| shaking in bed with an insecure feeling ... far away tremors  I woke up by the rattle of my bookshelves. Okayama was only magnitude 2. 岡山県 岡山県北部 真庭市 : 震度2 岡山県 岡山県南部 玉野市 赤磐市 岡山南区 : 震度1 震源地 : 駿河湾 But around Tokyo it was lower 6. 震度6弱: 静岡県 6.5 magnitude Tokyo is about 700 km away from Okayama where I live. |
Yesterday, heavy rain and
Typhoon Number 9 over Tokyo
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TOKYO, Aug 11 -
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 jolted eastern and central Japan on Tuesday, a government agency said, rattling houses in Tokyo.
The quake, which struck at 0507 a.m. (2007 GMT, Monday), prompted a tsunami warning for waves of up to 50 cm (20 inches) for parts of the Pacific coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its Website (www.jma.go.jp).
The area has been hit by heavy rain since Monday and the weather agency warned of possible landslides and flooding.
A highway was closed and Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported that two nuclear reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka, were quickly shut down.
The focus of the tremor was 20 km (12 miles) deep under Shizuoka prefecture, around 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Tokyo, the agency said. 20km below Suruga Bay.
Today's quake follows one Sunday that was rated variously at magnitude 7.1 or 6.9.
"It was a sideways shaking like I've never experienced before. Things fell from the shelves," Atsushi Imai, a local city employee, told national broadcaster NHK.
A tsunami watch has been issued across the Indian Ocean after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake, while a second tremor about 20 minutes later caused buildings to shake in Japan.
The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a large 7.6 earthquake in the Indian Ocean about 160 miles (257 kilometers) from India's Andaman Islands. It was 20.6 miles (33km) engrossed and was centred 163 miles (262km) arctic of Port Blair in the islands, that belong to India, the US Geological Survey reported.
A tsunami watch is in place for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh.
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Part of the stone wall of the Shizuoka Prefecture Office collapses in Shizuoka, west of Tokyo
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Yesterday, heavy rain and
Typhoon Number 9 over Tokyo
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i saw on the TV news today about the typhoons in China and Japan; very sad!
G.
Dear Gabi-san, I am so glad you are safe, but to live with these things is very hard. Your friends' love goes out to you.
Merrill
Thanks a lot, snowbird!
We have been lucky so far, but moved out of greater tokyo 15 years ago, it feels more safe here in the country.
Gabi
"Welcome!: earthquake?"
recalled John Muir, who delighted in Mother Nature bouncing him on her knee when all the whites and amerindians around were terrified. . .
Robin D. Gill
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I'm safe, thank you.
My place, Yamanashi, was Richter scale 4. I haven't had such a tremor for about thirty years.
T.K.
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