Hidden among the general disaster news from Japan is the fact that as well as the string of massive after shocks off the East coast since the major quake, they have had two West Coast quakes including an M6.2, 10 km deep, ON LAND at 18:59 UTC on Friday =3D 4am Saturday morning Japan time or 8am Saturday morning NZ time. (about mid day Friday US West Coast and 2pm Friday US East Coast. Event page http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc00= 01zv3.php PAGER event page http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/events/us/c0001z2a/index.html PAGER recent events list http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/archives.php This was "around the either side" of the island - about North West from Tokyo and on the other side. Looking only at the PAGER map it looks like the worst hit areas would have been immune to the earlier Tsunami damage. A "reminder" that you can never be sure of being "safe" anywhere. About 80,000 people exposed to MM8 (modified Mercator shaking measure) - resistant buildings suffer moderate to heavy damage, non resistance buildings largely cease to exist. 170, 000 people exposed to MM7 - moderate damage to resistant buildings. 240,000, MM6, shonky buildings take moderate damage. And another 6 MILLION at MM5 with light damage to non resistant building. Deaths from shaking probably in the 1 to 10 range. Economic loss probably under 1 billion dollars. My point? An uncertain mix - but 3 days ago a quake of this magnitude would have been world news. TV cameras, front pages and all. Now it's just more of he same, - if you don't happen to live there. Based on what we are seeing from Christchurch, a significant number of people are going to becomes utterly terrified. This being Japan they will be generally far more "used to it". But a billion dollars of damage level quake takes some getting used to. But, where in Japan can people go to escape the earthquake risk? In NZ shock-drunk Christchurchians can flee to 'the big city' (Auckland - all 1 million people large) at least until our next volcano arrives. (For greater safety and certainty choose Taupo - very unlikely to wake, and when it finally does the outcome is certain.) In Japan some places are further from fault lines than others, but not necessarily enough. A magnitude 8.9 quake is meant to require a minimum of about 400 km of straight tectonic plate edge to allow adequately energetic simultaneous movement. this condition was NOT met at the site of the 8.9 quake. Unlikely to be encouraging to those in West Honshu. On 12 March 2011 12:20, RussellMc wrote: > Better than average collection of photos. > From various sources. > May or may not be legitimately aggregated here - well worth a look. > (I find myself wondering what my motivations are for being drawn to such = a > catastrophic set of images. Complex mix, as always) > > http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/ > > ref: Ken > If you MUST follow it online. > > http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/how-to-follow-the-j= apanese-earthquake-on-the-web/72342/ > > > NEWS RESOURCES > > AP summary > BBC liveblog > Wikipedia page for the Sendai quake > Japanese=A0New York Times' commenters=A0write about the quake > NPR Facebook page=A0about the disaster > CNN Video > @earthquake_japan=A0[updates in Japanese] > The Atlantic's In Focus photo blog > The Atlantic Wire liveblog > Mostly English Twitter > hashtags:=A0#japanquake,=A0#jpquake,=A0#earthquake,=A0#Japan,=A0#tsunami,= #hitsunami > Mostly Japanese Twitter hashtags:=A0#saigai,=A0#eqjp > Columbia journalism professor=A0Sree Sreenivasan's link aggregation > > GENERAL RESOURCES > > CrisisWiki.org > U.S. Geological Survey quake updates > Humanitarian Early Warning Service > > RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE IN JAPAN > > Google Person Finder: a pop-up message board to post and find information > about people missing. Almost 7000 records have been entered into the > database. > Global Voices' bloggers on the ground in Japan > Japanese Fire and Disaster Management Agency > > RESOURCES FOR THE PACIFIC > > Pacific Tsunami Warning Center > Tsunami travel time map > @HawaiiNewsNow > HITsunami.com > Live cam at Ocean Beach in San Francisco=A0by Mat Honan > Inundation map for the Bay Area=A0[PDF] > > =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 R --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .