M 7.4 near Miyako, Japan
M7.4 at depth 35 km; tsunami advisory in effect.
Major earthquake. Damage and aftershocks expected across a wide area. Magnitude 7.4 earthquake, depth 35 km, 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan.
Flash Flood Warning · Bexar, TX
At 802 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the western part of Bexar County. This area of the
Flood Warning · Defiance, OH
Filed in the last fifteen minutes. ...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Indiana...
227 active flood and severe-weather warnings, 75 concentrated in MI, and an M7.4 leads the seismic board, near Miyako, Japan. No tropical systems are currently advisory-active, no tornado warnings are in effect, no active red-flag warnings, and no active winter-storm warnings.
San Francisco, on the second day
The shake had come the morning before, at 5:12 a.m. on April 18th, a magnitude the USGS would later assign at 7.9. By the time the sun rose on April 19th, most of the city east of Van Ness was already gone or going. Fires had converged into a single conflagration, fed by ruptured gas mains and broken water cisterns. Dynamite teams blew whole blocks to make firebreaks; many of the explosions lit fresh fires instead.
By late afternoon on the 19th, the line of destruction had pushed west to Nob Hill and north toward Russian Hill. An estimated 3,000 people died across the three-day disaster; roughly 225,000 were left homeless, out of a city of 410,000. It is the largest urban fire in American history.