Very interesting Japanese Quake Map from 3/11 until today

[FLPanhandle]

http://www.japanquakemap.com/

Let it load; the quakes start slowly, then the big one, and hundreds of aftershocks.

It gives the best display of how active that fault line has been I've seen.

[masmdu]

1. Interesting. Thanks

[On the Road]

2. That is an Amazing Presentation of Data

You can see how the shocks migrated south and became shallower after the biggest quake.

Only thing that might improve it would be changing the scale. It looks like the magnitude is done arithmetically, while the Richter scale is exponential. The 9.0 quake that caused the tsunami should stand out a lot more than it does.

[FLPanhandle]

5. It is a great way to display a lot of data visually.

It took me about 3 run throughs to catch all the size, depth, location patterns. Never even noticed the arithmatic magnitude.

[On the Road]

8. Yes, I Was Kind of Waiting for One Circle

that was completely off the charts, as I think would have been the case if the true magnitude of the 9.0 were reflected. As it was, it wasn't completely clear which was the big one unless you were looking for a certain date and time.

But that's kind of a quibble in light of the excellent work.

[mimitabby]

3. wow

a week later multiple 6. earthquakes holy cow. Inconceivable.

[Myrina]

4. That is horrifying!

Those poor people!!! :cry:

[FLPanhandle]

6. Makes me wonder why they built nukes much on the Eastern side

Seems the Southwestern area would be more stable

[diane in sf]

11. probably because it seems remote, but is still close to Tokyo and population using power.

Their prevailing winds might come from the southwest, so probably not prudent to build plants there. Also since that is closer to Nagasaki and Hiroshima the local population may have more resistance to building such a thing there. I would put one on the NE part of the island (actually I wouldn't put nukes anywhere) except it doesn't seem well-served by roads and it's across a range of mountains from the people who might be needed to maintain it or deal with it in emergencies.

[PufPuf23]

7. Amazing map. Thanks reced and bookmarked.

One wonders about Mt. Fuji or the birth of a new volcano off the coast between Tokyo and Senai.

Poor people there.

[mb7588a]

9. Something's brewing under there.

I'm scared to think what California would look like after something like this happened.

[ohheckyeah]

10. Be sure to click on sticky

dots in the display options if you want to be able to see where all of the quakes and aftershocks occurred. It's at the top right of the map.

Thanks very much for the link.

[Electric Monk]

12. Wow, thank you for sharing that. I knew there had been a bunch of aftershocks, but

seeing it like that makes me wonder if Japan might suddenly get a lot bigger, soon, with some new monster volcano right where those two fault lines cross?

k&r

[Lucinda]

13. knr - thank you for this

That's a LOT of shaking. :(