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myOtaku.com: Exiled Empress


Tuesday, November 15, 2005

   ok...
Ok...

*Tuesday Afternoon

Got home from school, I was just chillin in my room, watching some TV at about 3:45-ish in the afternoon, when I feel my room kinda shake and I hear double booms coming from the west, where the beach is at. I was like "What the-?" The first thing that came to mind was "EARTHQUAKE !!! AAAAHH!!" Then I thought about it being some kind of meteor entering the earth's atmosphere at a supersonic speed. So I brushed it off and said "Whatever". But what kept bugging me was that strange rolling motions came and went. I mean, when this happens, you feel all dizzy and you think that it's just you. But then my mom came in and she said that she also felt it. The booms from deep in the ocean kept being heard (I just live like 2 miles from the beach). It's just something you can faintly hear, like the distant echo of an explosion. The dizzyness felt the same as when you go up and elevator. Scary stuff. So we all thought it may have been a small earthquake that struck deep in the ocean. Just as long as we don't get a tsunami, we're alright, ya kno? If not, then we gotta head more inland. Anyway, at the 6 o' clock news they said that Japan had been hit by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake at 4: 39 EST, which would make it 1: 39 PST here in Cali. How did we feel it almost 2 hours later? Well my guess was that the energy of the earthquake had to travel through the earth's crust and then hit us, or something like that. The travel time must've taken at least 2 1/2 hours. I'm just saying that what we felt was a shockwave from Japan's earthquake. Unless....it was a different, separate mini earthquake? O.o


Here's the article (I copied and pasted it from Yahoo! News)

Strong Earthquake Shakes Northern Japan By HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 4 minutes ago



TOKYO - A strong earthquake shook northern Japan early Tuesday, triggering a small tsunami that struck coastal towns about 200 miles from the epicenter. There were no immediate reports of damage.

The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, hit at 6:39 a.m. (4:39 p.m. EST Monday) and was centered off the east coast of Japan's main island of Honshu, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and Japan's Meteorological Agency.

Tsunami waves of 12 and 19 inches hit the city of Ofunato, and 4- to 12-inch waves generated by the quake struck at least four other towns in the area, the agency said. Tsunami waves are often barely noticeable in the ocean but can rise to greater heights once they reach shore.

Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the USGS in Menlo Park, Calif., said the swell amounted to "a surfable tsunami."

The quake hit at a depth of about 15 miles and was centered off the coast of Sanriku in northern Japan, 330 miles east of Tokyo, the USGS said.

Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries because it sits atop four tectonic plates. A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan in August, injuring at least 59 people, triggering landslides, damaging buildings and causing widespread power outages.

There was no destructive Pacific Ocean-wide tsunami threat following Tuesday's quake, based on historical data, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

However, earthquakes as large as Tuesday's can general local tsunamis capable of causing destruction along coastlines within 60 miles of the epicenter, according to the center.

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Associated Press writer Andrew Bridges contributed to this report from Washington.
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