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Originally Posted by Platapus
really?? That's a lot! 
Gotta a citation for that? This is something I would like to read about.
That's going to mess up some weather patterns.  |
http://www.earth-issues.com/2011/03/...ifted-10-cm-2/
This is the only one I can find so far, it came up on the BBCs live text, as it's a preliminary result I should have given it a disclaimer that it could be revised, but even so if this is accurate then it is a greater shift than caused by the Sumatran quake, and that was a 9.1. There was also an interesting snippet on the BBC reporting that showed a seismograph comparison to scale of the Japanese quake with the Haiti quake and the Christchurch quake as recorded by the seismograph at the British Geological Society or Survey (can't recall off hand which) at Edinburgh. Both Haiti and Christchurch were small fairly flat lines...Japans quake was a complete jagged mess, indicating, I do believe, some 2.1cm of earth movement in Edinburgh because of the quake in Japan. So that's a very strong P wave.
In other news, North-west Japan (Niigata province) has just been rocked by a 6.6 earthquake, no reports of damage yet, but this quake is in a new location to the aftershocks from the earlier quake of which, as you can see in the link provided earlier, there have been dozens. No new tsunami warning has been given.
In regards to other countries, China and Taiwan haven't been seriously affected, Hawaii got some large waves but nothing serious and was well forewarned, the US coast has taken some large-ish waves but again, there was a lot of warning it was coming and the worse damage is some sunken boats. The main concern is some of the small islands to the south-east of Japan, I don't know how they've been affected, but I think some ships are on their way to the area to check.