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M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by bell-cot »

piazz wrote: post #19

Felt it all the way in Tokyo! There is this amazing app called NERV that, whenever there is a large earthquake anywhere in Japan, sends you an early warning push notification and an animated display with shockwaves emanating from the epicenter, plus a countdown timer for the first wave hitting you. The first it went off for me it felt like something out of sci-fi. I think I got 45 seconds this time before my apartmen…

> Felt it all the way in Tokyo!

How many stories above the ground, and might you guess at your building's construction (wood frame, steel frame, etc.) and foundations (on bedrock, on loose sediments, etc.)?

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by Xenoamorphous »

piazz wrote: post #19

Felt it all the way in Tokyo! There is this amazing app called NERV that, whenever there is a large earthquake anywhere in Japan, sends you an early warning push notification and an animated display with shockwaves emanating from the epicenter, plus a countdown timer for the first wave hitting you. The first it went off for me it felt like something out of sci-fi. I think I got 45 seconds this time before my apartmen…

Receiving one of those sounds really scary.

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by Der_Einzige »

mghackerlady wrote: post #39
azath92 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just the best. A very serious company, doing seriously cool and important stuff, also has an anime name/icon. I wish more corps took themselves so lightly, while remaining serious about what they do.

For people unfamiliar wanting an easier comparison, Evangelion is Japans star wars. It'd be like learning of tornadoes from someone with Empire insignia

Evangelion is so mega overrated of an anime im experiencing second hand embarrassment on behalf of Japan for letting its national personaification be exlempified by shinji.

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by Der_Einzige »

mghackerlady wrote: post #41
pezezin wrote: post #9

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Evangelion is extremely popular in Japan, everybody and their dog knows it, so it is obviously the second option. From the official app website, https://nerv.app/en/ > The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series.

Evangelion is their Star Wars, at least in terms of merchandising and cultural references. I think I heard somewhere that it's known more for the pachinko machines than the actual media

How can any show with the beginning scene of the “end of evangelion” be the Star Wars or anything? Luke skywalker didn’t feel the need to choke his chicken to a knocked out Leia, but this is exactly what shinji does in the first scene of the end of evangelion.

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by philistine »

strangegecko wrote: post #40
Aboutplants wrote: post #28

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45 seconds is an incredible accomplishment. That’s a decent amount of heads up to get safer place. Obviously nerve wracking but great progress in alerts

Yeah. That's leagues better than what I get in Taiwan. The alert often arrives when the building is shaking or even after. I've never had a meaningful headstart.

It would seem the forewarning depends a lot on the distance from the epicentre. This quake, for Tokyoites, was far enough from them that they could beat the earthquake's speed. I'm fairly certain the people on the East Coast near the quake got no notification ahead of the event.

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by vladgur »

piazz wrote: post #21
kzrdude wrote: post #20

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How do you use your 45 seconds?

If it's a big one and it's near you, you'd move away from the windows and heavy things that can fall, I suppose? For me I always just turn on iPhone screen recording and marvel at this amazing app and wish we had something like this in California.

We do - gave me a few second warning of a 4-point one a month or so ago

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myshake-earthquake-alerts/id14...

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by chimeracoder »

mghackerlady wrote: post #39
azath92 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just the best. A very serious company, doing seriously cool and important stuff, also has an anime name/icon. I wish more corps took themselves so lightly, while remaining serious about what they do.

For people unfamiliar wanting an easier comparison, Evangelion is Japans star wars. It'd be like learning of tornadoes from someone with Empire insignia

> Evangelion is Japans star wars

Which is funny to say because Star Wars is actually the Western version of samurai movies (especially but not exclusively Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress).

That's the movie that Lucas is pretty open about heavily drawing "inspiration" from (all the way down to specific characters and plot beats) but Hidden Fortress is itself part of a larger genre of similar stories.

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by ricardobayes »

piazz wrote: post #19

Felt it all the way in Tokyo! There is this amazing app called NERV that, whenever there is a large earthquake anywhere in Japan, sends you an early warning push notification and an animated display with shockwaves emanating from the epicenter, plus a countdown timer for the first wave hitting you. The first it went off for me it felt like something out of sci-fi. I think I got 45 seconds this time before my apartmen…

Hmm, why does this needs to be an app and not the built-in alert notification system? Outsourcing critical infrastructure and emergency services to private parties is always a terrible idea.

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by ricardobayes »

azath92 wrote: post #37
roer wrote: post #32

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It is straight up the same NERV, so it might. From the site: > The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series.

This is just the best. A very serious company, doing seriously cool and important stuff, also has an anime name/icon. I wish more corps took themselves so lightly, while remaining serious about what they do.

A private organization delivering critical infrastructure and emergency services. Just no. Not even if it has a cutesy anime external shell. It always ends up being a race to the bottom by the nature of it.
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