8.9 Earthquake has struck Japan

Jim Saueressig

Jim Saueressig

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A pair?? (odd) of 7.9 Earthquakes has just hit Japan. I was just telling the wife a few days ago that I thought the quakes were looking like pre shocks. I guess that was a solid guess.....

24 seconds apart with 1 at 24.4 KM and the other at 10 KM depth.
 
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Loooks like it was a good ways offshore (81 miles away from the nearest town) which should reduce the impact some, but still, 7.9M is huge.
 
the magnitude has been revised to 8.8! Cnn is showing video of a large tusnami moving onshore and massive flooding. There is also video of damaged and burning skycrapers.
 
The live tsunami footage coming in is unbelievable. Showing houses and cars getting obliterated. Every bit as bad as the Sumatran tsunami.
 
8.9 Mag Earthquake and 13 foot Tsunami in Japan!!

Crazy looking Tsunami flooding and inundation video of fields, towns, homes, highways being overrun in Japan!!

Incredible inbound waves to Japan on the beach!
 
I've heard reports of 10 METER (30+ feet!) tsunami in Miyagi Prefecture. Bouys are reading 1 meter tsunami in deep open ocean.
 
Finally have my internet back. They upgraded to an 8.9. I was watching some video on the laptop with some stray internet I could pick up. Seen a lot of people being washed along in the tsunami's debris wave. Numerous aftershocks.
 
USGS has revised the main shock to 8.9, and the region is still ringing like a bell with 6+ magnitude shocks
 
This is some of the most amazing natural disaster footage I have ever seen. They got the news helicopters in the air fast enough to catch some of the waves moving onshore.
 
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