3 ms·

nothing to see here. this was a 5 on the scale and you should not expect any major earth shattering waves. there are earthquakes everyday here.

keepamovin 2y ago
In fact there was a M7.1: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nith/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nith...
- numpad0 2y ago
  Japan use Shindo scale that represents human perceptions and property damages better than the total energy measure represented by the magnitude scale. This one was up to Shindo 6 minor at some municipalities and Magnitude 7.1 total. Shindo 5 major is around where it gets scary but many concrete buildings survive, at 6-7 you might not want to delay packing for an evacuation.
  - keepamovin 2y ago
    That’s interesting, thank you. Reminds the Taiwan subjective scale too. Know what that’s called? Would not be surprised if that was influenced by Japanese, given their colonial history.
    - numpad0 2y ago
      Looks like this[1] is it, called "Central Weather Administration seismic intensity scale". There are few more similar standards around the world[2]. Looks like Taiwanese version is indeed related to Japanese standard. From [3]: > 臺灣的地震觀測始於日治時期，2000年8月之前的震度分級是沿用日本1936至1948年所使用的震度分級， My crudest roughly-letter-to-letter translation: > Taiwan's earthquake observation started during Japanese ruling period, Aug 2000 and before's intensity classification thereby following Japanese 1936 to 1948 -at employed intensity classification, 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Weather_Administration_seismic_intensity_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Weather_Administration... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales 3: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%A4%E9%80%9A%E9%83%A8%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%AE%E6%B0%A3%E8%B1%A1%E7%BD%B2%E5%9C%B0%E9%9C%87%E9%9C%87%E5%BA%A6%E5%88%86%E7%B4%9A https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%A4%E9%80%9A%E9%83%A8%E4...
      - keepamovin 2y ago
        Excellent! The CWA site is actually really cool. I like how they do the alerts, and present the information on rainfall, nearby taiphoons, wind. It's all organized and colored well. Just a good synthesis of lots of information at a glance, very impressive! This kind of thing may be standard for weather sites but I haven't see it done this well elsewhere.

keepamovin 2y ago

In fact there was a M7.1: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nith/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nith...

numpad0 2y ago
Japan use Shindo scale that represents human perceptions and property damages better than the total energy measure represented by the magnitude scale. This one was up to Shindo 6 minor at some municipalities and Magnitude 7.1 total. Shindo 5 major is around where it gets scary but many concrete buildings survive, at 6-7 you might not want to delay packing for an evacuation.
- keepamovin 2y ago
  That’s interesting, thank you. Reminds the Taiwan subjective scale too. Know what that’s called? Would not be surprised if that was influenced by Japanese, given their colonial history.
  - numpad0 2y ago
    Looks like this[1] is it, called "Central Weather Administration seismic intensity scale". There are few more similar standards around the world[2]. Looks like Taiwanese version is indeed related to Japanese standard. From [3]: > 臺灣的地震觀測始於日治時期，2000年8月之前的震度分級是沿用日本1936至1948年所使用的震度分級， My crudest roughly-letter-to-letter translation: > Taiwan's earthquake observation started during Japanese ruling period, Aug 2000 and before's intensity classification thereby following Japanese 1936 to 1948 -at employed intensity classification, 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Weather_Administration_seismic_intensity_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Weather_Administration... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales 3: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%A4%E9%80%9A%E9%83%A8%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%AE%E6%B0%A3%E8%B1%A1%E7%BD%B2%E5%9C%B0%E9%9C%87%E9%9C%87%E5%BA%A6%E5%88%86%E7%B4%9A https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%A4%E9%80%9A%E9%83%A8%E4...
    - keepamovin 2y ago
      Excellent! The CWA site is actually really cool. I like how they do the alerts, and present the information on rainfall, nearby taiphoons, wind. It's all organized and colored well. Just a good synthesis of lots of information at a glance, very impressive! This kind of thing may be standard for weather sites but I haven't see it done this well elsewhere.