BIG earthquake in japan WARNING

reply to post by Gamecock


Now THIS is the thread to be watching. So they KNOW when an earthquake is about to sound??? WTH

Did they just claim this was footage from Monday afternoon?

Yes. This is old footage you guys are watching.
They did not predict anything. They are talking about the EQ on Monday

I've been following the quake trends, this is almost downtown Tokyo. Infact a few miles further inland and it would have been. +6 NorthEast the City is all we know before the NHK in Tokyo cut-out.

NHK's website reports there was an earthquake at 12:52 JST today - Japanese scale of 5 in Chiba and parts of Ibaraki, 4 in Fukushima, Saitama and Ibaraki. Not sure exactly how strong 5 is in the magnitude scale, but it goes up to 7.

It said live.....they said 12:52pm wednesday.....its 4:05am here...they are 9 hours ahead...its wednesday morning here....wednesday afternoon there.
It didnt look recorded...it never had "recorded" in the corner...i could be wrong but i thought it was live.?

Even if it is an old report an earthquake most definately happened about 15 mins ago. I have been watching it on GEE

It just struck per Twitter updates , around 6 mag, nothing on USGS

There is nothing on USGS so unless they have stopped reporting earthquakes, there wasn't one as this thread implies.
It was an old report. Was not live until the man came on telling you it was old and it was talking about the EQ from Monday.

Well if it's an old quake then BBC are confused as well - they're reporting it as just happening.

Nobody can keep up with this...

As I have been glued to various coverages since the monent the 8.9 struck it has come to my attention that the Japanese have been pre-warning most of the aftershocks and smaller waves/mini-tsunamis with advance time. Many of the coverage reports have stated this on various occasions.

I'm not an expert or even an ametuer at EQ anything but I'm guessing they detect ultra low frequencies or something of that sort that have repeatedly been recorded as normal signs of imminent earthquakes.

Magnitude mb 5.7
Region NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Date time 2011-03-16 03:52:02.0 UTC
Location 35.92 N ; 140.70 E
Depth 2 km
Distances 37 km NE Narita (pop 100,641 ; local time 12:52:02.6 2011-03-16)
5 km N Kamisu (pop 52,553 ; local time 12:52:02.6 2011-03-16)


Source parameters not yet reviewed by a seismologist

www.emsc-csem.org...

6.0 2011/03/16 03:52:06 35.795 140.804 25.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Here's a link (in Japanese) to NHK's website will all of the data. Hit it with Google translate if you need to, but it just happnened today.

Earthquake on Wednsday, March 16th

Finally USGS puts it up...

mag 6.0


earthquake.usgs.gov...

OK. They are now showing it. WOW. Talk about being late.
Now what I don't understand is why that man said MONDAY quake and so did the translator

Magnitude 6.0
Date-Time

* Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 03:52:05 UTC
* Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 12:52:05 PM at epicenter

Location 35.795°N, 140.804°E
Depth 25 km (15.5 miles) set by location program
Region NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances

* 70 km (43 miles) SSE (156°) from Mito, Honshu, Japan
* 96 km (60 miles) E (81°) from TOKYO, Japan
* 142 km (88 miles) S (184°) from Iwaki, Honshu, Japan

yay lol.....didnt think i was hearing things haha. Funny they had cameras on it...maybe they can predict them i dont know? If they can predict them...they did VERY well as it happened literally 20 mins after the warning i saw

NOW up on emsc for the non-believers

www.emsc-csem.org...

This was mere tens of miles away from Downtown Tokyo

That 6.0 was 60 miles East of Tokyo per usgs.

(sorry, didn't know it had been posted.)

They can predict quakes in Japan, but the catch is there's only a minute or so warning. I have no idea how it works, but I have been in a power station data centre in Tokyo before and heard the countdown start about 50 seconds out, and sure enough, once it reached zero the shaking began.

I doubt the footage you saw was from cameras set up to capture the quake - they would just be surveillance cameras that happened to film the rocking and rolling.

What I don't understand is the report that was streaming kept talking about a MONDAY quake and then that guy came on and said the same thing. "You were just watching blah blah blah on the earthquake that hit Monday blah blah blah"
I personally saw nor heard a warning. Not saying nobody else did.