New 6.8 EQ in Japan being reported

[MNeagle]

Reuters: Japan issue tsunami warning after reports of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake 85 miles south east of Hachinohe




Update: No tsunami warning or watch after 6.8 magnitude earthquake east of Japan - @Reuters (http://twitter.com/Reuters)

http://www.breakingnews.com/



Still no story yet, just the updated tsunami alert cancellation. Also don't know why breakingnews stopped covering earthquakes. They used to list the USGS news...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html reports it a 6.7 off the coast

[Horn]

In the 3 months since the April quake, Japan's coast has been displaced by ~61cm (2ft.)

http://www.gsi.go.jp/cais/topic110315.2-index-e.html

[keehah]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-06-22-Japan-earthquake-tsunami_n.htm

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the quake that hit at 6:50 a.m. Thursday.

It was offshore of Honshu island, and was some 325 miles northeast of Tokyo, the USGS said. The quake was 19.9 miles deep.


Later that same day, or earlier that night (thanks to poor reporting standards) further south:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5174684/Overnight-Christchurch-quake-upgraded

22/06/2011

June 22 aftershock in Christchurch

A sharp quake which rocked Christchurch last night has been upgraded to a magnitude 5.4.

The quake rocked the region at 10.34pm and was followed by a further 10 aftershocks overnight, with the biggest being a magnitude 4.4 shortly before 3.30am.

A Christchurch supermarket sustained more damage in the 5.4 aftershock than it did during the February 22 or June 13 quakes.

A Halswell New World staff member said "everything fell off every shelf". The store lost "an extensive amount of stock" with wine and juice bottles smashed in the aisles.

About a dozen staff came in to clean up the mess for four hours last night.

The main jolt was first thought to be centred 10km west of Akaroa, but GNS seismologist John Ristau said this morning that records now show it was centred just 10km south of Christchurch city, near Halswell.

The New World staffer, who did not want to be named, said she was not surprised to hear the earthquake centre was actually close to Halswell.

"It must have been centred near here because this is the most amount of damage we have sustained this year."

Following the midnight clean-up the supermarket opened on schedule at 7.30am today.

Mayor Bob Parker, on his Facebook page, said the city should expect a few more "tremblers"

GNS Science duty seismologist John Ristau said it appeared another small fault below Banks Peninsula had ruptured, causing the sharply felt magnitude 5.4 quake.

"You are sitting on hard volcanic rocks there and when it breaks, it tends to break very strongly, producing a lot of shaking and energy."

By 11.30pm the GeoNet website had more than 1000 "felt reports" from as far afield as Paraparaumu and Invercargill.

[keehah]

NewZealand then Japan then Alaska. What's next?

7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes the Aleutian Islands near Alaska (http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/7-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-the-aleutian-islands-near-alaska/)

– A magnitude 7.4 (later downgraded to a 7.2) earthquake in the northern Pacific Ocean has triggered a tsunami warning along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. A tsunami alert was immediately issued for California and the rest of the West Coast and was later canceled when geologist discovered the depth of the quake was actually 62 km instead of the 13km, initially reported. The quake, which was centered in the Fox Islands area, about 1,000 miles southwest of Anchorage, struck [June 23, 2011] about 8:09 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.

LATimes (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/74-earthquake-in-alaskas-aleutian-islands-triggers-tsunami-warning.html)