EQ Watch: 5.5-8.23

Yesterday, I was planning to post a watch out, but suddenly had to go somewhere and did not come in until 8 p.m. I know that is not exceptionally late, but I was still very tired and had to get up early the next morning. I had too much going on. I went to bed with the promise of making a post the next morning. I had a feeling it was going to become active somewhere anytime now and would wake up and find that something had already happened. I found out that a magnitude 6.2 struck the Ishikawa Prefecture(in western Honshu, Japan). In my time zone, it was the middle of the night, 3 hours after I had gone to bed. So far, there have been reports of damage and some injuries. One person is feared dead after falling off a ladder. A few buildings have collapsed. No tsunami warning was issued. Local firefighters reported that a man went into cardiac arrest after falling off a ladder in Suzu. Two small buildings collapsed in the city, with possibly one person trapped inside. "After swaying heavily sideways, there was a strong jolt in the end. I was terrified." a 63-year-old priest of a Shinto shrine said in a phone interview. He also said two stone lanterns in front of his house collapsed. It had a local Shindo rating in the upper 6 range(the highest being 7). It was rated 4 and 3 in intensity in neighboring Prefectures. Three Hokuriki Shinkansen bullet trains that were operating between Nagano and Kanazawa Stations made emergency stops due to electrical outage, according to East Japan Railway Co. No abnormalities were detected at the Shika nuclear power plant in Ishikawa Prefecture and the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in the nearby Niigata Prefecture, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a press conference. There has been little going on elsewhere throughout the world, but there may be more to come within the next few days. Other regions to watch out for might include: the Aleutian Islands(Alaska, U.S.A.), Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Northern Mariana Islands region, Ryukyu Islands(Japan), Kuril Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula, Kermadec Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Indonesia, possibly parts of Central Asia including Afghanistan or Pakistan, Iran... It may or may not act up more today, but more strong earthquakes with the possibility of a magnitude 7 or greater somewhere are likely within the next 5 to 7 days so far.

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