7.3M Earthquake off the coast of FUKUSHIMA! Tsunami advisory issued.

Tsunami advisory issued, up to 1m high!
Update: I'm reading it may have actually been a 7.1M. Aftershocks ~4.5M.

Time: 2013-10-25 17:10:18.0 UTC
Magnitude: 7.3
Epicenter: 144.65°E 37.19°N
Depth: 10 km

earthquake.usgs.gov...
geofon.gfz-potsdam.de...

Japanese site showing tsunami threat:
www.jma.go.jp...
www3.nhk.or.jp...

OH no, just heard.

"Tsunami advisory issued after 7.3 quake reported off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan", according to CTVNews website. No other information available.

Oh goody.

-EDIT-

"7.3 earthquake reported off the coast of Fukushima, Japan; no tsunami damage is expected", CTVNews.ca

reply to post by SeriousIndividual


Hopefully not a precursor to another large one, but exactly the same mag and very close to the same location as before.

Japan can't handle another big one.

Deleted after OP grabbed link to USGS. Thanks SI.

Wonder if it had anything to do with the large solar flare that the sun fired out today?

Flare

reply to post by SeriousIndividual


How big was the one that caused the nuclear disaster.

Oh my. Here we go. I knew there would be something coming after Antarctica but I certainly was hoping it wouldn't be here. Keep us updated and everyone keep up the thoughts/vibes/love/prayers for those in the area.

Vasa Croe
Wonder if it had anything to do with the large solar flare that the sun fired out today?

Flare

yea I seen that

According to Al Jazeera twitter:

"Yellow" warning of 1-meter tsunami issued for Japan's Fukushima region, due to hit coast in 13 minutes - Japanese weather agency #breaking Retweeted by Al Jazeera America

reply to post by Stormdancer777


Just read that there are multiple flares we are being hit with at the moment so guess it could be a combo punch. Still not positive about the correlation between flares and EQ's but it seems about as sound as any other theories I have read about on causes of EQ's.

reply to post by Vasa Croe


I think the precursor before was a 7.3? So yeah...let's cross our fingers.

reply to post by Kitora


Great....so the fukushima nuke plant will certainly take a hit from this if that is true.

Tsunami warning issued for Fukushima after 7.3 earthquake strikes off coast

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a "yellow" warning early on Saturday morning that a small tsunami would reach the Japanese coast at Fukushima, site of a wrecked nuclear power plant, at 1740 GMT. There were no immediate reports of damage on land from the quake, classified as magnitude 6.8 by Japanese authorities, which struck some 230 miles off Japan's eastern coast.

www.cnbc.com...

Kitora
According to Al Jazeera twitter:

"Yellow" warning of 1-meter tsunami issued for Japan's Fukushima region, due to hit coast in 13 minutes - Japanese weather agency #breaking Retweeted by Al Jazeera America

that's not too bad considering how shallow it was, 10km, hopefully it stays at 1 meter.

Here is a live cam view

Fukushima Daiichi Live Cam View

Lets hope this is minimal for impact.

Vasa Croe
Wonder if it had anything to do with the large solar flare that the sun fired out today?

That's the first thing I thought of.


When I lived in Japan we had tons of earthquakes. Very few caused tsunamis, even with tsunami watches going up. That country is unstable. I don't know who came up with the bright idea to put a nuclear plant on a major fault line let alone make it so it couldn't handle tsunamis ....

from a testimony

First it started out as many of the smaller earthquakes we had the past month but then it became quite intense for a couple seconds and things were rattling and shifting.
I could hear and see people waking up but noone went out because it's heavily raining because of the typhoon.

oh my goodness they are getting hit hard from all sides, wonder what effect they typhoon would have on any waves if there are any generated?

Being reported on the major news networks now.

reply to post by Wrabbit2000


Don't they have a couple of big storms impacting them right now too? How much more bad luck can that place take???