Seven
May 26th, 2003
Now they’re saying it was a 7.0 quake on the Richter….
Hi-Net is now reporting magnitude 7.2 on the Richter, NHK is still saying “at least 7.0,” Tenki says 7.0. No tsunami worries, they say.
Considering that power, it seems like there was relatively little damage–but we’re just seeing what’s in Sendai and Morioka–it could have hit some smaller towns very hard, and we just don’t know about it yet. Phone services are still not working perfectly in the area, it seems.
New Hi-net data is shown below:

