This is a visualization of the Earthquakes Japan had in 2011, the year of the massive tsunami. It's easy to understand, and you can tell just when the earth started to shake. The chart takes off in March, btw.
This is a visualization of the Earthquakes Japan had in 2011, the year of the massive tsunami. It's easy to understand, and you can tell just when the earth started to shake. The chart takes off in March, btw.
19000 earthquakes in one year with almost 700 of them above M5. 
Wow, I don't think I want to live in Japan.
Well, that escalated quickly
OK, that's insane
I think I'll stay right here, thank you very much. Makes you wonder how any sort of a civilization was able to take hold there.
Curmudgeon wrote:
you just include the constantly shaking earth into your mythology and build your houses out of paper..
Aw hayel naw!
Yes, I know they are designed to flex, but I can't imagine standing on an upper floor of one of these buildings and taking video of movement which can probably be measured in feet.
Ugh. I have a fear of heights anyway, the idea of standing in one of those during a quake is really nauseating.
Wowsers. Shakey place, isn't it.
As an aside, I wonder what caused this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM to be on the sidebar of the shaking building video?
Streetwiseguy wrote: Wowsers. Shakey place, isn't it. As an aside, I wonder what caused this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM to be on the sidebar of the shaking building video?
Goog/YouTube filter bubbles. It's getting to the point where I can hardly find what I'm really looking for because of that nonsense.
Great Kanto Quake, 1923:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAQ3bqFs2s
carzan wrote: Aw hayel naw! Skyscraper Dance Yes, I know they are designed to flex, but I can't imagine standing on an upper floor of one of these buildings and taking video of movement which can probably be measured in feet.
I clearly remember being in a beach house on pilings in Cherry Point, NC during a pretty nasty windstorm. The house twisted in the wind, it moved probably six inches at a time and then returned as the wind gusts died down, it was slow but very noticeable. It made me ill to the point where I couldn't look out the windows. I can't imagine being in one of those skyscrapers while it's doing the Watusi.
I heard Cathrine Hepburn LOVED that place.
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