New 6.2 quake in Central Japan

[sce56]

Source: USGS

arthquake Details

* This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 6.2
Date-Time

* Friday, March 11, 2011 at 18:59:15 UTC
* Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 03:59:15 AM at epicenter

Location 37.037°N, 138.355°E
Depth 1 km (~0.6 mile)
Region NEAR THE WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances

* 46 km (29 miles) NNE (21°) from Nagano, Honshu, Japan
* 95 km (59 miles) NW (318°) from Maebashi, Honshu, Japan
* 116 km (72 miles) SSW (212°) from Niigata, Honshu, Japan
* 197 km (122 miles) NW (321°) from TOKYO, Japan

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 12.9 km (8.0 miles); depth +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles)
Parameters NST=409, Nph=415, Dmin=55.7 km, Rmss=1.16 sec, Gp= 29°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9
Source

* U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Event ID usc0001z2a

Read more: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0001z2a.php

[Earth_First]

1. Lovely...

Not what the region needs at this moment in time, especially with the happenings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility...

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[PaDUer]

4. This is one nightmare!! n/t

[Bosonic]

3. very shallow quake

bad news for anything close to the epicenter.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yep... I wonder if the main event go branches to go off

[SkyDaddy7]

6. YES! I have never seen one that shallow! nt.

[defendandprotect]

7. Keep in mind that Global Warming will bring more earthquakes --

[Bosonic]

8. ru4real?

[sce56]

9. A theroy that melting Ice caps will change the pressure on the Earth's crust

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/07/guardian-global-warming-to-trigger-earthquakes-tsunamis-avalanches-and-volcanic-eruptions/

Scientists are to outline dramatic evidence that global warming threatens the planet in a new and unexpected way – by triggering earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and volcanic eruptions.

Reports by international groups of researchers – to be presented at a London conference next week – will show that climate change, caused by rising outputs of carbon dioxide from vehicles, factories and power stations, will not only affect the atmosphere and the sea but will alter the geology of the Earth.

Melting glaciers will set off avalanches, floods and mud flows in the Alps and other mountain ranges; torrential rainfall in the UK is likely to cause widespread erosion; while disappearing Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets threaten to let loose underwater landslides, triggering tsunamis that could even strike the seas around Britain.

At the same time the disappearance of ice caps will change the pressures acting on the Earth’s crust and set off volcanic eruptions across the globe. Life on Earth faces a warm future – and a fiery one.

“Not only are the oceans and atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms and floods, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too,” said Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, at University College London (UCL).

[defendandprotect]

12. Yes -- sadly --

That was part of a "secret" Pentagon Warning to Bush which told him that

Global Warming was actually a greater threat to us than "terrorism" --

and it cited the complications -- increasingly chaotic weather -- increasing

intensity and number of hurricanes, storms, cyclones, tornadoes --

and it mentioned "EARTHQUAKES" --

unfortunately, the current rendition of that you'll find on the internet

is now scurbbed of "earthquakes" --

and I'd presume also that it will bring increasing volcanic activity --

tho the Pentago memo didn't say that!


:(

[Jazzgirl]

19. I do remember that report.

I remember when they first announced it and then......crickets. Nothing else. And this was before the Iraq war IIRC. It wasn't Saddam that was a threat. It was weather...natural occurences.

[whosinpower]

10. self delete nt

[bbgrunt]

11. in the end, the direction of causality will be a moot point.

[defendandprotect]

20. True -- and so will accountability --

[defendandprotect]

14. That's according to the Pentagon Warning to Bush --

though if you find the articles now, they are usually scrubbed of the reference to

"earthquakes" --

and, tho not mentioned in the Pentagon Warning, I would suggest it will also include

increased volcanic activity.

[whosinpower]

15. I deleted my own post because

I did not pursue due diligence before giving my opinion.
Sorry about that.

I have very limited knowledge about geography/geology. The earth's tectonic plates are in constant motion - very very slowly - but they "float" on a sea of molten lava deep within the earth's core. You may correct me if I am wrong. A geologic event such as an earthquake would be an interupption of that flow - if one plate got somehow stuck against the other, or altered its direction into another - the rising pressure would cause an earthquake.

OK - that is my limited high school science. I did not take into consideration the theory that rising temperatures on the surface of the planet would or could alter the tectonic plates direction if those same plates were under LESS downward pressure from melting glaciers etc....and those glaciers were melting because of global warming.

I am still not sure about this theory. Could melting icecaps and glaciers actually change the course of a tectonic plates movement? These are huge huge pressures/energies we are talking about, so while I am skeptical, scientists in Iceland seem to think it plausible.

[defendandprotect]

18. Well .... others here ...

usually come in with info on the plates -- but the glacier melting does impact

that movement. I can't quote anything on that for you --

What I'm saying is based on the "secret" Pentagon Report to W on Global Warming,

citing it as a greater threat to US than "terrorism" -- and listing the increasing

chaotic weather -- earthquakes were included but since scrubbed.

However, clearly drought/floods, cyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes -- all in increasing

numbers and severity.

And, as scientists have long told us, no one can say how all of this will compound.


:)



Another part of it is this, also about which I know little --

The info about the earth's axis -- which always seemed to be a bit unstable is also

important, imo -- in regard to some suggesting we could have an axis shift.

And nuclear reactors thrown into all of this certainly compound the problems!!

[kentauros]

13. And one at 6.6 now:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0001z4n.php

Also at 1km depth! :o

[DeeJay]

16. (10km) n/t

[kentauros]

17. And yet

the site states it as "1km":

Depth___1 km (~0.6 mile) set by location program