[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

Ohhhh it was in the ocean. My bad

Those poor fishies and their dirt nap

Yeah, but it is hard to find a map showing where because the ones I've seen show Russia zoomed way out, with a giant red vibrating dot over it like we're supposed to know the Russian coast by heart and where land begins/ends... and if you do find a picture through a search engine, for whatever reason news sites wants to hide basic information inside of a video...

I'm not an expert, but 8.8 is still large and very significant and it's not terribly far from the coast... Touhoku's was also off coast and was 9.0~9.1 (mag)... I guess depending on how deep it was in the ground, what type of earthquake it was and how it would effect the way water is displaced... maybe it didn't displace as much water or it may have sent the worst of it adjacent along the coast rather than directly towards anything close-by... that would've also spared places like Japan... though Japan was never going to be as effected, they still reacted and moved to higher ground because they learned not to underestimate the potential of tsunamis to do more damage than imagined...