7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima and Miyagi (Japan)

Purgatory · 16 Mar 2022 at 17:06

https://twitter.com/x/status/1504140754801020929

Here we go again, not like there isn't enough going on in the world right now.

StriderX · 16 Mar 2022 at 17:07

Wonder if it's the big one or a prelude to a bigger one?

Purgatory · 16 Mar 2022 at 17:13

StriderX said:
Wonder if it's the big one or a prelude to a bigger one?

God knows, lets hope they don't have a tsunami after this or another quake that triggers one, that Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is still a mess from before and in the process of being decommissioned.

Fubsy · 16 Mar 2022 at 17:22

Godzilla?

Maybe he's sick of Putin's **** and gonna death beam him in the face.

More seriously, hopefully it's minor and nothing too serious.

arknor · 16 Mar 2022 at 17:27

I like the picture some of the newspapers online are running with.

Huge damage, how will this shop keeper ever clean up that mess :cry:

CaptainRAVE · 16 Mar 2022 at 17:46

We can’t seem to catch a break at the moment, although it’s a shame so much of it (not this obviously) is self inflicted.

Diddums · 16 Mar 2022 at 18:21

CaptainRAVE said:
We can’t seem to catch a break at the moment, although it’s a shame so much of it (not this obviously) is self inflicted.

I give humanity another 100 years before we're wiped off the face of the earth or at least walking around with personal geiger counters and collecting bottle caps. Or haz-mat suits.

jonneymendoza · 16 Mar 2022 at 18:25

Diddums said:
I give humanity another 100 years before we're wiped off the face of the earth or at least walking around with personal geiger counters and collecting bottle caps. Or haz-mat suits.

This!!!

GGizmo · 16 Mar 2022 at 18:43

Is it just me that thinks Japan is having a lot more earthquakes in recent years?

squerble · 16 Mar 2022 at 18:44

BowdonUK said:
Is it just me that thinks Japan is having a lot more earthquakes in recent years?

As with everything, the proliferation of the internet and amazing video cameras in our pockets means everything is just shared more.

Uther · 16 Mar 2022 at 18:58

squerble said:
As with everything, the proliferation of the internet and amazing video cameras in our pockets means everything is just shared more.

Yep, the worlds's always been a bit crap, but you wouldn't hear it about until the 9pm news or tomorrows paper. Now it's instant.

phonemonkey · 16 Mar 2022 at 19:14

Uther said:
Yep, the worlds's always been a bit crap, but you wouldn't hear it about until the 9pm news or tomorrows paper. Now it's instant.

Yup. and of course now news can be 24hr and be spread by less traditional methods it means we are aware of things we might have not heard a generation ago. Though given its affected Fukushima with its fairly recent problems with similar events I accept this is not likely to be something news editors of the past would have deemed unnewsworthy

delta0 · 16 Mar 2022 at 23:21

A Japanese friend said it knocked the power out in places. I’ve not heard of any other issues yet.

DJMK4 · 16 Mar 2022 at 23:37

Any active tsunamis being registered?

The rate of the one they had all those years ago was crazy. You can't believe how quickly water levels rise and destroys. Although that was a 9.1 I believe

Rroff · 16 Mar 2022 at 23:50

No tsunami - this one was fairly deep as well so not quite as bad as it could have been if it was shallower.

squerble · 17 Mar 2022 at 07:38

Rroff said:
No tsunami - this one was fairly deep as well so not quite as bad as it could have been if it was shallower.

There was a tsunami advisory for a few parts of the coast, and the water level did rise but it was less than 1m change so nothing like the horrors of last time.