Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Shakes Northern Japan

[michaelm]

Fox news is reporting a 7.0 Earthquake.

[BeNotAfraid]

Not even a chance to catch your breath...

[jds6958]

BIG Earthquake in Japan Just Now! Predicted in Advance by Two Minutes (Live)
Japanese news; direct experience ^ | 14 June 2008 | AmericanInTokyo

Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 6:58:12 PM by AmericanInTokyo

We just had a very strong earthquake which fiercely rocked and rolled the main Island of Honshu in Japan.


TV broke with news on all channels IN ADVANCE OF EARTHQUAKE, warning people to "get ready". 8:43 a.m. local time Saturday (just about 10 minutes ago). 7:43 p.m. Friday Eastern Time.


Then, sure enough, the long, rolling shaking began, and increased in intensity. I estimate the shaking to have gone on for at least 45 seconds. It hit here at 8:45 a.m. It literally gave us 2 minutes to prepare. I have never experienced an advance earthquake warning.


The epicenter is considerably far from Tokyo, way up in northwest Japan. So I am sure there is little or no damage in Tokyo, but I can imagine damage and/or loss of life near the epicenter. It may well have been a 7.5. We will see.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2030862/posts?page=14

wow! interesting warning system

[Glory]

:shocked I think these days there should be warnings systems everywhere! If only China had some warning.:tsk

I'm curious to hear more about this quake.

[ZeldaCA]

They got an advance warning out? Wow. That is impressive. I hope there's more on how they predicted the quake!