Saturday, May 21, 2011

Quake Timeline

Here is a website that shows a visual and a timeline of all of the quakes that have happened in Japan since March 11th.

http://www.japanquakemap.com/

If you click the option "sticky dots" and press play, you can see each quake happen on the map.  It takes a while to get through all of it, so I would suggest pressing fast-forward as well.  There are 1,221 quakes recorded on the map in Japan from March 11th to today.

Please keep in mind that earthquakes have been common in Japan forever and happen on a daily basis normally, just not usually with such magnitude or rapid succession.



-Lana

2 comments:

  1. Wow. Quite a light show. Have you felt any of the more recent ones?
    Thanks for sharing that.
    Hope all is well.

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  2. Actually, the morning I posted about this there was another minor one that we were able to feel here (and actually I just felt one right now).
    They have gotten a lot less frequent but it's still pretty amazing. I haven't felt any big ones in a while though.

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