For several days after the big one, early on the morning of Saturday the 16th, media reports continued to say that only one earthquake had produced level 7 shaking on the Japanese scale: the level 7 shaking at Mashiki on Thursday evening. However, as the Japanese article and the graphic indicate, that was because the shaking in Mashiki and Nishihara could not be measured properly due to mechanical failure after the magnitude 7.3 quake.
Now, the data is in and we have been told that there were three instances of level 7 shaking: Mashiki on Thursday night and both Mashiki and Nishihara during the early Saturday morning quake. Thus, Mashiki got hit twice with level 7 shaking. This is the first time since the measurement system was put in place in 1949 that one place has been hit twice with this intensity.
To see photos I took showing the difference between the same sites on Friday (after the first) and Monday (after the second) click on the following links:
https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/1020587988014633 https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/1020607748012657 https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/1020592071347558
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