HotChops Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 Okay, Japan, tsunamis, potential nuclear disasters. What a terrible mess. Even if most people had a chance to evacuate before the flood waters and debris waves hit, I look at the footage and pics and think, "That was someone's home. That was someone's car. That was someone's place of business." I'd be thankful to have my life, but to think of your entire community being swept away like that... that's really rough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=F8HWA002 If anyone wants to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 To everyone here in the affected reigions: stay safe, keep posting to let us know you are alive Best wishes to everyone in these troubling times. It's terrible; I know the feeling of mother nature taking away your home and possessions; what a dreadful experience. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enervation Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 Both Japan and the USGS have apparently settled on a magnitude 8.8 rating. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 Bad timing for a quake. Not that there's ever GOOD timing but with the US experiencing a budget crisis I have to wonder how much aid they can really give right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 Japan isn't exactly unprepared or underfunded. I think they'll manage quite well without US aid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotChops Posted March 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 http://twitter.com/BBCBreaking A fresh aftershock of 6.6 magnitude has struck in the mountainous Niigata prefecture in the west of the main Honshu island, as of 1900 GMT. Aftershock? Anything over 4.0 I'd simply call another earthquake. Bad timing for a quake. Not that there's ever GOOD timing but with the US experiencing a budget crisis I have to wonder how much aid they can really give right now. Japan isn't exactly unprepared or underfunded. I think they'll manage quite well without US aid. Lol, yeah. It's not like they're Haiti. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 http://twitter.com/BBCBreaking A fresh aftershock of 6.6 magnitude has struck in the mountainous Niigata prefecture in the west of the main Honshu island, as of 1900 GMT. Aftershock? Anything over 4.0 I'd simply call another earthquake. I mentioned to my housemate that Japan was getting aftershocks of 5.0+ magnitudes, and he's "you can tell it's a big one when what any other day would be reported as 'Major earthquake hits japan' is "aftershocks"" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enervation Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 So I heard there were some nuclear power plants affected. >_> I don't want to end up playing STALKER: Shadow of Japan, thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 Inb4 f11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 I think we should all change our profile pictures to anime characters for a week to raise awareness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigawings Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Okay, Japan, tsunamis, potential nuclear disasters. What a terrible mess. Even if most people had a chance to evacuate before the flood waters and debris waves hit, I look at the footage and pics and think, "That was someone's home. That was someone's car. That was someone's place of business." I'd be thankful to have my life, but to think of your entire community being swept away like that... that's really rough. I saw a footage where tsunami start rolling inland, I saw some cars that still moving being swept away, and a bunch of moving cars get stuck in a traffic jam while tsunami coming slowly at them like a brown giant full of debris. And they already found around 300 dead bodies, casualty can go up when the flood is dissipated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Tuxedo Sam is Japanese, so I'm ahead of the game! Haha! But yeah, of all countries to be hit by a major earthquakes, Japan is one of the few countries that will fair the best. After 1994(95?), I think they have been preparing for something like this but not quite this powerful. Also, I heard the magnitude of the quake might be revise to 9.0. Its on the border between 8.9 and 9.0... so who knows. The nuclear reactors problem is really is worrisome for not only Japan but the whole world. I would like to think the nuclear power to be on the rise, but the Japanese reactors meltdown... eh. Also, I think the aftermath shows why the Japanese are pretty highly regarded internationally when it comes to lawfulness. I have heard no reports of looting or anything like that. Best of luck to them all. I am confident that they got the handle on the situation. --- As a side note, seeing how the tsunami affect the West Coast of the US is pretty damn humbling. If you guys followed the Status Update box last night, I was blown away from my initial naive guess on how much it would affect us over here. It makes me believe how powerful a 9.0+ can be now. I'm glad the actual earthquake wasn't really shallow too... that would of been bad. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Sausalitos-Tsunami-Impact-117816238.html Then there are the stuff in Crescent City, CA and in Oregon, not to forgot about Santa Cruz as well. Then there are the dude that won the Darwin Award... Also know this: This sort of trans-Pacific tsunami could be far worst as a whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 (edited) I mean it is terrible for Japan. However they are the best prepped for this and in a way while this is horrible, this can only get them to build stronger measures which is good. The Nuclear reactor situation well 3 out of 4 are fine. The fourth one is a risk but it could also be extremely precautionary methods. You don't want people suffering from radiation poisoning. Until we know for sure it's probably best to find out what really happened there. The fires on the other hand are a major issue since it's hard to put them all out quickly in a situation like this. Hope everyone's loved ones are fine. What concerns me is the actual impact of this. Last year's Chilean earthquake knocked off a few microseconds from our rotational time. This time we've had two earthquakes on the same tectonic plate and there was an Earthquake at the same time as Japan in the Burmese-Chinese border which measured as much as the Japanese aftershocks. True Polar wander is no laughing matter, it will happen at some point and I'm just concerned if increasing earthquakes along a particular area is a starter signal for something. The plates moved by a few 100 metres in this earthquake. That's what made the Tsunamis worse. We still don't have a clear assessment of how that's going to affect the region and also on the larger scale the planet. It's also annoying that the moon is moving away ever so slightly (though it will take 1000s of years for it actually cause a problem). There's a lot of interdependent factors in this and we're still really lacking info. The sad thing about the studies is the amount of pseudoscience the field attracts. Edited March 12, 2011 by WTF 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219 Jesus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigawings Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Tuxedo Sam is Japanese, so I'm ahead of the game! Haha!But yeah, of all countries to be hit by a major earthquakes, Japan is one of the few countries that will fair the best. After 1994(95?), I think they have been preparing for something like this but not quite this powerful. Also, I heard the magnitude of the quake might be revise to 9.0. Its on the border between 8.9 and 9.0... so who knows. The nuclear reactors problem is really is worrisome for not only Japan but the whole world. I would like to think the nuclear power to be on the rise, but the Japanese reactors meltdown... eh. Also, I think the aftermath shows why the Japanese are pretty highly regarded internationally when it comes to lawfulness. I have heard no reports of looting or anything like that. Best of luck to them all. I am confident that they got the handle on the situation.---As a side note, seeing how the tsunami affect the West Coast of the US is pretty damn humbling. If you guys followed the Status Update box last night, I was blown away from my initial naive guess on how much it would affect us over here. It makes me believe how powerful a 9.0+ can be now. I'm glad the actual earthquake wasn't really shallow too... that would of been bad. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Sausalitos-Tsunami-Impact-117816238.htmlThen there are the stuff in Crescent City, CA and in Oregon, not to forgot about Santa Cruz as well. Then there are the dude that won the Darwin Award...Also know this: This sort of trans-Pacific tsunami could be far worst as a whole. Someone died in the US? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219Jesus. Oh God, and I thought they were able to cool it down. And why do they put their Nuclear reactors in the coastal areas? it like asking for tsunami to hit them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) The 11th was definitely a stressful day. But a long walk home (currently very grateful that I live a few hours walk from home) and about 6 hours of no water of electricity or water for my family was the worst of the after effects for us. I can't imagine what it's like anywhere in the hardest hit parts of the country... The aftershocks are unbelievable. You can see a list of the last week's worth of earthquakes here: http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/quake_singendo_index.html Normally, there's a dozen or so earthquakes, the vast majority of which are too small for anyone to feel. In the last day and a half, following the 8.9, there have been the follow +M6.0 earthquakes: 08:39 JST 13 Mar 2011 M6.2 08:35 JST 13 Mar 2011 M6.2 08:29 JST 13 Mar 2011 M6.2 07:22 JST 13 Mar 2011 M6.0 07:17 JST 13 Mar 2011 M6.0 23:50 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.1 23:47 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.1 22:25 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.0 22:19 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.0 05:17 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.1 04:55 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.4 04:52 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.4 04:03 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.6 03:16 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.0 00:24 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.2 00:17 JST 12 Mar 2011 M6.6 21:20 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.0 21:18 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.1 20:41 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.4 17:52 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.0 17:23 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.7 17:15 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.4 16:34 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.6 16:20 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.8 16:02 JST 11 Mar 2011 M6.1 15:32 JST 11 Mar 2011 M7.2 15:24 JST 11 Mar 2011 M7.4 15:17 JST 11 Mar 2011 M7.0 Most off those are out in the ocean, but not all. The most recent quake that would have been a news story overseas on it's own is a 6.6 from early yesterday morning was right over Nagano and Niigata: I wrote up a long detailing of my Friday for my friends and family. I wrote in bed before going to sleep on Friday night. It's very long, my parents printed it out, and I think they said it was 15 8.5x11" pages... But if anyone's interested, I wouldn't be opposed to sharing it here...just lemme know. Edited March 13, 2011 by peteer01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) I heard the nuclear plant is getting worst. I heard on the radio... it sent a chill down my back. Is it time to pour a billion tons of concrete on it yet? Edited March 13, 2011 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 Glad to hear you're ok Peter. I think the problem with those posters are a lack of awareness probably more than lack of education and of course common sense. This is one of the reasons why it's bad to let everyone have an opinion and not a well-formed opinion. What would be nice would be if we had stuff like 'are you sure you want to post that?' based on a word parser and keep questioning the user. Of course it semi-prohibits certain kinds of speech but after 3 user prompts it is likely that they'd have time to think about the dumb things they said. More than that and it'd get annoying and people would post worse stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 AT&T U-Verse has given everyone free access to the Japan News Channel during these difficult times, I find that to be very cool of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?ref=asia Ouch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?ref=asia Ouch. More pictures here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110313D13JFF08.htm From Monday they're going to start running rolling black outs. They say that come summer they won't be able to meet power demands regardless of getting all powerplants back online in time. Also many major industries are shutting down to conserve power. I think financially it's the lack of power and having to close places of work that'll hit Japan the hardest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 If the reactor chamber is pressure is normalizing... right after the explosion. That doesn't sound good. Also: http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6810.htm Its live right now for us English speaking folks. So yeah, from what I understand, yesterday was reactor 1. Today is reactor 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 I hope they are right about their assessment. I just dislike the language of "very unlikely" and such. It makes me question how sure they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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