Magnetic trains

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Everyone I've shown that to, in person, has 'whooped' in exclamation at some specific timepoint. It's different for each person, but eventually it shatters their view of reality.

It's when he turns it upside down, for me.


I'm sharing the crap out of this video!

 

[Thedrin]

I must read up on that.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The shinkansen trains automatically stop when the earthquake early warning system registers movement above a certain threshold. It's really a fantastic system.

Japan was hit with another earthquake today. I have been unable to find any reference to derailed trains or fatalities caused by derailed trains. I've been looking for evidence of this caused by the 2011 quake/tsunami, but most of the coverage I've dug up has focused on the tsunami and the resultant Fukushima-Daichi disaster.

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake stuck the Japanese coast that was battered by 2011's 9.0-magnitude earthquake that triggered a devastating tsunami.

According to NHK, the state broadcaster, the tremor was felt from the coast all the way inland to Tokyo and at least 10 people were injured.


The earthquake hit at 5:18 p.m. local time, roughly 180 miles off Japan's Pacific coast. Two aftershocks, 6.2- and 5.5-magnitude quakes, followed within 30 minutes.

"And Japan, an island nation stretching across some of the world's most seismically active fault lines, experienced a rerun of post-quake trauma, with trains halting, cell phone networks tying up, and with broadcasters on NHK urging coastal residents to flee for their lives.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/12/07/35161/strong-earthquake-strikes-japan-triggering-small-t/