Japan Honshu 8.9 Quake. My question ...Were warnings issued after 7.2 Quake on Thursday... Tsunami Damage Reports &Watch

Okay... my first question here is was the area issued any sort of warnings for a Strong Quake after the 7.2 Quake on March 9th, which to me was a pretty big Quake. However, the 7.2 on 3/9 came amidst a series of several quakes over several days that were all in the 5 and 6 point range. I would have thought with that sort of seismic activity they might have thought that 7.2 was NOT the big one as we know this morning.

When I first heard about the quake this morning, someone said did you hear about the Quake in Japan? I was half asleep, I said with a yawn, "yeah, it's been real busy the last few days, they had a really big one the other day" and went back to sleep. Just as I was stepping in the shower, my brother called hysterical to put on CNN ....

And, is it possible that an aftershock of the 8.9 could be even as strong or stronger which has happened often in places such as Haiti last year. It is realistic to expect another quake above 8.5 in the next 48 hours or so for that region and those quake can create tsunamis also.

Right now all eyes are on Pacifica, Crescent City in other ports of low lying call along the West Coast of America where harbors are close to sea level unlike the houses perched high on cliffs above Santa Barbara. Many beaches in California are low lying and then you hit a cliff, a high cliff where most people have built their homes. You see this in Laguna, however you also have stores on streets closer to the beach. Venice Beach for one is sea level, give or take and the shops there could suffer possible damage from a small, but strong tsunami whereas other areas are far inland.

This is where topography and geology make a difference.

Islands in Alaska, traditionally have homes built up high whereas the boats docked in the harbor are still low lying.

It's nice to say there was no major damage in Hawaii, but if that's your big boat turned over on top of someone's car in the harbor... you would consider the damage from the Tsunami in Hawaii as BIG. It's all relative. Miami was told Katrina was no big deal, because it paled in comparison to what the people in the Gulf Coast went through but had Katrina not hit Mississippi then Katrina hitting Miami would have been THE STORY of the year from a meteorological point of view.

Will post pictures later. But for now..watch cities such as:

Pacifica
Crescent City

Venice Beach
Marina Del Rey
Point Reyes

The list goes on and on... many Malibu beach homes are up on the cliffs.. many are not and are ocean front.

Besos Bobbi
Ps back with more images and info after the Tsunami hits the West Coast and we see if this was hyped or not hyped enough.

Again, I want to know why this Quake was not EXPECTED after the 7.2 quake on 3/9/11.

Another question is the one that everyone on www.canetalk.com have been going crazy with the last few weeks, that is were the Solar X Flares connected to this seismic activity?? It's time for us as scientists and historians to start connecting some dots.



MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s LAT
deg LON
deg DEPTH
km Region
MAP 4.8 2011/03/09 23:57:42 38.308 143.275 20.0 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.4 2011/03/09 23:37:01 38.438 143.185 32.8 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 2011/03/09 22:41:30 36.589 -121.186 4.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 2011/03/09 22:17:41 35.272 -92.344 4.2 ARKANSAS
MAP 6.5 2011/03/09 21:24:52 -6.022 149.659 29.0 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 6.1 2011/03/09 21:22:18 38.385 142.642 23.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 4.9 2011/03/09 21:00:58 38.267 142.580 22.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.5 2011/03/09 20:48:31 35.243 -92.397 5.9 ARKANSAS
MAP 6.0 2011/03/09 18:44:35 38.502 143.199 23.0 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.5 2011/03/09 18:28:33 18.470 -67.398 18.7 MONA PASSAGE, PUERTO RICO
MAP 3.6 2011/03/09 18:25:27 52.441 -174.552 167.1 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 6.1 2011/03/09 18:16:15 38.378 142.506 22.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 4.9 2011/03/09 17:57:27 18.714 121.430 59.9 LUZON, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.5 2011/03/09 16:12:03 36.240 -114.504 14.3 NEVADA
MAP 2.5 2011/03/09 15:58:01 51.810 -176.265 106.8 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 2011/03/09 14:24:06 38.589 143.226 10.0 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.3 2011/03/09 13:57:28 8.631 92.395 23.2 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 3.2 2011/03/09 13:55:24 32.191 -115.277 10.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 13:51:42 -20.216 -174.350 132.5 TONGA
MAP 5.0 2011/03/09 13:24:08 -27.462 -68.853 108.0 CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA
MAP 2.7 2011/03/09 12:56:36 51.646 -174.029 5.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.6 2011/03/09 12:14:14 32.619 -115.746 12.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.7 2011/03/09 12:03:18 38.358 143.119 13.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 11:27:52 38.529 143.040 28.2 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.5 2011/03/09 11:05:09 19.403 -75.384 5.0 CUBA REGION
MAP 4.7 2011/03/09 10:13:40 38.721 143.090 27.2 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.6 2011/03/09 09:45:13 51.147 -172.586 20.3 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 4.8 2011/03/09 08:55:38 38.667 143.055 15.6 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.3 2011/03/09 08:37:30 18.066 -68.122 84.1 MONA PASSAGE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP 5.3 2011/03/09 08:02:36 38.606 143.103 15.4 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 07:56:28 38.849 142.929 10.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.0 2011/03/09 07:13:48 38.246 143.108 9.9 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 06:25:12 38.299 143.067 10.8 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 4.9 2011/03/09 06:12:13 38.681 143.022 10.0 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 4.7 2011/03/09 05:27:06 37.830 145.135 10.0 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.3 2011/03/09 04:45:54 38.543 142.740 27.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.7 2011/03/09 04:37:04 38.666 142.991 25.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.2 2011/03/09 04:32:10 38.727 143.001 32.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.0 2011/03/09 04:17:17 34.280 -116.839 6.7 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.8 2011/03/09 04:15:39 38.857 142.658 12.6 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.2 2011/03/09 04:05:54 38.870 142.420 10.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.0 2011/03/09 03:19:00 38.795 142.962 19.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.2 2011/03/09 03:08:36 38.339 143.097 24.4 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.6 2011/03/09 02:57:17 38.402 142.825 17.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 7.2 2011/03/09 02:45:20 38.424 142.836 32.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 4.6 2011/03/09 01:47:47 52.893 160.683 25.0 OFF THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 4.7 2011/03/09 01:30:27 -19.410 171.907 19.3 VANUATU REGION