Japan [Tag: Fucked]

[schild]

So. 8.9 Earthquake. That's better than Twilight Princess.

That terrible joke out of the way, one of my friends who lives there is OK though his building swayed for like an hour or some shit. Sendai is basically destroyed. Oil refineries in Chiba are on fire. Shit might hit in places as far away as Hawaii.

Summation: The Pacific Ocean Hates Everyone.

[schild]

This should be in Gen Disc. There's nothing political about a country being ravaged by mother nature.

Edit: Yea, I just modded myself. So what.

[Surlyboi]

My friends and family in Tokyo are fine. Still haven't heard anything from my peeps in Sendai yet...

[schild]

Another massive quake is imminent under Honshu.

Oregon and California have tsunami warnings now.

[K9]

Shit, that's a big one.

[FatuousTwat]

Wtf Pacific? WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? >:(


Also: "Based upon data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, it is estimated the town of Kurihara has been completely destroyed." Jesus.


Edit:

Oregon and California have tsunami warnings now.

Welp, glad I don't know anybody who lives on the coast I guess.

[Fordel]

Al Jazeera English on YouTube Is Streaming Live.

There are a few videos where you can see people trying to drive away from the water. It's pretty  


-edit- How do you un-youtube the link?

Edit by Trippy: nm

[penfold]

Yeh it's a bad one. Just saw a shot of Sendai Airport and it and the area were under a layer of mud from the Tsunami. That exploding oil refinery would be a massive story in it's own right.

[Bzalthek]

http://jibtv.com/program/?page=0

This may also prove useful for info: Japanese info/news (in English) live stream about the situation.

[K9]

Al Jazeera Live Stream

It's good coverage

[Trippy]

Hawaii is now not expecting a tsunami. I would assume the rest of the West coast of NA will get the same advisory soon.

Edit: oops that's wrong, the below advisory is from a local earthquake in Hawaii. That local earthquake is not expected to create a tsunami.

http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/index.php
http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=hawaii.2011.03.11.090127

000
SEHW70 PHEB 110901
EQIHWX

HIZ001>003-005>009-012>014-016>021-023>026-111101-

TSUNAMI SEISMIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NUMBER   1
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
1101 PM HST THU MAR 10 2011

TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT - LOCAL TSUNAMI INFORMATION

THIS STATEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. NO ACTION REQUIRED.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

   ORIGIN TIME - 1058 PM HST 10 MAR 2011
   COORDINATES - 19.3 NORTH  155.0 WEST
   LOCATION    - ON THE SOUTH FLANK OF KILAUEA VOLCANO
   MAGNITUDE   - 4.6

EVALUATION

 NO TSUNAMI IS EXPECTED. REPEAT. NO TSUNAMI IS EXPECTED.
 HOWEVER...SOME AREAS MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED SHAKING.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
...SP...

[Riggswolfe]

Well, maybe the Mayans were right after all! In all honesty what caught my eye was reading that this might be the worst earthquake since 1900 or so. I also can't help wondering what larger effects this will have, mostly economically since everything is so damned interconnected now.

[K9]

[Fordel]

That Oil Refinery just keeps getting worse and worse from the footage.

[K9]

The Tsunami Warning Centre has upgraded the warning for the west coast of US; they are now expecting something to hit California-Oregon

[Fordel]

Now one of their reactors has declared a nuclear emergency! The cooling systems pumps are not pumping and they are using their fail-safe backups or something.

[Hawkbit]

Hopes and prayers out to those affected. 

[Hoax]

Fucking tsunami just woke me up, people on east coast calling me.

I like within sight of the Pacific in Santa Cruz atm. I am on a hill. Its debatable.

Its really hard to gauge, what does a 4 foot swell mean you know? That seems to be the worst case scenario and it should be much less.

The areas of most concern, according to the National Weather Service, are the north end of Monterey Bay near the Santa Cruz harbor.

Annoying, that is basically where I live. May just go up a hill and watch this shit live, could be cool. I wish I had a video camera.

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. Those feeling the earth shake, seeing unusual wave action, or the water level rising or receding may have only a few minutes before the tsunami arrival and should move immediately. Homes and small buildings are not designed to withstand tsunami impacts. Do not stay in these structures.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hawaii/detail?entry_id=84799#ixzz1GIeVvSuT 

[Teleku]

Haha, yeah, I just got woken up by people calling in a panic about the Tsunami as well.  I'm currently staying at somebodies house in SF, on top of a hill, so I'm pretty sure I'm fine, heh.  If I wasn't lazy, I might try to go down to the coast and see if I can watch it come crasing in.

In more serious news, a very good friend of mine just recently moved back to Japan to teach English, and was living/working in Sendai at a high school.  On her facebook people are posting they've gotten through to her on the cell phone and she's ok (just doesn't have internet) but thats still shitty.  Sendai got the crap kicked out of it.

[Sky]

Just mind blowing to think of the actual event under water that could push up such massive waves that they're still 4' high after traveling a third of the way around the world.

Then I chuckle about the hubris of 'man destroying the planet'. Mother Nature will shake us off like a bad case of the fleas (RIP Carlin).

[Merusk]

Man destroying the planet has never been about man actually destroying the planet, just laying waste so we can't inhabit it.  It was packaged and marketed all wrong like most science.

Al-J has been covering the Brussels talks more than the earthquake right now.  Have there been any aftershocks yet?  With an 8.9 I've got to imagine there will be one in the high 5's or 6's at the least.

[schild]

There were 6s and 7s through at least 3AM while I was talking to a friend in Japan. He was still getting aftershocks when I passed out.

[Khaldun]

One of the aerial-shot tsunami videos on BBC this morning was terrifying to watch--houses on fire and trucks being swept across farmland, the wave gets to a small cluster of houses and retail at a crossroads, and you can see people driving desperately to try and get away, only the thing is coming from almost all angles, so two of the cars drive away in one direction only to drive straight into the oncoming water in the other direction. It looked to me like one guy got offroad into the farmed land but then the helicopter turned away, so who knows whether he made it or not.

[Hoax]

I'm ignoring this shit unless they say something about a wave next time.

Worst.
Tsunami.
Ever.

[Nerf]

I'm very, very disappointed in all of you that I had to be the first one to post this.

[Murgos]

I'm very, very disappointed in all of you that I had to be the first one to post this.

Because real people are dying?  Personally, I'm not surprised you were the first one to post it.

[HaemishM]

The video on the news this morning was just horrifying, but the coverage was worse. They show these fantastically frightening pictures without any context to just how far inland the pics come from. I mean, are we talking 6 miles, 20 miles? Scale is so hard to judge from helicopter shots but all I can say is I'm glad I'm not on the coast of anything. Sendai is curbstomped. Prayers go out to the folks affected by this.

[Ghambit]

Man, all that heart and soul they put into rebuilding Sendai airport and now it's layed to ruin.

[Chimpy]

Watching some of that tsunami video is surreal.

Just proves the stuff you hear on the documentaries all the time that offshore quakes are more devestating than ones that are centered under land due to the tsunami.

[Arthur_Parker]

The video on the news this morning was just horrifying, but the coverage was worse.

Rolling 24 hour news has a lot to answer for, the repeating small footage segments are marginally better than the on site reporter bit, with some dude who knows less than we do talking from somewhere nearby for absolutely no reason.  The channels all seem to play the same footage, I think the video has passed through so many hands by the time it reaches the screen they don't really know anything about it, except maybe a place name.

Really horrible to watch how helpless you are in this type of situation, wrong place at the wrong time and your escape options are very limited if you even have any.

[WayAbvPar]

Watching some of that tsunami video is surreal.

Just proves the stuff you hear on the documentaries all the time that offshore quakes are more devestating than ones that are centered under land due to the tsunami.

That is going to be Seattle someday soon. We are well overdue for a massive offshore quake. Hopefully it will hold off until I have long since shuffled off this mortal coil.

[Merusk]

With your luck I'd say it's more likely to be the day you pay off your mortgage.

[WayAbvPar]

Oh god, you are right. Of course, I will probably still be underwater on the fucker until the last payment the way housing prices are going.

I really wish I would have heard about this quake/tsunami last night...I hate being at work where streaming video is taboo. Anyone have suggestions for good up to date text/photo updates?

[K9]

The Guardian Website has a good liveblog: LINK

True to form, the Daily Mail asks the hard-hitting questions; Is the Japanese earthquake the latest natural disaster to have been caused by a 'supermoon'? 

[Chimpy]

That is going to be Seattle someday soon. We are well overdue for a massive offshore quake. Hopefully it will hold off until I have long since shuffled off this mortal coil.

Nah, an offshore quake is not what Seattle has to worry about, it is the pyroclastic flow coming off Ranier when it finally blows.