Japan Earthquake Swarm Google Earth Animation

[OneFastSnake]

Crazy stuff.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xylDxj6-9dY"]YouTube - Japan Earthquake Swarm Google Earth Animation[/nomedia]

 

[93_408_LX]

That was crazy actually.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

soon as the 8.9 popped up it was like all hell broke loose, much like what happened in real life.

 

[thomas91169]

****ing crazy!

at least geologists now know what to look for, when a series of quakes like that hits a focused area for about a day straight, and then nothing for a few hours (letting fault pressures build up), it could mean a big one is building up.

Look at the timestamp, time is in hours not minutes or seconds.

 

[Stevo151]

****ing crazy!

at least geologists now know what to look for, when a series of quakes like that hits a focused area for about a day straight, and then nothing for a few hours (letting fault pressures build up), it could mean a big one is building up.

Look at the timestamp, time is in hours not minutes or seconds.

yeah seriously, its crazy what happened tho

 

[VenomousDSG]

Looks like the ocean has chicken pox.

 

[cobrakidz]

Crazy how many aftershocks there were........

 

[Kevin the Clean 1]

I still can't believe all that happened to Japan that day. Mother nature reeked havoc on those poor people & the place will never be the same...

 

[LSUstang05]

Those quakes did some crazy damage. Sea-floor rift is 50 miles wide, over 200 miles long, shifted some of Japan's beaches by up to 8 feet, changed Earth axis by 4 inches and sped up our rotation.

Worst of all, it sank parts of Japan and some of the cities that are inundated may not (naturally) return back to normal...

Japan Earthquake Shifted Coastline Maximum Of 8 Feet, Scientists Say

 

[Sonic605hp]

Just wow.

 

[VirtualSVT]

[youtube_browser]xylDxj6-9dY[/youtube_browser]

 

[GeoSnake]

As a geologist, I'll say it again (and i quote)...

"Civilization exist by geological consent, subject to change without notice."

It is tragic and terrible to loose so many people, homes, etc. But folks need to understand that the recent earthquake activity in that region is normal. It's a triple-junction, active plate boundary. Nothing new. It has happened before and will happen again.

Thanks for the google earth link! I'll share that with other geologist here at work.

 

[ChiSVT]

That animation gave me the chills!

"Civilization exist by geological consent, subject to change without notice."

A dark reality indeed and yet so many natural disasters we've yet to experience in our lifetimes. The history of our planet is insane.

 

[ViciousJay]

Looks like the ocean has chicken pox.

took the words right out of my mouth

 

[Jefe]

Has there ever been that many earthquakes in one area in that time period?

 

[WildFifty]

incredible, thanks for shareing

 

[Fox-4]

WoW!

 

[hoamskilet]

wow. shit went crazy after the big one