Japan Earthquake

[Phil89]

8.9 earthquake hits Japan. Multiple tsunami waves have hit. 10m high apparently.

They showed the first wave, which was easily hundreds of metres across, just swallowing everything up. There were people driving on the road.

Big fire at an oil refinery too.

[deihatein]

Pretty scary considering some reports say a Tsunami will hit Philippines soon. Praying that it won't happen though

[J@3]

No but seriously hope they will be ok. Looks horrific on the news. This stuff seems to come out of nowhere

[Phil89]

Even though Japan are probably the best prepared country in the world for earthquakes, the casualties will surely be significant.

That wave just overwhelmed everything in it's path. Farms, roads, houses, trucks, people driving....

[[Q]]

yeah man, it's crazy to see video of the water taking over farms and getting to roads where cars are still moving. this girl i knew from college is in Tokyo right now and she said that they are ok there but the northern region of sendai was hit hard

[Andrew]

Jeez, 8.9. We had an earthquake here in Newcastle back in 1989 which I remember fairly vividly for being five at time, which registered 5.6 and did a fair bit of damage, killing 13 and injuring more than 160 according to Wikipedia (I didn't remember the numbers until now). That was scary enough since as I said I was five at the time, but nothing compared to 8.9 which at a quick glance is the fifth highest in recorded history.

19 people confirmed dead as of this post.

[Phil89]

The footage of the secondary waves coming in was amazing. They just didn't slow down at all once they reached the shore.

They said that new waves could be higher than some pacific islands. They will be totally engulfed.

[Andrew]

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[Phil89]

The first wave hitting that airport they keep showing with all the people on the roof.

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[[Q]]

whoa, a TSUNAMI WARNING for the West Coast here, from Santa Barbara(CA) up to Oregon/Washington area.

A Tsunami Warning means that all coastal residents in the warning area who are near the beach or in low-lying regions should move immediately inland to higher ground and away from all harbors and inlets including those sheltered directly from the sea.

luckily only a Tsunami Advisory for my area (south of Santa Barbara)

[benji]

http://download.lavadomefive.com/members/BigClawz/NewGFilms-GvSG-GodzillaWaterRoar04.jpg

Jeez, come up with you own jokes for once instead of stealing them from CNN.

[Phil89]

From @BreakingNews on twitter:

Japan declares 'nuclear emergency' as attempts to cool reactor at northern plant are 'not going as planned' - official via NHK

[benji]

You'd think by this point people would be smarter than to believe and repeat everything thrown out there immediately.

But that doesn't keep eyeballs.

[Phil89]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42025882/ns ... iapacific/

TOKYO — Japan's top government spokesman and local administrators say emergencies have been issued at two nuclear power plants over cooling-system fears in the wake of Friday's giant earthquake.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano says the nuclear power plant in Fukushima developed a mechanical failure in the system needed to cool the reactor after it was shut down after the earthquake. He said there was no radiation leak.

Edano said the measure was a precaution and there was no radiation leak at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. He said the facility was not in immediate danger.

Meanwhile, an administrator at the Tohoku Electric Power Co's Onagawa facility said the process for the cooling reactor is "not going as planned," adding that "nuclear emergency situation" has been declared. The company asked people nearby to stay calm, the official TV news channel NHK reported.

A fire broke out at the plant following the quake, the Kyodo news agency said. Prior to the Kyodo report, the company had said it had not received information on whether there had been any problems at the plant after the disaster.

At the Fukushima facility, the site of a Tokyo Electric Power nuclear power plant, a spokeman on Friday that the plant's reactor cooling system was functioning, denying an earlier report that it was malfunctioning. Miyagi prefecture, where it is located, was one of the areas worst hit by the tsunami.

Kyodo also reported that an emergency core-cooling unit had been activated at the Fukushima nuclear plant, without giving further details.

The four Japanese nuclear power plants closest to the epicenter of the quake have been safely shut down, the United Nations atomic watchdog said Friday.

The quake struck just under 250 miles northeast of Tokyo, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was followed by more than a dozen aftershocks, one as strong as 7.1.

Earlier, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the quake caused "major damage" in northeastern Japan, but that nuclear power facilities in the area were not damaged and there was no radiation leakage.

[benji]

Right, in other words, there was no actual emergency. When the procedure did not go as well as expected, a standard "emergency plan" was undertaken that worked as expected.

Nuclear power plants are not big deals they're as safe as any other power plant, probably safer, if you live in the modern world instead of Soviet Ukraine.

There has no been no significant nuclear disaster in the history of the Western/modernized world. Seriously. It hasn't happened. The only reason you can't say it hasn't happened ever is because of Chernobyl and some other less developed world situations where the plants were just working in the plants was already a hazard. Without the Soviet Union, there would be practically no serious nuclear power related accidents.

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. And then shit literally blew up. Meltdowns just don't blow up. I've seen it said it's harder to blow up a reactor on purpose than to have it meltdown, and the lack of nuclear reactor explosions around the world seems to support that. (France is still here for example.)

[The X]

Not at all a surprise considering my home town Christchurch has been hit with quakes and aftershocks for last 6 months & Japan is on same fault line.

Not good to see though.

[shadowgrin]

[benji]

Not at all a surprise considering my home town Christchurch has been hit with quakes and aftershocks for last 6 months & Japan is on same fault line.

Not good to see though.

It's one of the same major plates involved but I don't think it's the same fault line at all.

/geography-geologist pedant

EDIT: Checking, apparently that one happened along a fault line nobody even knew existed before. That's pretty rough.

I mean imagine spending all your time wondering when New Madrid or Yellowstone are going to freak the fuck out and destroy the continent at best, most life on the planet at worse, and then some shit you don't know ever existed has to go and wreck shit up.

[JaoSming]

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Was watching that, ~1:00 Kathryn w/o contacts said it wasnt that bad.....until I told her those blobs were houses. The "live feed" on CNN cuts out before the waves hit the people standing on top of those cars.

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[kibaxx7]

It looks like the tsunami is coming from the Pacific Ocean, so some countries over here (Chile, Colombia) are also evacuating

[benji]

It looks like the tsunami is coming from the Pacific Ocean

BREAKING!

[joemmel]

[shadowgrin]

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/maria-ozawa-ok ... 0-446.html

In an immediate response from the massive earthquake and tsunami that has hit Japan in the past few hours, a strange development in the Twitterverse is a high number of Indonesian well-wishers posting their concerns for Japanese pornstar Maria Ozawa.

A simple search on the popular social media revealed that the most recent tweets bearing her name are all in the Indonesian language, ranging from "I hope you are okay" to "Please protect Maria Ozawa" and "Save Maria Ozawa", with some mention of other famous AV models as well from the island nation.

Of French-Canadian and Japanese ancestry, the 25-year-old beauty, often called 'the perfect woman in porn' due to her uncommon exotic looks, has gained notoriety in Indonesia after Maxima Pictures signed her in an Indonesian comedy called "Menculik Miyabi" in 2009, which incensed the authorities in the Islamic republic who vowed to bar her from entering the country.

[kibaxx7]

It looks like the tsunami is coming from the Pacific Ocean

BREAKING!

Well yeah But I didn't think it would come all the way down to here, Chile and Colombia.

[shadowgrin]

Right. The Pacific Ocean can only be located in Asia. There is no way it could affect other non-azn countries that have a coastline in the Pacific Ocean.