{"id":173,"date":"2003-09-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/travel\/japan\/200309152059.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T16:00:00","slug":"is-the-big-one-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/15\/is-the-big-one-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Big One coming?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/images\/diary\/20030915-earthquake.jpg\" alt=\"earthquake in Japan, first-grade students exercising\" \/>After living in Japan (more or less) peacefully for the last 4 years and half, I have to admit I tend to forget that we&#8217;re still exposed to a M7+ earthquake that would destroy Tokyo, as all seismologists seem to agree and as I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/2003\/05\/26#20030526\">before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, some <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/east\/09\/15\/japan.earthquake.ap\/\">news<\/a> published in a local newspaper suddenly reminded me of it and I&#8217;m really not sure how to take it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>According to Yoshio Kushida, a self-taught astronomer who studies electromagnetic field changes generated by magma movement (which has supposably an influence on charged particles), a major earthquake could strike Tokyo on the 16th or the 17th of September.<\/p>\n<p>The news has apparently spreaded by word of mouth, but the information hasn&#8217;t risen an eyebrow of the earthquake researchers, as no announcement has been made on TV (at least, not that I am aware of).<br \/> According to them, there is no technical solution to predict earthquakes as of today.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but to wonder how the situation will be handled if that really had to happen. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eas.slu.edu\/Earthquake_Center\/1923EQ\/index.html\">pictures of the last major earthquake in 1923<\/a> which killed about 120,000 people are quite scary, on the other hand, the buildings were not designed to sustain such strong earthquakes at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, recent research has shown that even the buildings which claim to be able to sustain a M7+ earthquake wouldn&#8217;t resist the added effect of resonance of the earthquake if it happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For reference, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eqe.com\/publications\/kobe\/kobe.htm\">summary report<\/a> of the earthquake in Kobe in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>[the picture above was borrowed from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/durable\/1999\/02\/03\/fp1s2-csm.shtml\">site<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After living in Japan (more or less) peacefully for the last 4 years and half, I have to admit I tend to forget that we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}