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This an amazing visualization that does well to bring home the impact of these quakes. I've never been scared just by looking at a Google Map before.
by fourspace 16y ago
This an amazing visualization that does well to bring home the impact of these quakes. I've never been scared just by looking at a Google Map before.
- bad_user 16y agoMy God, if that happened near my city, it would be completely wiped off the face of the earth.
- NZ_Matt 16y agoThe destruction from the earthquake itself could've been a lot worse in Japan if the epicenter was closer to Japan and not 200km offshore. This map shows that the shaking in Japan was not of a destructive intensity in most areas. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake/c0001xgp/download/intensity.jpg http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake... PGA is generally better than magnitude for analyzing an earthquakes true intensity near cities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_ground_acceleration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_ground_acceleration