6.8 Earthquake off Japan Coast
March 13th, 2010
Sachi and I definitely felt a jolt just now, and in our building, something that sharp tends to be either powerful or close. According to my sources, it’s a 6.8 off the coast of Fukushima, roughly 275 km northeast of Tokyo, about 50 km off the Fukushima coast. They probably felt that but good in Fukushima and Sendai…
Update: Reports now put the quake at 5.7. I was wondering why it wasn’t getting more coverage.
I thought I knew earthquakes being a California kid never more than 50 miles from the San Andreas, but man Japan is in another class.
What’s weird is that you in Tokyo and me in Sunnyvale are sitting on the same plate!
(almost — science is kinda confused about what’s happening up in Siberia between the N American plate and the Okhotsk plate)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhotsk_Plate