Earthquake off Japanese shore, Tsunami hits the Mainland

Solar

This is the Guardian's article

There's a video in the link which is just, well, it shows the tsunami just sweeping through shoreland farms.

And anyone using google can note that there are tsunami warnings on the main page for pretty much msot of the south east pacific.

Artreus

Good lord watching the video of the tsunami is just insane.

Hope enough people got warnings early enough.

Darkness Mundus

man. fucking hell.

Sars_Boy

Some of my friends have already been effected by this. Really sucks.

Fishman

Everytthing past page 5 in the Supermoon thread is basically talking about this.

smof

That video is crazy. It's like some kind of massive blob monster that just doesn't stop. Awful seeing the cars and things trying to drive away about 3 minutes in.

Whenever crap like this happens it always makes me think of how much people here in England complain about our weather all the time, and how much I want to smack those people.

Indie Winter

ok, so how long before the charities kick in

I'm betting celebrities are being called to recording studios to make heartfelt pleas as we speak

Artreus

I.H.N.I.W.T.R. wrote: »

ok, so how long before the charities kick in

I'm betting celebrities are being called to recording studios to make heartfelt pleas as we speak

Is that a bad thing?

thedude_frombaywatch

Saw it on kotaku
http://kotaku.com/#!5780916/japans-gaming-greats-react-to-earthquake-crisis/gallery/1

Woke up my wife because she has family in japan. That's crazy.

Indie Winter

Artreus wrote: »

I.H.N.I.W.T.R. wrote: »

ok, so how long before the charities kick in

I'm betting celebrities are being called to recording studios to make heartfelt pleas as we speak

Is that a bad thing?

no, just a sadly predictable one

SabreMau

Aftershocks:



(not including ones below 5.0)

Nirya

SabreMau wrote: »

Aftershocks:

http://i.imgur.com/Bxq1Z.png
(not including ones below 5.0)

That's the scariest part. There's probably a ton of minor aftershocks hitting that area at the same time.

Peter Ebel

I can't really say much outside of how horrified I am. Poor sons of bitches.

Sweeney Tom

China had an earthquake too

And Hawaii's about to have a big tsunami

smof

Honshu looks like it's getting fucked

Lost Salient

Here's the article in our paper, for people who compulsively search for multiple sources:

Chosun Ilbo

SabreMau

Hawaiian TV station reporting that Midway Island (closer to Japan than they are) just recorded a first wave of 8 feet.

Fyndir

"The headline you won't be reading: "Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and government building codes". Buts it's the truth."

Something I saw on Twitter, thought I'd share it with you fine gentlepeople.

Solar

Fyndir wrote: »

"The headline you won't be reading: "Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and government building codes". Buts it's the truth."

Something I saw on Twitter, thought I'd share it with you fine gentlepeople.

Yeah i was going to say, surely Japan, a country with 20% of recorded annual seismic activity, would have made sure that they know how to deal with these kinds of problems through their engineering and emergency plans. It sounds like a horrible, horrible thing to say, but I think that had it happened somewhere else it might have been a lot worse.

Artreus

I did notice that a lot of buildings did not collapsed. Because they did what they were designed to do. Which is survive earthquakes in a region prone to earthquakes.

Arrath

I'm getting chills watching footage of the tsunami. Holy fuck.

Artreus

Solar wrote: »

Fyndir wrote: »

"The headline you won't be reading: "Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and government building codes". Buts it's the truth."

Something I saw on Twitter, thought I'd share it with you fine gentlepeople.

Yeah i was going to say, surely Japan, a country with 20% of recorded annual seismic activity, would have made sure that they know how to deal with these kinds of problems through their engineering and emergency plans. It sounds like a horrible, horrible thing to say, but I think that had it happened somewhere else it might have been a lot worse.

Well there was that whole thing in Haiti, where an earthquake much less powerful flattened a whole lot of buildings.

That was terrible.

SabreMau

Surviving shaking is one thing. Surviving a broadside of 30 feet of ocean water with that much weight behind it is completely another.

RoyceSraphim

So that tsunami simultaniously planted a boat in the middle of a farm AND carried something that was ON FIRE onto the freeway, at least, thats what I saw in the video. I'm in Djibouti and there is a Japanese military base here that trains for desert deployment and I really feel bad for those guys, not saying that I don't sympathize with people who are in japan or come from japan, or know japanese people....I mean....I just feel bad for these guys deployed overseas and their home country/town/ just got tsunami'd.

tynic

phewph, just got some facebook updates from my friend and her daughter caught in the middle of this. They seem to be ok and safe for the time being.

SabreMau

Big Red Tie

pretty glad i live in the middle of oahu
gonna stay up to see what happens

Sars_Boy

D: D: D:

Big Red Tie

also shit is that the nuclear reactor or whatever?

chidona

Big Red Tie wrote: »

also shit is that the nuclear reactor or whatever?

Oil refinery, I think.
Lots of conflicting reports vis-a-vis the nuclear reactors (some reports that the cooling systems for nuclear plants have been compromised).

bwanie

at least one nuclear facility is on fire at the moment yes. don't know if that is it.

SabreMau

That's not it. The one nuclear plant with problems suffered a coolant system failure, not a huge inferno. That's the refinery.

Artreus

No that is just gas. Or something.

What reports I've seen about nuclear reactors is that they have done what they should do: i.e. shut down.

SabreMau

Just watching a Hawaiian TV station here, first waves due in about an hour.

Big Red Tie

also the at&t network seems to be down for some reason
gonna go watch more news (no one is on skype to talk to!)

oh ok now it's up. informing my friend who went to sleep at 6 (before the earthquake) and just woke up

Sars_Boy

Wonder if this'll hit Washington at all?

Also wonder what my Japanese teacher is gonna say in class.

thedude_frombaywatch

How long has this super moon been known here. First time i've heard of it. Amazing stuff

Crashmo

Well what a pile of bullocks to wake up to

thedude_frombaywatch

Seriously, this is when i enjoy the internet the most. For this very reason. I love the coverage and information that is just instant. This is why I think the internet is awesome.

Artreus

thedude_frombaywatch wrote: »

How long has this super moon been known here. First time i've heard of it. Amazing stuff

I'm glaring at you angrily

Crashmo

ack, you can see the tiny cars driving while the waves sweep the town

hope any forumers and forumer's friends/family in the area are okay