News M5.2 quake in Noto Peninsula

[thomas]

@johnnyG, did you feel this one? It was 震度 6 in the Noto Peninsula and 3 in the rest of the prefecture.

石川県で6弱 群発地震の一環か - Yahoo!ニュース

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M5.2 quake hits in Ishikawa Prefecture; no tsunami danger

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 struck Ishikawa Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast, on Sunday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the weather agency said. The quake occurred at 3:08 p.m. with focus was at a depth of around 10 kilometers, registering lower 6…

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There was another (bigger) quake in Fukushima tonight.

 

[johnnyG]

Nope, didn't notice a thing, and we were where we could have noticed. I was just starting salads at the kitchen counter and wife at the table on her laptop (immediate alert)--and she excitedly said Noto had an earthquake. I asked when, and when she said three, I thought she meant it had been 3 a.m. No, we didn't feel it.

In the past few weeks/month or so there've been a couple articles in the paper, which I didn't read but glanced at the graphics. I thought they were just summarizing past activity up there at the tip, and maybe that was the case, but it also could be that someone was studying past activity wondering if it indicated there would be more.

 

[thomas]

Mainichi reported a lower 6 in Suzu, lower 5 in the town of Noto, 4 in Wajima of Ishikawa and 3 in other parts of the neighbouring Niigata, Toyama and Fukui prefectures as well as five injuries.

M5.4 quake hits central Japan, 5 injured - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck central Japan on Sunday, leaving at least five people injured in Ishikawa Pr

mainichi.jp

 

[Grandpa Frank]

There was a post on Facebook saying police were getting ready for a Fuji eruption?

 

[thomas]

There was a post on Facebook saying police were getting ready for a Fuji eruption?

Emphasis on "possible eruption". I believe this is just a general preparedness drill. I hope.

 

[johnnyG]

This is one of the iconic places in Suzu, I'm not sure exactly how much of the sides/top shook loose, but someone got a picture of it immediately after.

And another one, a 5, almost same spot, 10:31. I felt this one, kind of like a big truck going by, jma says it was a 2 here.

 

[thomas]

This is one of the iconic places in Suzu, I'm not sure exactly how much of the sides/top shook loose, but someone got a picture of it immediately after. And another one, a 5, almost same spot, 10:31. I felt this one, kind of like a big truck going by, jma says it was a 2 here.

They showed the Suzu rock in the morning news. Hopefully, it's still intact.

 

[thomas]

According to government experts, seismic activity in Noto will continue for months.

There has been intense earthquake activity in the region since around December 2020 and sharp uplifts of land have been confirmed. Takuya Nishimura, an associate professor at Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute, speculated that water rising from a subducting oceanic plate deep under the Japanese archipelago is causing both the land upheavals and the earthquakes. Referring to temblors that occurred from December 2020 to 2021, Nishimura said rising water put pressure on the bedrock, which resulted in the quakes. Although the pace of land uplift has slowed in recent months, Nishimura said water had likely soaked through faults and other cracks in the bedrock, reducing the frictional forces that support the bedrock and causing the earthquakes.

Experts warn Ishikawa quakes likely to continue for months | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis