Massive 8.8-magnitude quake strikes Japan
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What the hell?!
Hope the victims are all right.
And this should prompt our government to think about earthquake prevention. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake killed as many people as our magnutide 5.6 one while being over 10^3 times stronger.
Hope the victims are all right.
And this should prompt our government to think about earthquake prevention. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake killed as many people as our magnutide 5.6 one while being over 10^3 times stronger.
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I'm glad that you were unharmed!!
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this 8.8 got to be higher death toll than the last one in china couple of days ago ( 24 dead , 200 injured)...already had one news piece say they had confirmed atlest 300 dead bodies.
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Long night begins for battered Japan
The Associated Press, Updated: March 11, 2011 21:14 IST
Tokyo: People began stocking up on food and preparing to spend the night in evacuation centres without electricity on Friday after a tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast.
Others found themselves stranded in the centre of the capital Tokyo as the public transport system was shut down. The quake and tsunami have already killed hundreds of people and left many others homeless after it swept away boats, cars and homes.
The death toll was likely to continue climbing given the scale of the disaster.
The magnitude 8.9 offshore quake unleashed a 23-foot (7-meter) tsunami and was followed by more than 50 aftershocks for hours, many of them of more than magnitude 6.0.
Dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometre) stretch of coastline were shaken by violent tremors that reached as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometres) from the epicentre.
Japanese broadcaster NHK reported more than four million buildings were without power in Tokyo and its suburbs.
The US Geological Survey said the 2:46 p.m. quake was a magnitude 8.9, the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s, and one of the biggest ever recorded in the world.
The quake struck at a depth of six miles (10 kilometres), about 80 miles (125 kilometers) off the eastern coast, the agency said. The area is 240 miles (380 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.
The Associated Press, Updated: March 11, 2011 21:14 IST
Tokyo: People began stocking up on food and preparing to spend the night in evacuation centres without electricity on Friday after a tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast.
Others found themselves stranded in the centre of the capital Tokyo as the public transport system was shut down. The quake and tsunami have already killed hundreds of people and left many others homeless after it swept away boats, cars and homes.
The death toll was likely to continue climbing given the scale of the disaster.
The magnitude 8.9 offshore quake unleashed a 23-foot (7-meter) tsunami and was followed by more than 50 aftershocks for hours, many of them of more than magnitude 6.0.
Dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometre) stretch of coastline were shaken by violent tremors that reached as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometres) from the epicentre.
Japanese broadcaster NHK reported more than four million buildings were without power in Tokyo and its suburbs.
The US Geological Survey said the 2:46 p.m. quake was a magnitude 8.9, the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s, and one of the biggest ever recorded in the world.
The quake struck at a depth of six miles (10 kilometres), about 80 miles (125 kilometers) off the eastern coast, the agency said. The area is 240 miles (380 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.
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History of deadly earthquakes
Earthquakes have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the last 100 years and improvements in technology have only slightly reduced the death toll.
11 March 2011
A magnitude 8.9 quake strikes Japan at a depth of 15.1 miles (243km), located 81 miles (130km) east of Sendai, on the main island of Honshu. The tremor triggers a massive tsunami along the Japanese coast and sparks a tsunami warning across the Pacific to North and South America.
22 February 2011
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shatters the New Zealand city of Christchurch, killing more than 160 people and damaging some 100,000 homes.
14 April 2010
At least 400 people die after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes western China's Qinghai province.
27 February 2010
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits central Chile north-east of the second city, Concepcion. Official figures put the total number of people at over 700.
12 January 2010
About 230,000 die in and around the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the city.
30 September 2009
At least 1,000 people die and at least 1,000 remain missing after an earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
6 April 2009
An earthquake hits the historic Italian city of L'Aquila, killing about 300 people.
29 October 2008
Up to 300 people are killed in the Pakistani province of Balochistan after an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude struck 45 miles (70km) north of Quetta.
12 May 2008
Up to 87,000 people are killed or missing and as many as 370,000 injured by an earthquake in just one county in China's south-western Sichuan province.
The tremor, measuring 7.8, struck 57 miles (92km) from the provincial capital Chengdu during the early afternoon.
15 August 2007
At least 519 people are killed in Peru's coastal province of Ica, as a 7.90-magnitude undersea earthquake strikes about 90 miles (145km) south-east of the capital, Lima.
17 July 2006
A 7.7 magnitude undersea earthquake triggers a tsunami that strikes a 125 miles (200km) stretch of the southern coast of Java, killing more than 650 people on the Indonesian island.
27 May 2006
More than 5,700 people die when a magnitude 6.2 quake hits the Indonesian island of Java, devastating the city of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas.
1 April 2006
Seventy people are killed and some 1,200 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.0 strikes a remote region of western Iran.
8 October 2005
An earthquake measuring 7.6 strikes northern Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region, killing more than 73,000 people and leaving millions homeless.
28 March 2005
About 1,300 people are killed in an 8.7 magnitude quake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Nias, west of Sumatra.
22 February 2005
Hundreds die in a 6.4 magnitude quake centred in a remote area near Zarand in Iran's Kerman province.
26 December 2004
Hundreds of thousands are killed across Asia when an earthquake measuring 9.2 triggers sea surges that spread across the region.
24 February 2004
At least 500 people die in an earthquake which strikes towns on Morocco's Mediterranean coast.
26 December 2003
More than 26,000 people are killed when an earthquake destroys the historic city of Bam in southern Iran.
21 May 2003
Algeria suffers its worst earthquake in more than two decades. More than 2,000 people die and more than 8,000 are injured in a quake felt across the sea in Spain.
1 May 2003
More than 160 people are killed, including 83 children in a collapsed dormitory, in south-eastern Turkey.
24 February 2003
More than 260 people die and almost 10,000 homes are destroyed in Xinjiang region, in western China.
31 October 2002
Italy is traumatised by the loss of an entire class of children, killed in the southern village of San Giuliano di Puglia when their school building collapses on them.
26 January 2001
An earthquake measuring magnitude 7.9 devastates much of Gujarat state in north-western India, killing nearly 20,000 people and making more than a million homeless. Bhuj and Ahmedabad are among the towns worst hit.
12 November 1999
Around 400 people die when an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale strikes Ducze, in north-west Turkey.
21 September 1999
Taiwan is hit by a quake measuring 7.6 that kills nearly 2,500 people and causes damage to every town on the island.
17 August 1999
An magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocks the Turkish cities of Izmit and Istanbul, leaving more than 17,000 dead and many more injured.
30 May 1998
Northern Afghanistan is hit by a major earthquake, killing 4,000 people.
May 1997
More than 1,600 killed in Birjand, eastern Iran, in an earthquake of magnitude 7.1.
27 May 1995
The far eastern island of Sakhalin is hit by a massive earthquake, measuring 7.5, which claims the lives of 1,989 Russians.
17 January 1995
The Hyogo quake hits the city of Kobe in Japan, killing 6,430 people.
30 September 1993
About 10,000 villagers are killed in western and southern India.
21 June 1990
About 40,000 people die in a tremor in the northern Iranian province of Gilan.
7 December 1988
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates north-west Armenia, killing 25,000 people.
19 September 1985
Mexico City is shaken by a huge earthquake which razes buildings and kills 10,000 people.
4 March 1977
Some 1,500 people are killed in an earthquake that hit close to the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
28 July 1976
The Chinese city of Tangshan is reduced to rubble in a quake that claims at least 250,000 lives.
23 December 1972
Up to 10,000 people are killed in the Nicaraguan capital Managua by an earthquake that measures 6.5 on the Richter scale. The devastation caused by the earthquake was blamed on badly built high-rise buildings that easily collapsed.
31 May 1970
An earthquake high in the Peruvian Andes triggers a landslide burying the town of Yungay and killing 66,000 people.
26 July 1963
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale strikes the Macedonian capital of Skopje killing 1,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless.
22 May 1960
The world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale. A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages in Chile and kills 61 hundreds of miles away in Hawaii.
1 September 1923
The Great Kanto earthquake, with its epicentre just outside Tokyo, claims the lives of 142,800 people in the Japanese capital.
18 April 1906
San Francisco is hit by a series of violent shocks which last up to a minute. Between 700 and 3,000 people die either from collapsing buildings or in the subsequent fire.
Earthquakes have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the last 100 years and improvements in technology have only slightly reduced the death toll.
11 March 2011
A magnitude 8.9 quake strikes Japan at a depth of 15.1 miles (243km), located 81 miles (130km) east of Sendai, on the main island of Honshu. The tremor triggers a massive tsunami along the Japanese coast and sparks a tsunami warning across the Pacific to North and South America.
22 February 2011
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shatters the New Zealand city of Christchurch, killing more than 160 people and damaging some 100,000 homes.
14 April 2010
At least 400 people die after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes western China's Qinghai province.
27 February 2010
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits central Chile north-east of the second city, Concepcion. Official figures put the total number of people at over 700.
12 January 2010
About 230,000 die in and around the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the city.
30 September 2009
At least 1,000 people die and at least 1,000 remain missing after an earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
6 April 2009
An earthquake hits the historic Italian city of L'Aquila, killing about 300 people.
29 October 2008
Up to 300 people are killed in the Pakistani province of Balochistan after an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude struck 45 miles (70km) north of Quetta.
12 May 2008
Up to 87,000 people are killed or missing and as many as 370,000 injured by an earthquake in just one county in China's south-western Sichuan province.
The tremor, measuring 7.8, struck 57 miles (92km) from the provincial capital Chengdu during the early afternoon.
15 August 2007
At least 519 people are killed in Peru's coastal province of Ica, as a 7.90-magnitude undersea earthquake strikes about 90 miles (145km) south-east of the capital, Lima.
17 July 2006
A 7.7 magnitude undersea earthquake triggers a tsunami that strikes a 125 miles (200km) stretch of the southern coast of Java, killing more than 650 people on the Indonesian island.
27 May 2006
More than 5,700 people die when a magnitude 6.2 quake hits the Indonesian island of Java, devastating the city of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas.
1 April 2006
Seventy people are killed and some 1,200 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.0 strikes a remote region of western Iran.
8 October 2005
An earthquake measuring 7.6 strikes northern Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region, killing more than 73,000 people and leaving millions homeless.
28 March 2005
About 1,300 people are killed in an 8.7 magnitude quake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Nias, west of Sumatra.
22 February 2005
Hundreds die in a 6.4 magnitude quake centred in a remote area near Zarand in Iran's Kerman province.
26 December 2004
Hundreds of thousands are killed across Asia when an earthquake measuring 9.2 triggers sea surges that spread across the region.
24 February 2004
At least 500 people die in an earthquake which strikes towns on Morocco's Mediterranean coast.
26 December 2003
More than 26,000 people are killed when an earthquake destroys the historic city of Bam in southern Iran.
21 May 2003
Algeria suffers its worst earthquake in more than two decades. More than 2,000 people die and more than 8,000 are injured in a quake felt across the sea in Spain.
1 May 2003
More than 160 people are killed, including 83 children in a collapsed dormitory, in south-eastern Turkey.
24 February 2003
More than 260 people die and almost 10,000 homes are destroyed in Xinjiang region, in western China.
31 October 2002
Italy is traumatised by the loss of an entire class of children, killed in the southern village of San Giuliano di Puglia when their school building collapses on them.
26 January 2001
An earthquake measuring magnitude 7.9 devastates much of Gujarat state in north-western India, killing nearly 20,000 people and making more than a million homeless. Bhuj and Ahmedabad are among the towns worst hit.
12 November 1999
Around 400 people die when an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale strikes Ducze, in north-west Turkey.
21 September 1999
Taiwan is hit by a quake measuring 7.6 that kills nearly 2,500 people and causes damage to every town on the island.
17 August 1999
An magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocks the Turkish cities of Izmit and Istanbul, leaving more than 17,000 dead and many more injured.
30 May 1998
Northern Afghanistan is hit by a major earthquake, killing 4,000 people.
May 1997
More than 1,600 killed in Birjand, eastern Iran, in an earthquake of magnitude 7.1.
27 May 1995
The far eastern island of Sakhalin is hit by a massive earthquake, measuring 7.5, which claims the lives of 1,989 Russians.
17 January 1995
The Hyogo quake hits the city of Kobe in Japan, killing 6,430 people.
30 September 1993
About 10,000 villagers are killed in western and southern India.
21 June 1990
About 40,000 people die in a tremor in the northern Iranian province of Gilan.
7 December 1988
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates north-west Armenia, killing 25,000 people.
19 September 1985
Mexico City is shaken by a huge earthquake which razes buildings and kills 10,000 people.
4 March 1977
Some 1,500 people are killed in an earthquake that hit close to the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
28 July 1976
The Chinese city of Tangshan is reduced to rubble in a quake that claims at least 250,000 lives.
23 December 1972
Up to 10,000 people are killed in the Nicaraguan capital Managua by an earthquake that measures 6.5 on the Richter scale. The devastation caused by the earthquake was blamed on badly built high-rise buildings that easily collapsed.
31 May 1970
An earthquake high in the Peruvian Andes triggers a landslide burying the town of Yungay and killing 66,000 people.
26 July 1963
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale strikes the Macedonian capital of Skopje killing 1,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless.
22 May 1960
The world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale. A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages in Chile and kills 61 hundreds of miles away in Hawaii.
1 September 1923
The Great Kanto earthquake, with its epicentre just outside Tokyo, claims the lives of 142,800 people in the Japanese capital.
18 April 1906
San Francisco is hit by a series of violent shocks which last up to a minute. Between 700 and 3,000 people die either from collapsing buildings or in the subsequent fire.
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We had a 7.2 quake in 2005 and i am telling you i couldn't sleep for months after that quake and our japanses friends just got 8.9 quake. OMG I hope there are not many casualties but economically that quake has done his job im telling you. Hope every thing normalize quickly....................
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Might be a good chance to reconcile over the territorial disputes.
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More than 45 nations ready to help quake-hit Japan: UN
The United Nations said on Friday that search and rescue teams from more than 45 countries were ready to head to quake and tsunami-hit Japan if the Asian state needed help.
More than 68 teams from more than 45 countries are on standby, Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told AFP.
The search and rescue teams mobilised under a UN disaster response network are monitoring the situation and ready to help should Japan request aid, she explained.
The UN stands ready to help, said Ms. Byrs.
She told journalists that OCHA experts were in constant contact with their counterparts at Japan's disaster relief authority.
Expressing its deep sympathy and solicitude to the Japanese people, China offered any necessary assistance.
Chinese Primer Wen Jiabao, in a message to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, from Beijing said, China is willing to offer necessary assistance to Tokyo.
Earlier, Chen Jianmin, head of the China Earthquake Administration, said Chinese earthquake rescuers are prepared to go to Japan to join earthquake relief work if needed.
China's International Rescue Team has put its members, equipment, materials and medicines in place and are ready to depart for Japan at any time, Chen told the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The earthquake that rocked Japan was felt as far away as Beijing. China braced to face the ripple effect of the massive tsunami that hit the Japanese coast. Waves measuring up to one metre or less were expected to hit parts of the southern coast including the coast of Guangdong city.
But the Chinese Met officials said it was not expected to have any big impact as it was expected to be weakened by the time it reached the Chinese coast.
Meanwhile, China has stepped relief work by evacuating more than 127,100 people to nearby shelters at Yingjiang County in southwest China's Yunnan Province, where a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Thursday claimed 25 lives.
Over 80 per cent of the homes in Lameng village, the epicentre, collapsed in the quake. However, no serious casualties were reported in the village, Zhao Yunshan, director with the county government's press office said.
Obama calls Naoto
Meanwhile U.S. President Barack Obama called Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan to offer help.
Mr. Obama earlier delayed a scheduled press conference by 75 minutes so that he could get a briefing on the disaster, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said.
The Hindu : News / International : More than 45 nations ready to help quake-hit Japan: UN
The United Nations said on Friday that search and rescue teams from more than 45 countries were ready to head to quake and tsunami-hit Japan if the Asian state needed help.
More than 68 teams from more than 45 countries are on standby, Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told AFP.
The search and rescue teams mobilised under a UN disaster response network are monitoring the situation and ready to help should Japan request aid, she explained.
The UN stands ready to help, said Ms. Byrs.
She told journalists that OCHA experts were in constant contact with their counterparts at Japan's disaster relief authority.
Expressing its deep sympathy and solicitude to the Japanese people, China offered any necessary assistance.
Chinese Primer Wen Jiabao, in a message to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, from Beijing said, China is willing to offer necessary assistance to Tokyo.
Earlier, Chen Jianmin, head of the China Earthquake Administration, said Chinese earthquake rescuers are prepared to go to Japan to join earthquake relief work if needed.
China's International Rescue Team has put its members, equipment, materials and medicines in place and are ready to depart for Japan at any time, Chen told the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The earthquake that rocked Japan was felt as far away as Beijing. China braced to face the ripple effect of the massive tsunami that hit the Japanese coast. Waves measuring up to one metre or less were expected to hit parts of the southern coast including the coast of Guangdong city.
But the Chinese Met officials said it was not expected to have any big impact as it was expected to be weakened by the time it reached the Chinese coast.
Meanwhile, China has stepped relief work by evacuating more than 127,100 people to nearby shelters at Yingjiang County in southwest China's Yunnan Province, where a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Thursday claimed 25 lives.
Over 80 per cent of the homes in Lameng village, the epicentre, collapsed in the quake. However, no serious casualties were reported in the village, Zhao Yunshan, director with the county government's press office said.
Obama calls Naoto
Meanwhile U.S. President Barack Obama called Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan to offer help.
Mr. Obama earlier delayed a scheduled press conference by 75 minutes so that he could get a briefing on the disaster, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said.
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