Japan Earthquake

[kibaxx7]

What I meant is, this earthquake followed by a tsunami in Japan seems to have triggered another earthquakes and seismic waves, and there were also new tsunami alerts, over here in South America -- Chile, Colombia, now Honduras, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, were evacuating.

[puttincomputers]

There was a 6.1 quake in japan a little while again. IT WAS NOT AN AFTERSHOCK! It is located on an entirely different fault line!

[Phil89]

Even after hours of notice, there were still people in California that got swept into the ocean by the tsunami apparently.

[bowdown]

Very sad to know about these things. Cant even imagine being in such a situation. 8.9? With many many aftershocks which measured well above the levels which are considered major earthquakes by themselves.

Hopefully they recover fast and dang these natural disasters are really scary. Kinda puts you in your place regarding how much power we humans really have

[[Q]]

Even after hours of notice, there were still people in California that got swept into the ocean by the tsunami apparently.

link?

[Phil89]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/d ... CdXrAXH2FI

Hurtling at 500 mph, the long reach of the Japanese tsunami whacked the US West Coast yesterday, demolishing harbors, destroying boats and even sweeping a handful of souls out to sea.

The waves took the life of a 25-year-old man who waded into the ocean to take snapshots near McKinleyville in Northern California. Two pals who were with him managed to swim back to shore.

"The waters here are very cold and very rough seas, so if you're not in a survival suit or dry suit, then your chances of survival are very slim," said Coast Guard Lt. Todd Vorenkamp.

A littler further north in Oregon, four other people were swept to sea by a wave but rescued, local officials said.

The fierce, 7-foot waves ripped apart the Crescent City, Calif., harbor, destroying several dozen boats and shredding wooden docks.

"This is just devastating. I never thought I'd see this again," said Ted Scott, a retiree who witnessed a 1964 tsunami that killed 17. "I watched the docks bust apart. It buckled like a graham cracker."

There were precautionary evacuations and school, beach and road closings on low-lying areas from San Diego to British Columbia, Canada.

Some brave surfers tested the tsunami, although many quickly gave up, owing to the strong current and inconsistent waves.

"I saw the news about the tsunami in Japan . . . I heard about the warnings here," said Malibu surfer Peter Jones, who was among those who defied a ban. "They seem a little bigger, but for the most part, it's kind of a bust."

Hawaii was hit with 7-foot waves at around dawn. But even with water rushing up roadways and into some hotel lobbies on the Big Island and low-lying areas of Maui, the damage was minimal.

"All of us had that feeling that Hawaii was just the most blessed place on the face of the Earth today," said Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie.

As the Pacific coastline struggled with the damage, Japanese residents in New York and elsewhere in the country worried about their loved ones back home after the monster, 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan.

"We tried to contact my wife's parents, but we can't," said frantic Manhattan restaurant manager Hisaya Kadoi, 41.

"We saw on the Internet the whole city was on fire," he said, referring to his in-laws' hometown of Kesennuma in the worst-hit Miyagi prefecture.

"They live near the harbor. Maybe they escaped . . . [But] we are pretty sure it is a worst-case scenario. I don't believe in God, but right now, I am praying."

Others with friends and relatives in Japan said that phone lines were out and that Internet service remained spotty.

Queens resident Motoi Yaze said his friend in Tokyo used social-networking services to be rescued.

"My friend had her leg caught underneath a bookshelf in her house. She couldn't get out, so she used her phone to update her status. 'I'm stuck . . . someone please come and help me,' " he said.

Within 30 minutes, Yaze said, his pal changed her status to "safe" after her sister saw her desperate Web post and came to the rescue.

Although the NYPD will not send its elite search-and-rescue team to the area, according to police, the Los Angeles Police Department and Fairfax, Va., said their teams would fly to Japan to help.

Japan hasn't formally asked for aid yet, but Mayor Bloomberg said New Yorkers could call 311 if they'd like to donate.

"If anybody wants to donate money to help -- and I don't know that they need money yet -- but if they do, the Mayor's Fund will arrange for public monies to be sent over," he said.

"We did that with the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and we would do that with this as well."

[[Q]]

oh you made it sound like they got swept away because they didn't see it coming. they actually went into the water??

my roommate's family is from Hawai'i and he said his uncle's house got flooded up to knee level so all their stuff got ruined.

[puttincomputers]

CBS tried downplay the seriousness of how high the water was coming in Japan. They were making fun of Fox news saying that Hawaii got hit good.

[JaoSming]

in a word, wow

[Andrew]

I'm with you.

[Phil89]

Amazing the level of destruction that has occurred. Here's some before and after images. (Slide mouse across images)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan ... eafter.htm

[el badman]

This is crazy shit. That a tsunami in Japan can affect regions more than 5000 miles away is just mindblowing...

And if you know anything about Chernobyl, the only reason it was so bad is because when things started fucking up the Soviets reaction was to make things worse because they were idiots.

I read a lot about it, and they certainly did ignore many signs showing that shit was going to blow up in their faces, it was an accumulation of human errors. I think we can assume that the Japanese did not make the same mistakes, but still, things still seem to be pretty serious with that Fukushima nuclear plant. Might be mostly preventive but it's still scary as hell.

[[Q]]

for some reason, it's brought out racists out of the woodwork:
"UCLA girl":

phpBB [video]

and a writer for the Cleveland Show & Family Guy:
http://www.8asians.com/2011/03/14/japanese-earthquake-and-tsunami-did-japan-deserve-it/

[Andrew]

A Family Guy/Cleveland Show writer says something idiotic (or depending on how you look at it, fails miserably at an attempt at shock humour); who'd have thought?

[x-uNdErRaTeD-z]

The article talks about it being karma from the Pearl harbor attack. What the hell does that have to do with a natural-diaster tsunami? Well, it could be karma for the hell of it I don't know.

[koberulz]

The article talks about it being karma from the Pearl harbor attack. What the hell does that have to do with a natural-diaster tsunami? Well, it could be karma for the hell of it I don't know.

I just love the number of Americans who have promptly forgotten nuking the fuck out of Japan.

[x-uNdErRaTeD-z]

I know that, I don't live under a rock. I'm just saying why would someone write an article like that? You know what I mean?

[[Q]]

The article talks about it being karma from the Pearl harbor attack. What the hell does that have to do with a natural-diaster tsunami?

that's the whole point. it doesn't. people are taking a random natural disaster and spinning it to fit their own racist views. and yes koberulz, it does seem odd that nuking 2 cities wasn't "payback enough" or simply didn't happen. what's even worse is that in WWII here in the States, all Americans of japanese descent had everything taken from them and they were sent to live in prison camps, which our own history books almost fail to mention.

[koberulz]

I know that, I don't live under a rock. I'm just saying why would someone write an article like that? You know what I mean?

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about the 'they deserve this for Pearl Harbor' crowd.

[puttincomputers]

An inconvenient fact: The japs were sent to prison camps not only to make sure they could not attack us but also that they would be protected.
People of German descent like The Mennonites, such as myself, were looked on with suspicion and were openly belittled.

The world should be grateful that the japs bombed pearl harbor. Germany had a military pact with Japan. When the USA declared war on Japan Germany declared war on the USA. If the japs had not declared war it would have been too late before the antiwar activists in the united states were awoken with the realities of the situation. As it was it was almost too late! Thank you Japan for jumping the Gun!

[x-uNdErRaTeD-z]

all Americans of japanese descent had everything taken from them and they were sent to live in prison camps, which our own history books almost fail to mention.

Oh yea true that man. When I was a sophmore in high school in American history, they never mentioned a thing about the imprisonment of the Japanese because they were suspicious of being a "threat" of terrorism.

[benji]

which our own history books almost fail to mention.

How dare you speak ill of our nation's founder Saint F.D.R.

If the japs had not declared war it would have been too late before the antiwar activists in the united states were awoken with the realities of the situation. As it was it was almost too late! Thank you Japan for jumping the Gun!

More like thank you Saint F.D.R. for lying about being neutral and antagonizing the Empire, just like the great prior Saint Woodrow he worked under did.

We must not also forget the great liberator of the working man, Uncle Joe who beat back the Nazi threat with his New Soviet Man before we even arrived on the scene.

An inconvenient fact: The japs were sent to prison camps not only to make sure they could not attack us but also that they would be protected.
People of German descent like The Mennonites, such as myself, were looked on with suspicion and were openly belittled.

Praise be unto Saint F.D.R. for he protected the American Citizens of Japanese descent from open belittlement!

And it took only a short period until the American Citizens of Japanese descent were made 100% whole for any small mishaps that may have occurred during the accident.

[puttincomputers]

Wilson and FDR are were two of the worst presidents in usa history.
My ranking for worst presidents.
1. Obama (Combine FDR's and Bush Jr.'s financial policies and Wilson's and Clinton's social policies and you get Obama)
2 FDR (Obama is just like him.. only worse. Kept the USA in the great depression. only the war got us out.)
3 Bush JR (Obama lite)
4 Clinton (womanizer, evidence of major corruption, allowed bin laden to escape)
5 Wilson (Concentration camps and a believer in socialism)
6 Bush SR (wanted a one world government)
7 Carter (whinny president that acted like wet fish
8 Lincoln. (never freed all the slaves, only those in rebellious states, Allowed his generals to put only black men on front lines as bait. only freed the slaves due to political pressure and destroyed states rights in the process)

now back on topic

There could be a major disaster on the way. A major storm is brewing and will be going close to Japan. Mt. Fuji acts as though it wants to erupt.

[Phil89]

An animation of earthquakes in Japan, primarily off the east coast, between March 9 and 14 follows.

One second of animation equals one hour of real time. There is a pause, seven hours or so of seismological silence through the morning of March 11, as though the Earth was gathering its strength, taking a long deep breath, before unleashing the 9.0 magnitude megaquake (here it's dotted as an 8.9) at 1.17.

phpBB [video]

[puttincomputers]

nice find phil!