'Megaquake' explained: Japan issues warning after 7.1-magnitude earthquake

NBC News' Dana Griffin reports on the significance of Japan issuing its first-ever 'megaquake' warning.

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[evanumbrand]

Props to the engineers who made those buildings in Japan! They stood strong

[ucruci]

7.1 and minimal damage. Only in Japan. This would cause catastrophic destruction in other countries.

[globalautobahn]

I pray all Japanese civilians are safe and sound 🇺🇸

[jasons]

Hey, NBC News. Don't you think showing a photo the 2011 earthquake as the thumbnail for today's earthquake news rather deceptive???

[B.D.F.]

Thumbs down on the video for using a screenshot from old footage as the thumbnail.

[Vacardi]

Why did you clowns show this photo pretending this was what happened. This is very irresponsible, I have friends there.

[acerdan]

Poor Japan. They always get really bad earthquakes. Prayers for all the Japanese people.

[crocodile]

My brother and sister in law live in Kyoto. They are safe from any tsunami but I pray for the rest of Japan.

[dougadams]

MISLEADING THUMBNAIL! That is NOT the damage from the 7.1 Earthquake. That is from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.
"TOKYO (Reuters) -An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, triggering tsunami advisories, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, but there were no immediate signs of major damage."

[macmacmacdre]

right after a Japanese engineer wanted to make shakeless building structures, unbelievable

[tomboyjessie]

I hope everyone in Japan is ok, I have a friend who lives there and I worry for her safety.

[HKim]

What the heck? Don't put the 2011 pictures into the thumbnail. I was like holy heck. I heard about the earthquake, but didn't hear much about damage.

[tundahking]

Atleast Japanese know how to build apartment buildings that don't crumble and fall apart.

[ArchYeomans]

Japan, is one of the most innovative countries in the world. Hope for safety and best thoughts for all.

[jlvandat]

Sobering to realize that one day we'll wake up to headlines 100X worse than magnitude 8.5+ hits a major city, and/or major tsunamis striking populated coastlines. Stay safe as practical, folks.

[samwallaceart]

Bruh you can't just put a 13-year-old photo of damage with a current headline like that. I thought my mom was dead 💀

[Serenity]

Me who lives in San Diego: Oh, there's my anxiety going off.

[JohnOhkumaThiel]

As an American who lives in Japan, some perspective. Notice how they say we felt the quake, but there is zero mention of damage or death. If this earthquake hit anywhere else in the world, including the United States, that place would have suffered a catastrophe--which by definition is an amount of damage beyond calculation. But in Japan, we just felt it.

Mass transit was disrupted for a few hours, but not stopped entirely. It did not take days, weeks, much less months to recover.

What you should be sensationalizing is not that the earthquake occurred and there is this warning, but that people in Japan are like "That was a big one, " and then we just went on about our business as usual.

Japan is the natural disaster capital of the world, also a potential global war flashpoint, so what the real story should be is how we manage to keep calm and carry on despite our eternally hazardous situation.

[VGLounge]

Thumbnail: *CITY LITERALLY FLATTENED*
Video: "injuries and damage have been minimal"

[anncain]

My parents befriended a Japanese family with a young boy in the same grade as my little sister. Our parents had each other's families over for dinner and, at Easter, we took them on a picnic out in the Texas bluebonnets. Dad had served in Germany during the Reconstruction and the Yamashita's were equally as loyal to Japan as we were to the United States. They had a son, Tommy, who was my sister's age and many years of later, after my folks had visited them in Japan, their only child died from cancer caused by excessive cigarettes...my parents went to Japan to show their support and a few years later my sister died of a drug overdose. These loving, wonderful parents came to Houston months later to show their love and support of my beloved Mother's and Father. This is what God loves to see...his Children supporting one another, no matter if one must go halfway around the world to be there for one another. How blessed are we who've watched our parents walk the walk. In memory of my Mother. Dad. 95, asks God every day to be with her., again.