Japan Earthquake time lapse animation

[Cris N]

Very interesting piece on the recent earthquake activity in Japan. http://news.discovery.com/earth/tim...japans-earthquakes-110315.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1 – You’ll get a message that you need to go to YouTube for the video. Just click on the link.

or you can just use this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xylDxj6-9dY&feature=player_embedded


The upper left corner shows the ‘real-time’ 3/9/11 until 8.9 (now 9.0) until 05:35 on 3/14/11 (you can double-click to get full-screen mode).

There have been approximately 253 quakes of 4.0 or greater since this was created.

 

[Duffey]

Very scary stuff. Thanks Cris for posting this. It serves as a constant reminder to me of how lucky I am.

 

[nngbwh]

No kidding scary stuff. Life is TOO fragile. You need to lived life to the fullest and appreciate each second, each minute, each hour, each day, each months, each year. Thanks for posting, Cris.

 

[Greg a]

I would like to see the same on a world wide basis

 

[Cris N]

I would like to see the same on a world wide basis

Just to offer a perspective...from approx. 02:00 on 3/8 until today these are the earthquakes around the world with magnitude of 4.0 or greater:
Honshu Japan region: 624
Rest of the world: 99