Because?

Here you have the same earthquake, but reported by Japan: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eve...

As a European, I feel fine that American and Japanese governments report on this.

That's because the American government has a tendency to "know better" than local government. If you catch my drift.

Are they making recommendations on that page? Are they trying to "know better" than the Japanese government because they too keep track of earthquakes? I'd say you seem to lack critical thinking, but you'd probably claim the American government stole it from you.

Maybe there should be a web site americaquake.gov just for American earthquakes.

Why did Mongo have an "EARTH QUAKE" button on his spaceship control console? Did he have buttons with the names of all the other obscure bodies he encountered, too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqVgrkmRF8Y

Well you could read the japanese reports, but they'd be in japanese

The US monitors things like this because tsunami danger to the west coast is a real if remote possibility.

Japan has their own communication platforms for this, they're not relying on a US government site. I'm in Japan on vacation, and I got notified of the earthquake within a minute of it happening on the NERV app, which is a common disaster alerting app here.

The creators of this app either didn't watch Evangelion or are huge fans. Hard to say which.

Evangelion is extremely popular in Japan, everybody and their dog knows it, so it is obviously the second option. From the official app website, https://nerv.app/en/

> The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series.

Evangelion is their Star Wars, at least in terms of merchandising and cultural references. I think I heard somewhere that it's known more for the pachinko machines than the actual media

How can any show with the beginning scene of the “end of evangelion” be the Star Wars or anything? Luke skywalker didn’t feel the need to choke his chicken to a knocked out Leia, but this is exactly what shinji does in the first scene of the end of evangelion.

Japan, that's how. Also, I'm not sure everyone who recognises Evangelion in Japan has actually watched more than the anime or rebuilds. A whole lot of people just know it as the logo on the pachinko machine

Japan also obviously also monitors this.

https://nerv.app/en/

This kind of data is actually shared by governments with each other as well.

Science has no borders, much less disasters.

Here you go: https://earthquake.tenki.jp/bousai/earthquake/detail/2026/04...