Two powerful earthquakes have struck near the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, a day after a tremor there killed at least nine people.
The quakes - a magnitude 7.1 (4.4 miles) at a depth of 7km and a 7.4 at a depth of 40km (25 miles) - came in quick succession, officials said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36059487
Prayers up. They’re going to need them.
Yesterday at another FR site I expressed the concern that Thursday’s 6.4 quake might just be a foreshock.
It’s not often that I hate when I am right. I am listening to Japan news. They called the Thursday quake a 6.4, and this one a 7.3. So far only 3 deaths, but I expect many more, and 470 at hospitals with broken bones and other injuries. They keep repeating the same short information of about 3 minutes with the same photos over and over. I suspect that means they are having a really hard time getting their photographers and news crews out and back to the studio. Now they have showed views of roads destroyed by landslides and report bridge damage. Rescues being attempted in collapsed apartments and houses. The nuclear plant nearby is OK for now.
I have written here more than once about my observation of what may be a 90 year earth cycle over the past few centuries. It seems to have about 30 years beginning and ending with a major volcanic eruption, and serious earthquakes within the cycle. We are at the end of the most recent 30 years, but so far no major eruption like Tambora or Katmai. Lots of big earthquakes however. After the action cycle, then things become quieter for around 60 years. Hope to be wrong about the volcano. Another person commenting hear wrote about Sakarujima, a volcano on the edge of a 15 mile diameter caldera which blew about 22,000 years ago. Looking at world temperature charts shows a noticeable temperature drop at 22,000 kya.