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Gargamel

03-11-11 01:35 AM

Japanese Tsunami

Quote:

TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese television has shown major tsunami damage in northern Japan on Friday, following a magnitude-7.9 earthquake.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT

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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said a tsunami warning was in effect for Japan, Russia, Marcus Island and the Northern Marianas. A tsunami watch has been issued for Guam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and U.S. state of Hawaii.

Let's hope all our subsimmer's along the pacific rim are all ok.

Quote:

Public broadcaster NHK showed cars, trucks, houses and buildings being swept away by tsunami in Onahama city in Fukushima prefecture.

Gargamel

03-11-11 01:51 AM

Been upgraded:

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The quake that struck 2:46 p.m. was followed by a series of aftershocks, including a 7.4-magnitude one about 30 minutes later. The U.S. Geological Survey upgraded the strength of the first quake to a magnitude 8.8.

8.8 :o

CCIP	03-11-11 02:05 AM

I turned on live TV, and I first see boats swept away, then cars floating down streets, then HOUSES floating down streets.

Good god this is massive :o

The live pictures from there, where the tsunami is still ongoing and continuing to move ashore, are seriously apocalyptic.

Gargamel

03-11-11 02:14 AM

8.9 now

Gargamel

03-11-11 02:42 AM

Live feed here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

Rilder

03-11-11 03:13 AM

Watching the Al Jazeera Stream (Well listening really since connection is too slow to play the video well)
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Edit: So how long till Fox starts blaming the liberals and Obama?

Too Soon?

Tchocky

03-11-11 04:31 AM

Watching this live on BBC. Jaw-dropping.

Gargamel

03-11-11 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Rilder (Post 1617016)

Edit: So how long till Fox starts blaming the liberals and Obama?

Too Soon?

Yes... too soon :O:

Gargamel

03-11-11 04:38 AM

Apparently an Oil refinery went up in the fires.

Current news conference says it's the largest quake to Japan in recorded history.

Tsunami is over 7m they say.

Matador.es

03-11-11 04:41 AM

Incredible. The footage is shocking! They say it’s the worst eart shake in 250 years…

joegrundman

03-11-11 04:45 AM

holy moly. i only left tokyo a year ago.

best place i ever lived in

TarJak

03-11-11 04:51 AM

Looks very nasty. I heard a short while ago that the confirmed death toll had reached 19. IT looks like a large part of the northeastern coast has been devestated!

Gargamel

03-11-11 04:59 AM

TarJak.... have you heard anything about a warning there about tsunami's? The PTWC seems to have issued an alert for the entire Pacific.

http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/index.php?region=1

The aerial footage of the wave hitting shore is amazing. The photography from this one will far surpass the Sumatra quake.

Tchocky

03-11-11 05:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Gargamel (Post 1617050)

The aerial footage of the wave hitting shore is amazing. The photography from this one will far surpass the Sumatra quake.

That's something I've noticed, and I hope it plays into rescue/casualty results. More aerial footage implies more helicopters, more chance of rescuing people. Japan is much better equipped to deal with this kind of thing than somewhere such as Banda Aceh was.

joegrundman

03-11-11 05:13 AM

japan is superbly well equipped.

The very large building we worked in was built on enormous (and i mean enormous) springs to cope with large earthquakes

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