HUGE earthquake and tsunami hit Japan...

[ungeheuer]

I know...  I am in danger of becoming the harbinger of doom....

...but I just cant get my head around the scale of this.... an 8.9 magnitude earthquake just hit Japan...

8.9

"Seismologists say the quake was 160 times more powerful than the one that devastated Christchurch last month".  

The quake was followed by a massive tsunami - which to greater or lesser degree is progressively being felt throughout the Pacific "The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a tsunami advisories for all of North America's Pacific coast. The first waves are expected to hit North American shores as early as 7:30 a.m. PST, although their size and severity of are not known at this time."

www.abc.net.au/news

www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Major+tsunami+hits+Japan+after+massive+quake

Tsunami engulfs Japanese towns

Japan Quake

Japan is good at earthquake damage mitigation..... but 8.9     I dont recall ever hearing of an 8.anything quake before....

[TiNi]

devastating... what a disaster 

[The Bearded Duc]

I have a really good friend that lives there. I just talked to him and he said they're still feeling aftershocks now, almost 6 hours after the initial quake.

All of the railways are down and airports are closed, people are walking everywhere scared out of their minds. Everyone is crowding the markets and grocery stores for food and supplies.

All he keeps saying is "this is bad, really really bad!".

[IZ]

..upgraded from 7.9 to an 8.4?!  

That is a HUGE fire!

I'm on my old computer and can't make out the video well.  Is that a wave of wood and water with fire burning in the middle?

**Upgraded to 8.9 I just saw!!    Hawaii..WA, CA, OR all Tsunami warnings.

4.5 Mag quake hits Hawaii

[The Bearded Duc]

Hawaii..WA, CA, OR all Tsunami warnings.

I heard the tsunami warnings are all the way from Alaska to South America...

[lethe]

..upgraded from 7.9 to an 8.4?!  

That is a HUGE fire!

I'm on my old computer and can't make out the video well.  Is that a wave of wood and water with fire burning in the middle?

**Upgraded to 8.9 I just saw!! 

yeah burning buildings washing along
I was up all night dealing with my flooded basement and saw all the coverage of this
crazy shit

Japan is good at earthquake damage mitigation..... but 8.9     I dont recall ever hearing of an 8.anything quake before....

the indonesian one a few years back was a 9.0
biggest ever was a 9. something in Chile

[IZ]

I have a really good friend that lives there. I just talked to him and he said they're still feeling aftershocks now, almost 6 hours after the initial quake.

All of the railways are down and airports are closed, people are walking everywhere scared out of their minds. Everyone is crowding the markets and grocery stores for food and supplies.

All he keeps saying is "this is bad, really really bad!".

Yes..I just saw video on Fox. Looks like a movie!!  

South America?!  

That refinery is a nuc plant.  Cooling failures.

The videos being shown with the boats hitting the bridges are bad.  44 dead so far.

[IZ]

yeah burning buildings washing along
I was up all night dealing with my flooded basement and saw all the coverage of this
crazy shit
the indonesian one a few years back was a 9.0
biggest ever was a 9. something in Chile

Sorry to hear about your own tsunami Lethe! 


No radioactive leakage at that plant..so far.

[lethe]

Sorry to hear about your own tsunami Lethe! 


No radioactive leakage at that plant..so far.

my minor thing so pales in comparison I shouldn't have even mentioned it

I was watching those videos and trying to cheer on the poor drivers to get moving, They may not have even seen the wave coming from their vantage point. 

[IZ]

I'm sure they didn't!    This is like watching that Tsunami around Christmas 5-6 years ago.  Caught it when it first happened and only a few people killed and you know how that turned out in the following days.

Sadly, I'm thinking this is going to be in the thousands too. 

[lethe]

I'm sure they didn't!    This is like watching that Tsunami around Christmas 5-6 years ago.  Caught it when it first happened and only a few people killed and you know how that turned out in the following days.

Sadly, I'm thinking this is going to be in the thousands too. 

Hopefully less, they are used to big earthquakes and are probably as well prepared as anyone can be. That should help somewhat. 

[The Bearded Duc]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/map.japan.tsunami/index.html?hpt=T1

Hawaii is expecting first tsunami impact in about 1 hour, the west coast in about 3 to 4 hours.

I'm staring to freak out, I only live 12 miles from the beach.

[IZ]

Can only hope for that!!

Crescent City, CA is supposed to get the worst of the waves later this morning.  CA is supposed to get 2-3' rise at beaches around 10am

Nothing to worry about this time Lethe.  You're East coast, right.

**Oh sh*t..I thought you posted being 12 miles away Lethe.  That was Duc750.  You in Hawaii D?

[The Bearded Duc]

No, I'm in Los Angeles.

Can only hope for that!!

Crescent City, CA is supposed to get the worst of the waves later this morning.  CA is supposed to get 2-3' rise at beaches around 10am

Nothing to worry about this time Lethe.  You're East coast, right.

**Oh sh*t..I thought you posted being 12 miles away Lethe.  That was Duc750.  You in Hawaii D?

Seems we're going to be alright then.

[IZ]

waves moving 500-600 mph.  

3-4 Nuc plants affected but all shut down.  2000 people being evacuated.  Supposedly, no radiation leak but what if it didn't shut down?  Another Chernobyl..just on a larger scale??