M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan
46 points by Someone 3 hours ago | 19 comments

piazz 10 minutes ago
Felt it all the way in Tokyo!

There is this amazing app called NERV that, whenever there is a large earthquake anywhere in Japan, sends you an early warning push notification and an animated display with shockwaves emanating from the epicenter, plus a countdown timer for the first wave hitting you. The first it went off for me it felt like something out of sci-fi. I think I got 45 seconds this time before my apartment started shaking.

https://nerv.app/en/

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kzrdude 6 minutes ago
How do you use your 45 seconds?
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piazz 4 minutes ago
If it's a big one and it's near you, you'd move away from the windows and heavy things that can fall, I suppose?

For me I always just turn on iPhone screen recording and marvel at this amazing app and wish we had something like this in California.

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tristanj 45 minutes ago
The earthquake magnitude was revised up to a 7.7

No major tsunami is expected, local media reported initial waves were recorded as high as 40cm. The Japan Meteorological Agency forecasted up to 3m (10ft) waves.

I don't believe this earthquake is a big deal. Large earthquakes (M7.0+) happen in Japan several times a year, and given this happened in the middle of the ocean, I don't expect any major damage.

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pezezin 21 minutes ago
I live in Aomori (Northernmost prefecture of Honshu) and we got the warning before the earthquake arrived by all the cellphones in the office going crazy at the same time. It was kind of funny, because we have a lot of new guys here who have never been to Japan before and it was their first earthquake ever xD
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whatsupdog 14 minutes ago
How much warning did you get? I mean in minutes or seconds?
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asutekku 10 minutes ago
Depends on the location, the alert comes usually as soon as the initial tremors are registered. If you're at the epicenter, tough luck. For example, for me in Tokyo, the alert came 2 minutes before it hit, and even then, the actual earthquake was extremely subtle.
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donw 11 minutes ago
This one was weird, too, like being on a boat in mildly choppy water, not a violent shake at all.
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danielovichdk 43 minutes ago
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embedding-shape 41 minutes ago
Because?

Here you have the same earthquake, but reported by Japan: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eve...

As a European, I feel fine that American and Japanese governments report on this.

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danielovichdk 17 minutes ago
That's because the American government has a tendency to "know better" than local government. If you catch my drift.
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embedding-shape 11 minutes ago
Are they making recommendations on that page? Are they trying to "know better" than the Japanese government because they too keep track of earthquakes? I'd say you seem to lack critical thinking, but you'd probably claim the American government stole it from you.
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DonHopkins 11 minutes ago
Maybe there should be a web site americaquake.gov just for American earthquakes.

Why did Mongo have an "EARTH QUAKE" button on his spaceship control console? Did he have buttons with the names of all the other obscure bodies he encountered, too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqVgrkmRF8Y

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ChrisRR 22 minutes ago
Well you could read the japanese reports, but they'd be in japanese
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bombcar 23 minutes ago
The US monitors things like this because tsunami danger to the west coast is a real if remote possibility.
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notdefio 40 minutes ago
Japan has their own communication platforms for this, they're not relying on a US government site. I'm in Japan on vacation, and I got notified of the earthquake within a minute of it happening on the NERV app, which is a common disaster alerting app here.
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gerikson 32 minutes ago
The creators of this app either didn't watch Evangelion or are huge fans. Hard to say which.
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pezezin 27 minutes ago
Evangelion is extremely popular in Japan, everybody and their dog knows it, so it is obviously the second option. From the official app website, https://nerv.app/en/

> The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series.

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thiago_fm 38 minutes ago
Japan also obviously also monitors this.

https://nerv.app/en/

This kind of data is actually shared by governments with each other as well.

Science has no borders, much less disasters.

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