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Video of strong shaking from 8.9 quake outside supermarket

Video showing what an 8.9 earthquake feels and looks like taken outside a supermarket. Amazing seeing how strong the shaking is and how long it lasted. Super strong jolt at 0:44 and look at those trash can dance! I bet it must be hard to stand that's why most people are on the ground. I've been through the 94' Northridge quake when I was a kid and that was only 30'ish seconds and felt like forever, can't imagine shaking for over 3 minutes!

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Added: Mar-15-2011 
By: lowincash
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Tags: japan, earthquake, 8.9, crazy, strong, shaking, chaos, disaster, godzilla, 2012
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  • Been in earthquakes, but never have seen one last as long and as strong as this one. This is absolutely terrifying.

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    Stiggy121212 (393.32)

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  • Nice work on the video tags

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    Thallium 213 (870.50)  

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  • Was just reading about the Richter scale. It's actually a measure of the amplitude of the shaking, so it doesn't take the duration into consideration at all. That might explain why this particular quake and tsunami was so destructive. A three minute quake at 9.0 on the Richter scale would release ten times the energy of a 9.0 that only lasted 18 seconds.

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    Intellectual (756.24)

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    • Not quite correct. The length of time of the shaking is proportional to the distance away from the hypocentre - i.e. the closer to the hypocentre you are, the shorter (but more violent) the shaking.

      This is because different earthquake waves travel through the earth at different speeds.

      That was one of the problems at Christchurch - the hypocentre was extremely close to the buildings, so they got all the waves in one big jolt, instead of being spread-out over time.

      Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
      Cadae (144.08)  

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    • Good comment. Thanks for the info.

      Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
      downhill2400 (1325.68)

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    • Mercalli scale is more realistic for measuring earthquakes in a real world scenario ...but only seismologists or geologists really use that scale.

      Posted Mar-17-2011 By 
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  • Japan moved 8ft. west in this event.

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    Wowzers1 (132.94)  

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  • That was pretty intense! Such a terrible event followed by another,... now Tokyo is in evac to escape the radiation tsunami headed their way! Sorry no pun intended, I really do feel bad for Japan and it's people! This really does affect the world on so many levels...

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    kingx989 (100.42)  

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    • It's odd that so many of these comments are getting negative ratings even though they don't contain anything offensive. It's almost as if people don't want to read the reality of what happened. Why would "That was never ending" get three thumbsdown? Bizarre. My comment is that I've never heard of a quake last that long and also that must be what it takes to push a country 8 feet. Astounding. I am not religious, but this time I'm praying for the people of Japan. What a completely awful More..

      Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
      bobcov3 (20.14)  

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    • I'm with you on that brother! Religious or not, these people need our prayers and whatever help we can offer! Sad times...

      Posted Mar-17-2011 By 
      kingx989 (100.42)  

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  • hmm, Chile. NZ, Japan ... California would round out a nice trifecta for the Pacific rim ... i hope I am wrong

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    FTE (265.26)

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  • When I see some of these earthquake videos, I wonder if we're watching people who died in the ensuing tsunami. I can't even imagine the scale of this tragedy. I wonder what that supermarket looks like now.

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    imarkLL (31.18)  

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  • That was never ending

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    ozi_jon (98.40)  

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  • heard a blast @ 1:38

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    hassan2984 (14.38)  

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  • It's messed up that 2 minutes of shaking can fuck up an entire country and destroy lives. Poor Japan.

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    porcubunny (333.44)  

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  • WOW

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    redog (800.82)  

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  • sometimes it happens to my neighbors car.

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    SteelBeast (196.12)  

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  • This was one of the best videos I've seen that really gives you a sense of what it's like, when you watch it crank up your sub-woofer for the added "sensor" sound like when the movie "Earthquake" came out in the 70's. The guy at 1:52 coming out doesn't seemed to fazed by all this, looks more like he's wondering where he parked his car.

    Posted Mar-16-2011 By 
    PsychoPete (157.50)  

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