Thursday 17 March 2011

aftershocks

The  aftershocks continue - we have felt more earthquakes in the past week than in the past 5 or 10 years.  Sometimes it's hard to know if it's a tremor or imagination.  Walking around you don't feel them - even ones today that were almost magnitude 6 were not noticeable. When at home, in a building designed to absorb the shock and shake,  they can be felt much more acutely.


I will post again over the weekend but for the moment this is today's list of tremors.  Not that a high magnitude does not necessarily translate as high on the Japanese scale which measures the effects on the ground - the shaking effect.  Of these we felt only the evening ones in Chiba and one early this morning.  
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/quake_local_index.html



Issued atOccurred atRegion NameMagnitudeMaximum Seismic Intensity
(JMA Seismic Intensity)
22:04 JST 17 Mar 201121:55 JST 17 Mar 2011Ibaraki-ken OkiM5.84
21:58 JST 17 Mar 201121:55 JST 17 Mar 2011Ibaraki-ken OkiM5.84
21:41 JST 17 Mar 201121:36 JST 17 Mar 2011Fukushima-ken OkiM4.93
21:39 JST 17 Mar 201121:32 JST 17 Mar 2011Chiba-ken Toho-okiM5.84
21:36 JST 17 Mar 201121:32 JST 17 Mar 2011Chiba-ken Toho-okiM5.84
21:07 JST 17 Mar 201121:02 JST 17 Mar 2011Niijima-Kozushima KinkaiM2.81
21:02 JST 17 Mar 201120:57 JST 17 Mar 2011Niigata-ken Chuetsu-chihoM2.11
20:52 JST 17 Mar 201120:48 JST 17 Mar 2011Fukushima-ken OkiM4.43
20:47 JST 17 Mar 201120:41 JST 17 Mar 2011Niigata-ken Chuetsu-chihoM2.51
19:23 JST 17 Mar 201119:18 JST 17 Mar 2011Shizuoka-ken TobuM2.81
18:49 JST 17 Mar 201118:44 JST 17 Mar 2011Tochigi-ken HokubuM3.42
18:11 JST 17 Mar 201118:06 JST 17 Mar 2011Iwate-ken OkiM4.93
18:04 JST 17 Mar 201117:59 JST 17 Mar 2011Iwate-ken OkiM5.13
17:30 JST 17 Mar 201117:25 JST 17 Mar 2011Ibaraki-ken OkiM5.43
16:31 JST 17 Mar 201116:28 JST 17 Mar 2011Shizuoka-ken TobuM2.21
16:01 JST 17 Mar 201115:58 JST 17 Mar 2011Nagano-ken ChubuM3.01
15:05 JST 17 Mar 201115:01 JST 17 Mar 2011Hyogo-ken NantobuM1.91
14:35 JST 17 Mar 201114:32 JST 17 Mar 2011Nagano-ken HokubuM2.51
14:27 JST 17 Mar 201114:24 JST 17 Mar 2011Akita-ken OkiM4.52
14:02 JST 17 Mar 201113:59 JST 17 Mar 2011Tokyo-wanM3.01
13:23 JST 17 Mar 201113:14 JST 17 Mar 2011Iwate-ken OkiM5.84
13:17 JST 17 Mar 201113:14 JST 17 Mar 2011Iwate-ken OkiM5.84
13:14 JST 17 Mar 201113:10 JST 17 Mar 2011Tokyo-wanM3.32
13:08 JST 17 Mar 201113:05 JST 17 Mar 2011Tokyo-wanM2.71
12:04 JST 17 Mar 201112:01 JST 17 Mar 2011Nagano-ken HokubuM2.82
12:03 JST 17 Mar 201111:59 JST 17 Mar 2011Niigata-ken Chuetsu-chihoM2.72
11:32 JST 17 Mar 201111:29 JST 17 Mar 2011Fukushima-ken NakadoriM3.22
11:15 JST 17 Mar 201111:12 JST 17 Mar 2011Niigata-ken Chuetsu-chihoM2.21
08:43 JST 17 Mar 201108:38 JST 17 Mar 2011Iwate-ken OkiM5.63
08:16 JST 17 Mar 201108:11 JST 17 Mar 2011Nagano-ken HokubuM3.13
07:53 JST 17 Mar 201107:49 JST 17 Mar 2011Aomori-ken Toho-okiM3.31
07:10 JST 17 Mar 201107:05 JST 17 Mar 2011Ibaraki-ken OkiM4.63
06:20 JST 17 Mar 201106:16 JST 17 Mar 2011Fukushima-ken HamadoriM3.83
06:18 JST 17 Mar 201106:14 JST 17 Mar 2011Nagano-ken HokubuM2.01
05:34 JST 17 Mar 201105:31 JST 17 Mar 2011Oshima-chiho SeibuM2.12
05:30 JST 17 Mar 201105:25 JST 17 Mar 2011Niigata-ken Chuetsu-chihoM2.01
04:04 JST 17 Mar 201104:00 JST 17 Mar 2011Fukushima-ken OkiM4.53
04:01 JST 17 Mar 201103:56 JST 17 Mar 2011Fukushima-ken HamadoriM4.43
01:01 JST 17 Mar 201100:57 JST 17 Mar 2011Nagano-ken HokubuM2.21
00:48 JST 17 Mar 201100:45 JST 17 Mar 2011Nagano-ken ChubuM2.51
00:33 JST 17 Mar 201100:29 JST 17 Mar 2011Nagano-ken ChubuM2.52

2 comments:

Jessica Renshaw said...

Wow, Cecilia (is that right?) I was so stunned by your list of aftershocks I have copied and pasted it on my own blog, HisScribbler.blogspot.com and have linked my readers to your blog. I grew up in Japan and have spent 30 years in California, both part of the Ring of Fire, but I have never experienced anything like what you are all going through! You have our prayers.

Cecilia said...

No problem. It seems like a lot of the foreign media is hysterical about the nuclear situation and conspiracy theories about Japanese govt. dishonesty that the human tragedy in the north is being ignored....

Thanks for caring and bringing it to the attention of people calmly.