New earthquake in Japan...

[brooklynite]

6.0 intensity

press conference underway:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv#utm_campaigne=synclickback&source=http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/03/live_feed_from_japan.php#more?ref=fpblg&medium=7497266

[Bonobo]

1. Near Mt. Fuji. Everything is okay.

Local nuclear power plant ok.

[KittyWampus]

8. Bonbobo, can you still get food in the stores? I saw photos of empty shelves.

Is your family all accounted for?

[Bonobo]

12. Yeah, we are all in the Kansai area.

Many, many friends in Tokyo. They had some hard days and are still having them, but they are all okay.

One young lady I know is a JET teacher and she was in Kessennuma! One of the underwater towns in Miyagi-ken!

I have heard that she is okay though, indirectly.

We have no food shortages all the way out here, but who knows what will happen.

I am clearing bamboo off the mountain and starting a small plot to farm.

It is land that was in my wife's family but has not been farmed for 40 years.

Nature took it and now I'm taking it back. Seems like a good idea. Better brush up on my fishing too and building with bamboo.

[suffragette]

10. Glad to see this positive status report from you

:hi:

[Bonobo]

13. Hi Suffragette City! nt

[suffragette]

15. Just read your update above

Be sure to wear a good hat and gloves for your gardening. I used to have a small house and garden. There's something about gardening that heals the soul.

Btw, I noticed a Guardian environmental reporter blogged and reported from Kesennuma yesterday and posted that article:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x644629

Here's a link to his blog:http://twitter.com/jonathanwatts

[brooklynite]

2. No tsunami risk, but possibility of landslides...

[jannyk]

3. There were 2 - three minutes apart

#
1435: Following earlier reports, it appears there has been more than one strong aftershock in Japan - AP reports two tremors measuring over 6.0 within three minutes of each other.

Why do they need a press conference - they've had bigger.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Most likely an aftershock

despite the intensity. After shocks will go on for months. When we had our earthquake in San Francisco in 1989, it went on for months and months. California seems to shake every day..

[shraby]

5. They have had many many earthquakes even larger than

this in the aftermath. Some above 7.0. This one was in the south and very probably caused by the volcano that's rumbling down there.

[B2G]

6. It was very shallow...much moreso than the others

1km in depth. Interesting.

[Bonobo]

7. They just changed it to 6.4.

It wasn't nothing, but...

[Bonobo]

9. A scientist from Tokyo University on TV predicted the earthquakes were going to link up

and come further west, including to where I live. Maybe even Osaka area.

The "Nankai" plate... I hope he's wrong but it chilled my blood.

[brooklynite]

11. Not sure it was an aftershock...

A spokesman for Japan's meteorological agency says he does not know if there is a link between the strong earthquakes on Tuesday - including one of 6.0 magnitude - and Friday's massive 9.0-magnitude tremor. He says the epicentres were quite far apart.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[Skip_In_Boulder]

14. Real Time Earthquake Map of Japan

To put some perspective on what they are dealing with.