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Major Japan Earthquake!

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Tracon

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Japan hit by 8.9 quake less than an hour ago!

Are you guys watching the footage on CNN?! This is incredibly scary stuff. It is nothing but tremors and tsunami's now. Harbors are completely flooded and airports are all but buried.

TURN ON CNN.
 
They are really copping a bashing over there at the moment...Japan's turn this time...who's next...gulp.
 
Tsunami warnings are in place for regions as far away as Indonesia and all points between.
No idea of China but I imagine they will feel some effects.
Last I heard a couple of hours ago the estimated height is around 4 Metres and the undersea quake was between 7 and 8 on the Richter scale.
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Now the warnings include Canadian and US west coast as well. Some of the Pacific Islands in the path are lower then the height of the wave so they won't fare well. I have two friends in Guam who met and married while in the service and decided to stay on there as civvies. My thoughts are with them and anyone else in the path of this.

**edit - man Wiki people are fast. I looked up that Sendai Airport that we keep seeing flooded and the wiki entry already mentions this in the airport's history.

On a hopefully bright side Taiwan has passed the ETA of the wave some time ago with no discernible impact. We can hope that means it is dissipating faster then expected.
 
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Midway Island reported an 8 footer. Hawaii to know within a half hour or so.
There is at least one nuke power plant in Japan that is presently unable to pump cooling water... major bad.

One day this will happen off of our Oregon coast. We're due.

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Live from Tokyo

I'm stack in a McDnald's on my way home. It seems I have to spend a night here.

Tokyo is genarally OK.
Commuter trains are all stopped and lots of people are wandering on the street to seek somewhere to spend a night in a warm environment.

There are town-scale blackout in some metropolitan area and suberbs of Tokyo.
Shops are closing earlier than usual.

Airport is closing.
Traficcs are jammed.

Situation is becoming far worse in northan part of Japan.
There are still large afterquakes continues.
There are reports that relatively old buildings are collapsed .
Never-seen-before scale tsunamis are hitting, swallowing cars and houses with people.
There are a few tens of confirmed casualities and numers of people are missing.

There are a lot of earth quakes every year, but this one was the first that I felt scared and I might have been killed.

Dear friend simmers, plz keep your fingers crossed for us, especially in need of immediate help.

Ragerds

Daisuke
 
Keeping my fingers crossed for the people involved. Even though Japan seems to be kind of used to earthquakes, this is so much worse! I am shocked!

Alex
 
What a disaster. Imagine how much worse it would be without the specially constructed buildings. The ring has been active recently and I fear for California, it's been too quiet there.

They're crossed Daisuke!
 
My thoughts and best vibes for their safety go out to all people concerned. My heart goes out to all affected by this immense disaster.

Please good care of yourselves and others,
Maarten
 
My thoughts go out to the people of Japan. 8.9 on the Richter scale is massive. To quote from the USGS website on how the scale is measured...
"On the Richter Scale, magnitude is expressed in whole numbers and decimal fractions. For example, a magnitude 5.3 might be computed for a moderate earthquake, and a strong earthquake might be rated as magnitude 6.3. Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude; as an estimate of energy, each whole number step in the magnitude scale corresponds to the release of about 31 times more energy than the amount associated with the preceding whole number value."
I emphasised the part in red so you could get a feel for just how massive this quake is. Wow.
 
My thoughts and prays are with all involved with this tragic event. I have been just informed that the Aleutian islands has just been hit by a a small tsunami.
 
bad day indeed... my thoughts go out to everyone affected by this quake and tsunami... scary thing is Lunar Perigee isn't till march 18th (Point where it's closest to earth and exerts the most gravitational pull on our planet) that may cause some bad weather or worse...

again my thoughts and prayers to all it has affected...
 
My thoughts go out to the Japanese people . This is absolutely a devastating tragedy . Here is hope for a smooth and safe rebuild of your country . I was stationed in Japan in 1966(Iwakuni) and although we never experienced a quake we were always very vigilant and had emergency plans in case it did happen .

Rich
 
If it wasnt for Japans continued vigilance for all these decades, the death count could have been magnitudes worse. The tsunami will also impact borneo,the Philippines, australia, new zealand, the US, and south america to various lesser degrees.. I'll be keeping a special place in my heart for all the victims of this disaster..
Pam
 
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Aftermath felt strongly here stateside as well: Crescent City, California's harbor effectively destroyed by an 8+ foot tsunami wave not long ago:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/11/national/main20042243.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CBSNewsPCAnswer+%28PC+Answer%3A+CBSNews.com%29

5 swept out to sea, one still missing (a man who went down to the docks to photograph the tsunami's arrival).

My heart & thoughts go out to the many people affected & who will be affected in the coming hours..
 
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