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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Series of quakes hit off Japan disaster zone |
| 2011-09-17 |
| TOKYO — A strong 6.6-magnitude undersea quake and a series of aftershocks hit off the coast of Japan’s Honshu island Saturday, not far from the area ravaged by a huge March quake and tsunami, geologists said. mThere were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and no widespread tsunami warning, although the initial earthquake was followed by five more quakes of magnitude five or above, one of them measuring 6.2. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the first, 36.2-kilometre (22.6-mile) deep quake hit 108 kilometres east-south-east of the coastal town of Hachinohe, 574 kilometres from Tokyo, at 4:26 am (1926 GMT Friday). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that “no destructive widespread tsunami risk exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data”. But it said that quakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis. “Authorities in the region of the epicentre should be aware of this,” the centre said in a statement. It said the initial quake jolted Iwate prefecture, an area badly hit by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that left almost 20,000 dead or missing and sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. The 6.6-magnitude quake was followed by two smaller magnitude-five tremors within an hour in the same area east of Hachinohe. The fourth quake struck at 7:08 am (2108 GMT Friday), with a magnitude of 6.2 at a depth of 20.2 kilometres, 137 kilometres east-south-east of Hachinohe. Again, no widespread tsunami warning was issued. During the next two hours there were two more magnitude-five tremors nearby, the second one with its epicentre only five kilometres deep, the USGS said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Wasn't this predicted late last week by some Japanese scientists??? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2011-09-17 02:34 |
| #1 Prolly due to recent CMES - lots of skyballs + mini/micro-tectonic motions around Agana + oer Guam-WESTPAC. Ditto as per lots of ghosts or spirits - not too many so-called "White-lighters" being active, mostly Darkies. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-09-17 02:18 |