Japan earthquake factbox: Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches

Vancouver Sun ^ | March 11, 2011

[oldbill]

Bush’s fault.

[NYer]

This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global bathymetry map image released on March 11, 2011 shows features of the ocean floor depth (or bathymetry) from NOAA s ETOPO-1 dataset. The image shows the entire Western Pacific basin. Notice how abruptly the Japanese islands rise out of the ocean. Other coastal Asian areas have much more gradual slopes. The islands and mountain ranges throughout the ocean, visible in this imagery, also affect the tsunami travel time and speed. In the open ocean, tsunamis can travel at speeds up to 800 kph.

[GreyFriar]

earthquake moves earth’s axis

[ClearCase_guy]

If the Earth’s axis has shifted, I imagine that might impact global warming in one direction or another.

[griswold3]

‘St Louis, Missouri media outlets report that city has moved an inch as a result of the quake.’

What?

[kjam22]

Maybe the EPA will write regulations with penalties to be enforced by the IRS against moving the earth’s axis.

[UCANSEE2]

PING.

See, I wouldn’t lie to ya!

[Hotlanta Mike]

Earth’s axis has reportedly shifted ten inches as a result of the quake, and Japan’s coast is said to have permanently shifted 2.4 metres.

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You would think this type of event would have an impact on climates worldwide...

[eak3]

Im blaming it on the Bush and the Supermoon

[UCANSEE2]

‘St Louis, Missouri media outlets report that city has moved an inch as a result of the quake.’

Yeah, when I saw the first video, I was moved too. About an inch away from the Monitor.

[kjam22]

Earth’s diameter 7,926 miles. Axis shift 10 inches. We’ll be okay. It’s not gonna snow at the equator.

[dljordan]

“Bush’s fault.”

You’re so easily fooled! It was Cheney and his earthquake machine. Hah!

[rellimpank]

--I think I'll change my byline to "don't believe anything the media says"---

[winner3000]

“Bush’s fault”

Something similar popped into my head the first time I read the headline: It’s because of global warming!

[RummyChick]

The SuperMoon guy still hasn’t posted on his website or Twitter about the current event. Seems odd as he was predicting something like this could happen. It is a couple of days outside his time frame. One was March 1-7

[mrsmith]

Quakes in the Honshu area don’t seem to have slowed down any.
4 - 5 Richters coming at about 15 min intervals.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

Doesn’t sound good to me but admittedly I’m not educated on ‘aftershock’ behavior.

[mass55th]

"What?"

Ditto!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

The vertical spray would be quite a sight after the wall of water hit that coastline, eh?

[hattend]

St Louis moved an inch due to the quake? Really?