[quote]An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 struck Tottori Prefecture in western Japan on Friday afternoon. The Japan Meteorological Agency says there is no tsunami theat.
The jolt registered 6 minus on the Japanese seismic scale of 0 to 7 in central Tottori. The focus was 10 kilometers deep in the prefecture.
There are some reports of injuries and houses collapsing.
About 30,000 households in the prefecture are without power.[/quote]
[url]http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20161021_27/[/url]
I do not live in the region so I am fine but I hope everybody there is okay.
As recommended by Bradyns, a USGS intensity map:
[t]http://earthquake.usgs.gov/realtime/product/shakemap/us20007fta/us/1477034997287/download/intensity.jpg[/t]
It is not extremely terrible but the media is going full sensationalist as if it is, as usual. Even my grandmother who watches TV all the time is tired of it.
Felt this in Kyoto, but was only near a 4ish on the scale of Richter, first time I've experienced an earthquake, weird feeling
Didn't feel anything in Yokosuka.
[QUOTE=Hardpoint Nomad;51238198]Didn't feel anything in Yokosuka.[/QUOTE]
Of course not, this happened slightly west of Osaka and Yokosuka is all the way up near Tokyo, in east Japan.
[QUOTE=Hardpoint Nomad;51238198]Didn't feel anything in Yokosuka.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://stn.moe/i/swREYTqI.png[/img]
You would need a very sensitive feeling to feel it all the way over there.
Looks like it was a relatively shallow one as well, according to the USGS.
[URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20007fta#origin"]M6.2 - 8km S of Kurayoshi, Japan[/URL]
Hopefully everyone's okay
So that's what that was.
Hey, I felt it too!!!! (Hyogo)
I wonder what the water at the Inland Sea would look like during the earthquake.
[QUOTE=shutter_eye5;51238225]Looks like it was a relatively shallow one as well, according to the USGS.
[URL="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20007fta#origin"]M6.2 - 8km S of Kurayoshi, Japan[/URL]
Hopefully everyone's okay[/QUOTE]
Really wish OP's would throw the USGS map/details in; they are really comprehensive.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;51238532]Really wish OP's would throw the USGS map/details in; they are really comprehensive.[/QUOTE]
Done.
Looks quite localised for the size of the tremor. Maybe upper-crust epicenter?
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