. 17, 2011 - 01:03PM JST

Hey Elbuda. I would be careful what you eat out there. Cesium seasoned food isn't good for the intestines..
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rainman1Jul. 18, 2011 - 10:36AM JST

@johnnybravo: Point taken, but then you should be directing that comment at JT in whole. I would be pretty sure that 70% of people ate out last night being a holiday today and all that. Elbuda hasn't indicated where he eated. what he was eating or if he had checked the source of food first, which he may well have done, so thats a pretty wide of the mark comment to make and not really what people need to hear, is it?
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HimajinJul. 18, 2011 - 12:30PM JST

I heard one thousand years ago, tsunami hit Kamakura Daibutsu

Really........good lord, that's frightening!