My friend said his building was shaking. I was there last week, didn’t feel it in Tokyo. Looks like some tsunami alerts have been sent. Seing some bad videos from hualien
7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
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Think of it as a 3m tall bulldozer the width of the country with effectively unlimited pushing power. Watch some videos of the Japan tsunami, it's basically an unstoppable force that gobbles up everything in it's path. Very uncool.
It's generally very bad, but it also depends on the shoreline. If your city is on the coast at sea level with no real barrier, it's devastating. If there's a big cliff and everything is at higher elevation, you can ignore it. Unfortunately, people tend to build settlements at sea level.
We should set up some stone monuments to delineate the high water mark, for future generations.
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#93The Circle line has dislodged https://www.setn.com/News.aspx?NewsID=1448651 Live stream of news about the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SydScnOrmf8 There's been pretty big aftershocks like clockwork after, it's gonna be a hard day. My dog is freaked out, my fish tanks are half empty, we're not sure if we can open the restaurant since the MRT is closed and our chef lives quite far, and that's just life in…
What kind of restaurant do you have?
Re: 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
#94The Circle line has dislodged https://www.setn.com/News.aspx?NewsID=1448651 Live stream of news about the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SydScnOrmf8 There's been pretty big aftershocks like clockwork after, it's gonna be a hard day. My dog is freaked out, my fish tanks are half empty, we're not sure if we can open the restaurant since the MRT is closed and our chef lives quite far, and that's just life in…
What kind of restaurant do you have?
Southern fried chicken biscuit. So far as we know, first of its kind in Taiwan. https://www.thejispot.com/
Re: 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
#95Japan’s meteorological agency forecast a tsunami of up to 3 meters (9.8 feet) for those curious https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/02/taiwan-earth...
3 m sound not too bad?
It’s not really a wave, it is more of a tide that comes in quickly. So everything gets flooded to 3m above the normal water level, and stays that way for a while.
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That first one with the leaning building...have they not seen footage from 9/11 or any disaster movie about how far the debris field can travel in an uncontrolled building collapse? That's a definite nope from me.
Most of the pictures are a little misleading for distance etc, as well as time. When people are close to the building is before the fire department arrived, and people are trying to get other people out of the building. It sounds like they're relatively situationally aware, warning eachother about live cables, gas, etc. Obviously there's a risk of death but there's also a risk of your old neighbor getting squashed if…
If you're a lookie-loo with your phone camera out, you're not very concerned about your neighbor. You're shooting disaster porn for the likes
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#97Last time this happened in Taiwan buildings collapsed and peopled died because corrupt local construction companies had put too much sand in their concrete to save money.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Follow-up question. I understand how Richter Scale + depth could be useful, academically. But when communicating with the public, wouldn't it be easier to have a single number - rather than requiring the public to understand the relationship between two different quantities? Maybe: surface-equivalent Richter scale? Of course transitioning to a new standard would be even more confusing for a while. Edit: apparently th…
In Japan for domestic quakes they always report the Shindo scale (based on surface peak ground acceleration) instead of Magnitude. It’s way more useful a measure IMHO and whenever I see western news report use M it tells me nothing about how bad the quake actually was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency_se...
We have a similar measure (MMI) in the US, but it's harder to report a local measure in a single article.
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#99this guy is right again at predicting these earth quakes: https://twitter.com/ssgeos/status/1775146068079960148
Re: 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's generally very bad, but it also depends on the shoreline. If your city is on the coast at sea level with no real barrier, it's devastating. If there's a big cliff and everything is at higher elevation, you can ignore it. Unfortunately, people tend to build settlements at sea level.
We should set up some stone monuments to delineate the high water mark, for future generations.
Same but different, there's an old town near a lake that suffered a devastating flood way back in its history. The downtown area has markers on the buildings that show the high water mark for the flood.