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7.1 Earthquake in Japan

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Re: 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

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Post by kalleboo »

ktallett wrote: post #68
akg_67 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NHK TV is showing extensive damage including fallen smokestacks at Nippon Paper Factory facility, bridge road separation, fallen bridge lane, road cracks, fire, water coming out of drainage etc. It was a huge earthquake and will take some time to assess the damage.

There is a collapsed roof of a shopping centre as well in Kumamoto. The Aeon Mall.

The mall had a (most likely gas) explosion, and there are many dead being found inside https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2833412?display=1

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Post by smj-edison »

kalleboo wrote: post #61
dopa42365 wrote: post #57

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Not like earthquakes are unheard of in Taiwan or South Korea either. Buildings are going to be more expensive (base isolation and an extra commie blocks worth of reinforced concrete), but given how expensive fab equipment is, that might not even matter all that much.

Earthquake isolation can be pretty amazing. Here’s a video of a data center during the big 2011 quake. The camera is attached to the outer wall so the point of reference makes the wrong side look like it’s shaking, but you can see the people walking without difficulty during some pretty heavy shaking. A fab will have even better stuff. https://youtu.be/GXwQSCStRaw

Wow, it's incredible how far civil engineering has come in the past 600 years. To think that we used to have bridges collapse all the time, and buildings crack and collapse, and now we have buildings that can withstand a whole earthquake.

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Post by traceroute66 »

kalleboo wrote: post #71
ktallett wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a collapsed roof of a shopping centre as well in Kumamoto. The Aeon Mall.

The mall had a (most likely gas) explosion, and there are many dead being found inside https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2833412?display=1

> The mall had a (most likely gas) explosion

If the internet searches are to be believed, that is indeed sadly likely to be the cause.

The internet suggests the explosion happened on the second floor of the mall where a large food court is located.

Re: 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

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Post by inclinq »

I'm in Fukuoka. We had shindo 3 here.

My phone alarm went off just before the shaking, but the thing that really surprised me was how strong it felt. I instinctively ran outside.

I hope everyone closer to the epicenter is safe.

Re: 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

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Post by embedding-shape »

shoobiedoo wrote: post #43

Fukuoka here (about 100km from Kumamoto) and definitely felt it, so it must have been a real big one in Kumamoto itself. My friend was driving home from work closer to Miyazaki and didn't feel the quake, but had huge hailstones hitting his car. There's a rapture going on or something

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Re: 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

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Post by goginko »

This was my first real earthquake since moving to Kyushu. After it stopped I looked it up, and the first place to post the epicenter and shindo was NERV's twitter...which is named after the org from the anime and has an anime screenshot as its banner (https://x.com/EN_NERV). Apparently it's a real disaster information service, though.

It's been mentioned before but maybe interesting to some (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38835419).

Re: 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

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Post by klausa »

goginko wrote: post #78

This was my first real earthquake since moving to Kyushu. After it stopped I looked it up, and the first place to post the epicenter and shindo was NERV's twitter...which is named after the org from the anime and has an anime screenshot as its banner ( https://x.com/EN_NERV ). Apparently it's a real disaster information service, though. It's been mentioned before but maybe interesting to some ( https://news.ycombinat…

It started as a Twitter account during the Tohoku 2011 earthquake, and then subsequently became a “real” service; the IP owners for the Eva agreed to let them use it going forward.
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