A cluster of fore shocks, registering up to 7.2, led to the massive quake of today. 8.9!! 100 aftershocks have already hit, each a sizable earthquake in itself; all aftershocks registering between 4.0 and 7.5. The rupture line of this enormous quake along the fault line - in which the Pacific Plate is slipping under Japan - is a whopping 180 miles. The amount of slip is over 40 meters. Massive and powerful.
Now the tsunamis wreak their destructive havoc. As I am currently but 30 miles from Santa Cruz, California, watching boats toss about and a the replay of a dock being pulverized, it makes the Japan quake feel very close and personal.
As I discovered researching my book, "Cataclysm in Blue Water," the Minoan civilization in the Aegean was lost not due to the clusters of earthquakes, or even the massive volcanic eruption, but from the tsunamis. They are powerful!
Prayers to Japan.
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