3 more quakes hit Japan

They have had 3 more 6.2 and greater quakes this morning. Have to wonder if sooner or later our west coast won't see some as the earth gets readjusted. Hard on folks trying to recover from all they have been through over there.

I'm wondering what the overall effect it's had on their geography.

muleman said:

They have had 3 more 6.2 and greater quakes this morning. Have to wonder if sooner or later our west coast won't see some as the earth gets readjusted. Hard on folks trying to recover from all they have been through over there.

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Japan's main island of Honshu has shifted approximately 8 inches to the east since the quakes started*. However, there is not likely going to be any U.S. west coast land movement, as the crust shift should be absorbed by the western Pacific's "shock absorber" -- the Marianas Trench. The trench is where the Pacific and Asian plates meet, and with its mud-volcano-lubrication is more than sufficient to handle the movement in the Asian plate, without passing that movement along into the Pacific plate.

*Movement before the quakes today.

I've also herd that it has sunk a number of inches

here is a global quake map

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

grizzer said:

here is a global quake map

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

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Good find Grizz!

The 9.0 magnitude quake (the fourth-largest recorded since 1900) was caused when the Pacific tectonic plate dove under the North American plate, which shifted Eastern Japan towards North America by about 13 feet (see NASA's before and after photos at right). The quake also shifted the earth's axis by 6.5 inches, shortened the day by 1.6 microseconds, and sank Japan downward by about two feet. As Japan's eastern coastline sunk, the tsunami's waves rolled in.

Why did the quake shorten the day? The earth's mass shifted towards the center, spurring the planet to spin a bit faster. Last year's massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile also shortened the day, but by an even smaller fraction of a second. The 2004 Sumatra quake knocked a whopping 6.8 micro-seconds off the day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...pans-earthquake-shifted-balance-of-the-planet

are there any sattelite pics showing altered geography?
There were pics from the Haiti quake the were pretty eerie