"198 earthquakes on this map"
Mar. 12th, 2011 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanMy brain continues to go all 'splody as aftershocks continue to shake, rattle, and roll around Japan.
198 earthquakes? I simply can't fathom it. Especially with 23 of them coming it at magnitude 6 and higher, and another 118 between 5.0 and 5.9. There was a 6.8 a full 20 hours after the biggest of the lot, the 8.9 that's since been upgraded to 9.0. And another 22 between 5.0 and 7.2 in the 2 days before the big one hit. As if 7.2 wasn't already a big one. As if 6.5 wasn't, either.
My thoughts and prayers are with all who are there feeling the still-rumbling earth as they work on dealing with the devastation at hand. And my thanks and admiration to all who helped make Japan the best-prepared country in the world for the twin disasters of earthquake and tsunami. We'll never know exactly how many lives were saved today, but I'll bet it's easily an order of magnitude more than were lost.
The count is now up to 202 earthquakes on that map.
There's something about the numbers that keep bending my mind. It's hundreds of earthquakes, not just the one we're all talking about. Tsunami waves traveling 10 kilometers inland. Yes, the caption for the photo of the houses ablaze after being swept out to sea held an abundance of OMG awfulness, the fires adding insult to the injury brought by all that water, but it's the numbers I simply can't wrap my brain around.
Here's hoping Mount Fuji remains dormant.
198 earthquakes? I simply can't fathom it. Especially with 23 of them coming it at magnitude 6 and higher, and another 118 between 5.0 and 5.9. There was a 6.8 a full 20 hours after the biggest of the lot, the 8.9 that's since been upgraded to 9.0. And another 22 between 5.0 and 7.2 in the 2 days before the big one hit. As if 7.2 wasn't already a big one. As if 6.5 wasn't, either.
My thoughts and prayers are with all who are there feeling the still-rumbling earth as they work on dealing with the devastation at hand. And my thanks and admiration to all who helped make Japan the best-prepared country in the world for the twin disasters of earthquake and tsunami. We'll never know exactly how many lives were saved today, but I'll bet it's easily an order of magnitude more than were lost.
The count is now up to 202 earthquakes on that map.
There's something about the numbers that keep bending my mind. It's hundreds of earthquakes, not just the one we're all talking about. Tsunami waves traveling 10 kilometers inland. Yes, the caption for the photo of the houses ablaze after being swept out to sea held an abundance of OMG awfulness, the fires adding insult to the injury brought by all that water, but it's the numbers I simply can't wrap my brain around.
Here's hoping Mount Fuji remains dormant.
