IS JAPAN HEADING FOR ANOTHER MEGA QUAKE?

Signs Pointing To Another Mega EQ In Japan?

By Kat Marin 4/17/2016                           

 I came across today that is very disturbing in light of the renewed earthquake activity in Japan, especially in the Kyushu region. In the article, which was from May 11, 2015, it talks about shallow tremors being detected under the ocean, that could be a sign that the country may be heading for another mega quake...perhaps worse than the last one. Japan is still recovering from the 9.0 megathrust earthquake, which devastated the country in 2011, and caused a nuclear disaster.  It killed almost 16,000 people.  

Japan has one of the most sophisticated earthquake detection systems in the world, and with  Ocean Bottom Seismometers, they can listen to the "rumbling" that is created when two tectonic plates meet. Such instruments have helped detect low-energy, "slow earthquakes" along oceanic trenches that we otherwise wouldn't notice.

These earthquakes occur much more slowly than standard earthquakes. By comparison, big earthquakes are caused by the rupture of faults and give rise to short-lived, high-energy seismic waves.

Slow-slip earthquakes and tremors don't cause any damage on their own. But if they coincide with very-low-frequency earthquakes they could. These are another type of slow earthquake that is caused by processes deeper under ground,  and usually indicate fault motions where the tectonic plates meet. If all these types of slow earthquakes take place, along the faulted zone at different depths, they might be a sign of a mega-thrust earthquake in the future.

                     THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN IN 2015!

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 The earthquakes which are happening right NOW as of April 2016 are in the exact area this article mentions (almost one year ago!) The area has many volcanoes, and Sakurajima has had several huge eruptions in the same time frame as these earthquakes. Mt Aso is showing unrest now as well.

 

           This next paragraph is an EXACT QUOTE from the article,

 "The next such earthquake could strike the coast of Kyushu, a region known for its dangerous volcanoes. Let's hope that, by then, we have come far enough to prevent the same devastation as we saw in 2011. No place is better than Japan to drive such technological progress."  Source:  http://phys.org/news/2015-05-rumbling-ocean-trenches-japan-mega.html

 

Eerie isn't it? Could what they mentioned was going on in 2015 been the harbinger for what is occurring now, and were these earthquakes just a forshock for what is coming? Only time will tell...but it certainly seems to matchup! Please comment and let me know what you think.

 

                      

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-05-rumbling-ocean-trenches-japan-mega.html#jCp