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Offline Ripsnort

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HUGE 8.0 quake hits Japan
« on: September 25, 2003, 04:42:03 PM »
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/uszdap.htm

Tsunami warnings for Hawaii, Alaska.

Hope our Japanese AH players are okay, I guess this is a sparcely populated island.

Edit:

Now they're saying "7.8 magnitude and 20 miles deep"
« Last Edit: September 25, 2003, 05:13:26 PM by Ripsnort »
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Offline pugsly

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« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2003, 05:00:27 PM »
Thx for the heads up rip!
I called a friend in Muai and told him to get his arse to high ground.
thx again:eek:
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Offline Thrawn

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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2003, 05:03:43 PM »
8.0, holy crap!!  :eek:


Cripes, :(
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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2003, 05:07:27 PM »
Edit: See first post
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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2003, 05:08:46 PM »
Well if it disturbe the seabed in any way it will create one heck of a wave.:eek:
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« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2003, 05:32:25 PM »
Surfs up!
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2003, 05:51:35 PM »
Was pretty close to a 7.4 once... that is a god-awfull big quake.
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Offline Sikboy

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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2003, 10:19:21 PM »
I'm pretty sure we had one about the same size hit us back  in the fall of 1994. I was stationed at Misawa, Japan on Honshu, and even for this Southern California boy, it was pretty creepy. But I've had a long day, so I'm going to bed. Hopefully I'll remember ot tell this story tomorrow (not that it's all that interesting, but kind of funny).

-Sik
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« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2003, 10:29:57 PM »
Back in 1991 I lived in Yokohama teaching English, and was in two small (3.5 - 4 magnitude), and short (30-second) jishin, or earthquakes.  The two-story wooden house I lived in shook back and forth.  It was a bit scary, and these were just small, short 'quakes! :(

I know a man in Kawasaki, Tsunashima-san, who experienced the great Tokyo 'quake of 1923.  He told me the earth kept shaking and shaking for what seemed like forever, and then "bang, bang, bang", the earth just seemed to drop three times and the earthquake was over.

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« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2003, 11:52:26 PM »
I knew a guy from Kawasaki that rode a suzuki:D
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Offline Angus

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« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2003, 09:03:34 AM »
8.1!!! WOW. How long was the duration?
I've twice experienced a 6.5, - lasting about a half minute tops, and that was quite a show really. But 8.1 is really really much
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