For all things relating to tectonic plate collisions. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis... the Pacific ring of fire and world-wide. Please create new threads for stronger earthquakes when they happen above magnitude 5.0.
Jasestorm wrote:Just some videos from you tube plus what they had on 60 minutes on sunday about it, the nuclear power plants are still not under control so if there were to be another big quake which is likly in an active zone such as japan the threat would be far greater again because of the already damaged reactors.
I agree with you on that Jase,another "big one"could be really be quite serous,but as for Japan spiting in half,well... man would have well and truly breed himself into oblivion by the time that happens
Jasestorm wrote:Perhaps from now on i will keep my opinions to myself, then everyone stays happy
Dont worry about it,we are all entitled to our opinions
Perhaps a little inelegantly put Razor, but yes, I tend to agree with you in principle.
Jason, as I've said before, it pays to back-up these seemingly wild or left-field claims with credible references. I suspect you've simply 'mashed-up' (as Tim would put it ) some of the facts.
P.S. Thought it would be more appropriate to move today's comments to this thread.
I was talking to a friend of mine near Tokyo via skype on sunday
things are back to normal in that area, has been ever since the first earthquake...Tokyo got back to normal a few days later. Different story for cities closer to the epicenter obviously
continents and land masses are slowly changing and moving, have always been, via plate movements
but thats over millions of years time frame
Japan split in two? It's already divided into 4 major islands and countless smaller ones, thanks to millions of years of tectonic and volcanic activity.
tich wrote:Japan split in two? It's already divided into 4 major islands and countless smaller ones, thanks to millions of years of tectonic and volcanic activity.
It can always happen....with the help of Hollywood computer graphics!
I think that NZ should look at Japans readiness for earthquakes and strong earthquakes as we are kind of in the same position, both are positioned on major fault lines.
Trouble is Japan are technically savvy people, with a far greater population, subsequently they can afford such systems. Unfortunately we can't necessarily afford to do the same, however we may be able to use them for inspiration to develop something more appropriate for here.
Yes, a cool US$1 billion I believe Japan spent in 2007 on the world's most advanced earthquake early-warning system. Its supercomputers took just 10 seconds to crunch the numbers and issue quake alerts after the M9.0 struck, giving residents nearly 400 km away in Tokyo a further 80 seconds to prepare (currently it takes GNS about 15-30 minutes to issue a preliminary report). And Japan's tsunami alerts, which take longer to generate, were issued 3 minutes after the quake, while NOAA's Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre took 9 minutes.
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There is a documentary on Prime (tv4) today about the tsunami and earthquake. I already watched it on YouTube. It's called Japan Tsunami: How it happened. It's at 8:30pm. It's interesting to watch.
Thanks - looks like they sure have done a good job cleaning up, and those pics were only 6 months after the disaster! Wonder where they are putting all the debris - a big landfill?
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