This was fascinating to watch. I’m in South West Tokyo, and I could feel the left-right shakes and then the “sway” shakes and finally the long slow shaking…but never understood that they’re different types of waves of hitting at different times! Thanks for showing this.
@SVT-ny8ee2 жыл бұрын
Amplitude
@SVT-ny8ee2 жыл бұрын
2 earthquake happened. First earthquake magnitude 6 and then the main shock happened as a magnitude 7.3 ,2 minutes later....
@sowhenthen2 жыл бұрын
The waves you felt were both S waves, shear waves. The P wave is the primary wave, it moves much faster and isn't normally felt far away from the epicenter.
@SVT-ny8ee2 жыл бұрын
@@sowhenthen Actually, P wave can travel a lot more than S wave.
Its amazing to see the power difference between a 6.4 and a 7.3. its only a difference of .9 but the duration and severity of the quakes is exponential. I hope people are safe who were closer to the epicenter.
@K_tamumayu2 жыл бұрын
2011年の東日本大震災はマグニチュード9,0です
@denelson832 жыл бұрын
It's roughly an 8:1 ratio. Remember earthquake magnitude values are logarithmic, like values expressed in decibels.
You need to see the whole video because there is two earthquake. The first one was Magnitude 6 and the second one happened in 2 minutes apart as a magnitude 7.3. There is two earthquake early warning has been issued. You can hear the alert in the tv
Here in chilw we have many eartquakes too. The mountain of andes protects argentina from getting eartquakes and chaos. Mountains in eartquakes are like a barrier to the shaking.
This must have been pretty close to the epicenter!
@YukuriMizuka2 жыл бұрын
Even this is 250 kilometers away from the epicenter.
@YukuriMizuka2 жыл бұрын
Expressed in miles, it is 156.6 miles.
@月柚-k5j2 жыл бұрын
I live far away from the epicenter. But my place shook as much as this video
@computertutorials12862 жыл бұрын
As the other person stated this was nearly 160 mi from Fukushima, and was 'only' Shindo 4. It was 6+ at the epicenter, and in Kawasaki the max PGA was 19 times higher.
@Retu_Kirinuki2 жыл бұрын
知ってるか? 宮城県民と福島県民はいちばん怖い思いをしたんだぞ? You know what? The people of Miyagi and Fukushima were the most scared of all?