Powerful quake hits Japan, Fukushima residents urged to flee tsunami

[bill937ca]

 

November 22, 2016 at 06:50 JST

 

A powerful earthquake hit northern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, issuing tsunami advisories for much of the nation's northern Pacific coast.

The epicentre of the earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo, was off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture at a depth of about 10 km, the agency said.

 

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles//AJ201611220011.html

 

http://www.mainichi.jp/english/articles/20161122/p2g/00m/0dm/001000c

Edited November 21, 2016 by bill937ca

[Kabutoni]

Tsunami warnings were issued for a max. 3 meter high tsunami, but IIRC no tsunami damage has been reported so far. A fire however was reported in a refinery.

[katoftw]

No cool. Yeah a chenical plant in Iwaki had a fire that was easily put out.

[railsquid]

Nothing too dramatic, TV is broadcastin live on all channels pictures of the coast desperately looking for signs of sea level change, no live helicopter shots of doom and destruction.

Edited November 21, 2016 by railsquid

[miyakoji]

NHK World is broadcasting mostly their domestic Japanese feed with simultaneous English interpretation.   Right now there's a guy from TEPCO talking, it sounds like the power plant is more or less ok.  Some pump stopped, they got it restarted.

[railsquid]

Oh dear, I see the overseas media has latched on to the words "earthquake", "tsunami" and "Fukushima".

[Kabutoni]

Oh dear, I see the overseas media has latched on to the words "earthquake", "tsunami" and "Fukushima".

 

Time to bring in the foil hat fear mongering folk! xD

[cteno4]

That's the problem with earthquakes and tsunamis, it's a wait and see if it was the right kind of slip in the right place to make one... Bad for preparedness as too many false alarms.

 

Then of course news loves it as it gives them advance warning for potential disaster coverage but that's another issue...

 

Jeff

[railsquid]

Hmm, come to think of it there was a quake/tsunami of this scale on the Tuesday Wednesday before the 2011 quake, maybe I'd better stock up on toilet paper ;)

(That caught a lot of people out because they didn't take the tsunami warning for the big quake seriously).

Edited November 22, 2016 by railsquid

[bill937ca]

Hmm, come to think of it there was a quake/tsunami of this scale on the Tuesday Wednesday before the 2011 quake, maybe I'd better stock up on toilet paper ;)

(That caught a lot of people out because they didn't take the tsunami warning for the big quake seriously).

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-34443743

[bill937ca]

 

Magnitude-7.4 quake likely an aftershock from five years ago

 

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201611220050.html

 

Wow!

[HantuBlauLOL]

Oh dear, I see the overseas media has latched on to the words "earthquake", "tsunami" and "Fukushima".

 

well, you know how they works.