New 7.4 quake off Sendai, Japan
 

Bam, getting rocked again. USGS map actually shows two 7.4 quakes 41 seconds apart. Tsunami warning issued.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak.../10/145_40.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...145_40_eqs.php

http://i.imgur.com/YJiw4.png

time to leave

Crazy.. seems too close to shore for tsunami, so maybe they'll catch a break this time.

the end of world has come!

:( these guys can't catch a break

either could the USA. Pearl harbor BITCHES!

According to the BBC the tsunami is/was a lot smaller this time - 1m tall.

USGS has updated their earthquake map to show one 7.4 quake.

are you for real?

Japan cant get a break... this sucks

A 1m (3 feet) tsunami still can fuck some shit up. It's not the height, it's the force behind it. I read that just a few inches can move cars and trucks. :helpme

Quake downgraded from 7.4 to 7.1. No further damage reported at the nuclear power plant.

Yes and a tsunami is usually a series of waves and subsequent waves could be bigger.

News reports say buildings in Tokyo for over a minute. Man, that's got to be scary. I mean, once or twice is one thing, but to be hammered like this over and over again....

After the 9.0 last month this was probably just a bumpy ride for them. Take a look at this vid of the skyscrapers swaying in tokyo during the march quake. The sound in the second vid is freaky. In the 3rd vid look out the window during the quake. Nuts!

Time to be brave. Time to fly KB in to bitch slap mother nature right in her face. Twice!

Oh dear, this is not good.

yahoo report is calling this an aftershock-
"Japan was rattled by a magnitude-7.4 aftershock Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast."

an aftershock? 7.1 is a big earthquake...or at least it used to be.

Things are getting out of hand.

that's one hell of an aftershock!

Fucking crazy.

reminds me i have an emergency kit to build

Do you formulate your political views by reading ancient scrolls?

:1orglaugh

Japan is well prepared for earthquakes and small tsunamis. They routinely get hit with them a few times a year.

Just two days before the 9.0 they were hit with a 7.2 on March 9th with minimal damage. There was no media attention given to it, nor is there rarely ever (that is until now, after the biggest quake in recorded Japanese history hit).

It gives you an idea just how big that March 11th quake was though. Each point measures an amplitude 10 times larger, so an 8.0 is 10 times more destructive than a 7.0 and a 9.0 would be 10 times more destructive than a 8.0.

It also goes to show you can NEVER be prepared for when mother nature deals a blow like that. Japan is way more prepared than any other country for earthquakes and tsunamis, yet they were left in ruins after the March 11th quake. :(

9.0 earthquakes can't take down huge skyscrapers in japan but fire takes down these enormous steel structures in the US lolol.

Those poor people can't catch a break!