Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Disaster

[BlueMoon 1]

Although it was hot spot in Japan, an earthquake, expected every 5 to 10 years struck Japan, causing a tsunami breaking through the entire pacific coast.

 

 

 

Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/japan-earthquake-tsunami_n_834380.html

 

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/japan/2011/03/11/294283/Major-tsunami.htm

[BlueMoon 1]

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and yes, i noticed i fucked up on the forum title.

[christo-f 330]

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I'm on the 24th floor in Beijing and it sent me running out of my apartment.

 

I was the only one, though. I was telling people that there was an EQ and they told me I was crazy. Fuck them, I'm obviously a finely tuned geological early warning mother fucker, mother fucker!!

 

I went back up to the apartment about 10 mins after the initial sway and shit was still swaying up to 15 mins after.

 

 

*in first with the godzilla reference!!

[iloveboxcars 770]

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live video and japanese prime minister currently on tv

 

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

[TheoHuxtable.. 1,444]

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I'm watching it on the news now... seeing that water moving all those homes and cars over land is incredible. Crazy.

[VANDALICIOU$$$ 21]

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damn I'm waatching footage of this on the news right now it reminds me of the boxing day tsunami in 2004

[siks6siks 120]

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[TheoHuxtable.. 1,444]

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Tsunami warnings in Hawaii and the West Coast.

[!@#$% 629]

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damn christof. lucky bastard.

 

 

 

very sad. and incredible footage

i hope i never get the live show.

[Mercer 3,815]

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8375389/Massive-tsunami-hits-Japan-after-earthquake.html

 

Holy shit.

[!@#$% 629]

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oh my fucking mother nature.

 

thanks for posting that

[!@#$% 629]

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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/03/11/vo.whirlpool.earthquake.nhk?hpt=C2

 

 

fuckin boat in that whirlpool!

[alloverthetown 45]

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scary shit man... makes you really think, as these natural disasters get worse..... Crazy. That whirlpool is just unreal.

[Mercer 3,815]

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I don't watch TV or listen to the radio and ended up learning about this from the internetz.

I had a ton of idiots on my facebook referring to this as "the beginning of the end of the world".

I'm hoping my friends in Japan are all OK.

[!@#$% 629]

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hmm, the 2005 earthquake also caused people to flip out.

 

i always find that end of the world shit ridiculous. my dad once said that the world will never be lucky enough to go out in one fell swoop, it'll be a long hard slog to the end of humanity. (and even then i think the world will go on...)

 

however, i DO wonder if there is some crazy geo-thermal shit on the horizon. the chile earthquake a few years back, and this one, are two of the most powerful ever, plus then if you count 05, it's like 3 of the top five were in the past few years. then the seismic activity in the midwest.. just seems, the earth's crust is about to set it off.

 

i'd laugh but then i remember i've got people in japan, hawaii, australia, fuckin hell. hopefully everyone is ok indeed.

[ILOTSMYBRAIN 112]

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Well people say we are due for things like this in the near to far away future, it's just a matter of time.

 

With that being said, this is terrible, the Tsunami footage is unreal, I live in NYC in an area that would be devastated if a Tsunami ever hit. Makes you think.

[!@#$% 629]

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text REDCROSS to donate $10 to tsnuami/quake relief efforts.

 

 

random addition:

and btw, save a life day in March 19th in honor of Gabby Giffords

sign up at your local red cross for a one hour CPR course.

[wearekilluminati 7]

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3/11/11

[Silba 138]

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I dont understand.

[christo-f 330]

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Just woke up, first thing I read is that a reactor over there is on its way to meltdown.

[RES4 12]

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as far as i know there has been a radiation leak after that explosion. theyre evacuating people 10k away

[christo-f 330]

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Expanded to 20ks but they are saying that the reactor vessel wasn't ruptured and radiation is subsiding.

 

Probably true but could possibly be BS and the govt is trying to contain the resulting chaos and coordinate things as best they can.

[RES4 12]

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if theyve increased it to 20k then surely that means its worse than they first thought? as you say, its more likely that they're trying to stop the panic

[RES4 12]

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I just heard on the news that the only explosive material that could have caused the explosion is in the reactor core itself and that the government reassurences are pretty much bullshit.

[Silba 138]

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=[

 

 

That is all, Why didnt they shut the reactor down? was it too far gone after the eartquake/Tsunami? What am I missing here