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smithinjapan
Wow.... for it to shake Moscow that far away it had to have been pretty powerful. Glad no tsunami occurred.
nandakandamanda
How usual is an earthquake in this area, I wonder?
C Harald Hansen
Earthquakes there are common, earthquakes of magnitute 9 and 8 have happened several times over the centuries.
noriyosan73
Although it was an M8, this event was good for the area. As long as the fault continually releases stress, there is less chance for another tsunami.
Elbuda Mexicano
Glad it happens out in the middle of nowhere! If that had been farther south?? Say near Hokkaido etc..Foxie is right!!
bigfujiyama
From the USGS
Foxie
I find it a bit hard to believe that they felt that earthquake in Moscow when I didn't even feel anything in Hokkaido which is a mere 300 km away. I had to look up JMA otherwise I wouldn't even have known that there was an earthquake. I saw the swaying buildings in Moscow on the Tube but couldn't it have been that this was an another earthquake?
nandakandamanda
Thanks for the information, Harald and bigfujiyama.
So we could still get big ones here in Japan too, if this is all an on-going process, like chunks of ice wall breaking away from glaciers..
Dennis Bauer
There was a slight eartquake in kobe this afternoon, i wonder if it is related
Himajin
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20130524063205395-240628.html
Yes, according to JMA's map. Click back to 14:47 this afternoon.
Himajin
14:57, sorry.