posted on Apr, 13 2011 @ 08:19 PM
Alright, I've carefully counted how many high magnitude earthquakes have been listed for the Japan region at the USGS site since the first day of
Lent.
Here are the numbers including an extended list.
The USGS data lists 5 earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater:
One on March 9th, Three on March 11th, and one on April 7th. = 5 quakes.
(my previous number of "4" was based on the supplied wikipedia link which omitted one of the three March 11th quakes, I trust the USGS data more
than the wikipedia link.)
So what...so potentially one more +7.0 quake before a 7th April 22nd life altering quake.
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I've also counted 68 earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater from the first of Lent(Mar 9) through April 13th. Only one of those earthquakes in
March(March 15th) did not include a clickable link to get to the expanded data so I'm not sure if I should have included that one in the count, but I
did anyway). So that leaves 9 more quakes to get to a 77th Lent time quake of mag 6.0 or higher.
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Here is a complete list of all those 68 quakes including five of magnitude 7.0 or higher:
March 9th: (3 earthquakes of 6.0+) . (1 quake of 7.0+)
7.3-----2011/03/09 02:45:20 38.43N 142.84E 32 7.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/09 04:37:04 38.66N 142.99E 38 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/09 18:16:16 38.31N 142.43E 22 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 10th: (0)
March 11th: (42 earthquakes of 6.0+) . (3 quakes of 7.0+)
9.0 -----2011/03/11 05:46:24 38.32N 142.35E 32 9.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 05:54:31 37.71N 141.18E 32 6.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 05:55:45 37.35N 143.35E 35 6.4 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 05:58:07 37.62N 142.15E 51 6.3 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:00:39 38.09N 142.49E 41 6.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:06:13 39.00N 142.29E 43 6.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:07:20 36.41N 141.87E 32 6.4 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:08:29 38.96N 143.37E 3 6.7 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:12:36 37.78N 144.23E 25 6.2 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:13:01 37.21N 141.60E 40 6.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:15:23 37.93N 143.80E 35 6.3 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
7.9----2011/03/11 06:15:39 36.27N 141.14E 35 7.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:18:49 36.02N 142.26E 16 6.6 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:20:04 36.00N 142.06E 49 6.5 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:21:32 38.29N 142.81E 52 6.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:23:09 39.03N 142.28E 56 6.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
7.7----2011/03/11 06:25:50 38.05N 144.59E 18 7.7 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:29:16 37.82N 144.21E 42 6.5 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:48:45 37.96N 142.72E 12 6.2 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:49:16 37.33N 144.23E 47 6.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:57:16 35.71N 140.87E 47 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 06:59:00 37.35N 144.72E 36 6.3 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 07:14:58 36.58N 141.82E 25 6.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 07:25:36 37.93N 144.52E 40 6.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 07:28:12 36.82N 141.82E 28 6.1 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 07:29:01 39.03N 142.34E 45 6.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 07:30:18 37.44N 141.19E 49 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 08:10:29 36.28N 140.85E 20 6.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 08:12:07 36.57N 141.48E 40 6.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 08:15:41 37.04N 144.54E 41 6.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 08:19:23 36.16N 141.58E 2 6.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 08:26:36 37.36N 143.01E 17 6.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 08:27:51 38.01N 142.65E 43 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 08:31:09 37.46N 141.17E 37 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 08:33:00 39.14N 142.96E 28 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 10:10:34 39.24N 142.77E 29 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 11:36:39 39.27N 142.52E 12 6.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 15:13:15 36.00N 141.78E 25 6.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 18:59:15 37.02N 138.36E 2 6.3 NEAR THE WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 19:02:59 39.36N 142.86E 28 6.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 19:46:49 40.47N 139.07E 1 6.2 NEAR THE WEST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/11 20:11:22 39.02N 142.64E 9 6.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 12th: (3 earthquakes of 6.0+)
2011/03/12 13:15:42 37.30N 141.11E 38 6.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/12 01:47:15 37.59N 142.64E 20 6.5 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/12 23:24:48 38.03N 141.72E 15 6.1 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 13th: (1 at 6.0+)
2011/03/13 01:26:04 35.72N 141.63E 8 6.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 14th: (1 at 6.0+)
2011/03/14 06:12:36 37.80N 142.50E 14 6.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 15th: (2 or 3)
2011/03/14 06:12:36 37.80N 142.50E 14 6.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/15 13:31:46 35.29N 138.54E 9 6.0 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
NO-LINK: 2011/03/15 15:23:54 40.33N 143.27E 19 6.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 16th: (0)
March 17th: (1)
2011/03/17 04:13:56 40.14N 142.15E 29 6.1 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 18th: (0)
March 19th: (0)
March 20th: (0)
March 21st: (0)
March 22nd: (3)
2011/03/22 07:18:45 37.25N 143.98E 11 6.4 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/22 09:19:06 37.33N 141.79E 31 6.3 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011/03/22 09:44:30 39.85N 143.41E 17 6.4 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 23rd: (0)
March 24th: (0)
March 25th: (1)
2011/03/25 11:36:24 38.77N 141.87E 39 6.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 26th: (0)
March 27th: (1)
2011/03/27 22:23:58 38.40N 142.10E 17 6.2 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 28th: (0)
March 29th: (1)
2011/03/29 10:54:33 37.42N 142.26E 15 6.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
March 30th: (0)
March 31st: (1)
2011/03/31 07:15:30 38.92N 141.79E 42 6.1 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
April 1st: (1)
2011/04/01 11:57:54 39.33N 141.96E 41 6.0 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
April 2nd: (0)
April 3rd: (0)
April 4th: (0)
April 5th: (0)
April 6th: (0)
April 7th: (1 at magnitude 7.1)
Mag 7.1 - 2011/04/07 14:32:42 38.253 141.640 49.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
April 8th: (0)
April 9th: (1)
Mag 6.1 - 2011/04/09 12:57:49 30.013 131.810 21.3 KYUSHU, JAPAN
April 10th: (0)
April 11th: (2)
Mag 6.6 - 2011/04/11 08:16:13 37.007 140.477 10.0 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
Mag 6.2 - 2011/04/11 23:08:16 35.406 140.542 13.1 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
April 12th: (1)
Mag 6.0 - 2011/04/12 05:07:42 37.000 140.700 10.6 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
April 13th: (1)
Mag 6.1 - 2011/04/13 19:57:24 39.587 143.357 11.2 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN