Earthquakes in Japan

[dragonmaster_x]

Too often, I see messages in my anime:
Report: Earthquake happened in Osaka at 12:00! Level 3 Earthquake! Etc., etc.

Are the earthquakes so bad that I have to see these reports in Japanese cartoons so often?

Comments

[thefreak]

Not bad, just frequent. They report them when they happen...which is often. I live in CA now and I miss the monthly (at least) tremors in Kantou...ah well...

[cutegenius]

Oh, they crack me up. It happens so frequently and they just report it as it happens. Japan being a relatively safe country where virtually nothing dangerous happens, earthquakes get more coverage. Level 3 Earthquake (Shindo 3) isn't anything to worry about either and I wonder why TV stations still report on them -- I guess it's to alert that the earthquake that people have just felt wasn't part of "a big one." If you want to know what they're scale is like, here's a link.

http://www.kishou.go.jp/know/shindo/explane.html

[akibare]

It's automated, if you're talking about the stuff that comes on the screen. The human discussion afterward, if you get it, is separate.

[xxpersephonexx]

Japan is on the boundary of two tutonic plates... I believe that's what they're called. Anyway, they're always shifting and rubbing against one another and that's why the earthquakes are so frequent there.

[ph30tu5]

tectonic plates ^^

[sin_and_repent]

I read somewhere recently that Iran has one earthquake a day... and my sensei said Tokyo has like an earthquake a week (though most are really really minor) so doesn't surprise me any either.

[akibare]

Did someone grab it off the actual TV broadcast? 'Cos if so, the stuff that appears on the screen is automatic. Any earthquake triggers it without there needing to be a newscaster.

If you're, uh... getting these off the internet, or renting from the sort of supermarket I rent from, I'd assume that's what it is. The videos at the supermarket have all the random break-in from whatever happens on the broadcast, it's some guy grabbing TV in a room. :)

[dragonmaster_x]

yea, from the internet of course.