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Is there something noteworthy about this specific incident? Faults of this magnitude are unfortunately relatively common. For example earlier this month there w

by eis 3y ago

Is there something noteworthy about this specific incident? Faults of this magnitude are unfortunately relatively common. For example earlier this month there was a 6.2 quake not far from this one on the coast of the other side of Japan. I don't expect major damage or deaths, hopefully.

stuartcw 3y ago
Exactly this.
kuczmama 3y ago
This one was very close to Tokyo, which is arguably the largest city in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  The point is that's normal. They're used to these, and stuff's built for it. It's 1/1000th the strength of the one that made 2011's tsunami.
  - zinekeller 3y ago
    While there's a fatality (NHK in Japanese: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230526/k10014079771000.html https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230526/k10014079771000.ht...), these events are pretty much "huh, that happened". It wasn't even the headliner on NHK's NewsWeb (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/ https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/), sharing a slot with a relatively faraway Typhoon No. 2 (internationally known as Mawar). (The last relatively-significant earthquake was on 5th May where an elderly person died but it was pretty much "that happened").
    - GolDDranks 3y ago
      The news piece you linked seems to be about a Yakuza shooting in Machida, not about an earthquake? Here in the west side of centeral Tokyo, the quake was long and definitely noticeable, but nothing out of ordinary. In Narita Airport, I hear it shaked pretty hard.
- Hamuko 3y ago
  Arguably not a city but rather a metropolis with like 20 / 50 cities inside it (depending on how you view it).
LinuxBender 3y ago
Assuming no major aftershocks closer to the cities then hopefully it is a non-event. It was enough to trigger all of their audible alerts for the impending quake and enough for USGS to send me alerts.
- deleted 3y ago
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eigenform 3y ago
AFAICT the JMA press release[^1] says this is just "Sagami Trough"[2] subduction, nothing out of the ordinary. It also mentions that between the two most-recent M8+ quakes (1703 and 1923), the recurrence time for ~M7 events was about 27 years. [1]: https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/press/2305/26b/kaisetsu202305262100.pdf https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/press/2305/26b/kaisetsu20230526210... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagami_Trough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagami_Trough

by eis 3y ago

stuartcw 3y ago

Exactly this.

kuczmama 3y ago

This one was very close to Tokyo, which is arguably the largest city in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities

ceejayoz 3y ago
The point is that's normal. They're used to these, and stuff's built for it. It's 1/1000th the strength of the one that made 2011's tsunami.
- zinekeller 3y ago
  While there's a fatality (NHK in Japanese: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230526/k10014079771000.html https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230526/k10014079771000.ht...), these events are pretty much "huh, that happened". It wasn't even the headliner on NHK's NewsWeb (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/ https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/), sharing a slot with a relatively faraway Typhoon No. 2 (internationally known as Mawar). (The last relatively-significant earthquake was on 5th May where an elderly person died but it was pretty much "that happened").
  - GolDDranks 3y ago
    The news piece you linked seems to be about a Yakuza shooting in Machida, not about an earthquake? Here in the west side of centeral Tokyo, the quake was long and definitely noticeable, but nothing out of ordinary. In Narita Airport, I hear it shaked pretty hard.
Hamuko 3y ago
Arguably not a city but rather a metropolis with like 20 / 50 cities inside it (depending on how you view it).

LinuxBender 3y ago

Assuming no major aftershocks closer to the cities then hopefully it is a non-event. It was enough to trigger all of their audible alerts for the impending quake and enough for USGS to send me alerts.

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eigenform 3y ago

AFAICT the JMA press release[^1] says this is just "Sagami Trough"[2] subduction, nothing out of the ordinary. It also mentions that between the two most-recent M8+ quakes (1703 and 1923), the recurrence time for ~M7 events was about 27 years. [1]: https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/press/2305/26b/kaisetsu202305262100.pdf https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/press/2305/26b/kaisetsu20230526210... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagami_Trough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagami_Trough