HUGE ****ING EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN 8.9 MAGNITUDE FOLLOWED BY 7.5 AFTERSHOCK

[Buck]

IVE HEARD 8.8 OR 7.9

Thats a huge difference, but 7.9 is still ****ing huge.

Good luck Japan

Edit: 11/21/16 - Amother Big Earthquake has hit the area and tsunami coming

[teedubya]

Yeah. The Earthquake was on 3-11, though. OMG!!!

I'm looking for 7-11, so I can get a slurpee.

[BryanBusby]

Too soon?



But seriously, what an awful thing. I'm not one that normally donates, but I'm going to toss $10 to the relief efforts and would suggest others to if they can afford it.

[teedubya]

I'd say a bit too soon, bro.

The Nikkei dropped 500 points at open... this should be interesting to watch this evening. i wonder how many points the Japanese market will crash today.... 1000+ ?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^N225

[BryanBusby]

With shit like rolling black outs on the horizon and the upcoming bill for rebuilding, a 1000 point drop would probably be tame.

E: Quake warning issued for Tokyo.

Mother nature is not being kind to them right now. Jesus

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by BryanBusby

With shit like rolling black outs on the horizon and the upcoming bill for rebuilding, a 1000 point drop would probably be tame.

E: Quake warning issued for Tokyo.

Mother nature is not being kind to them right now. Jesus

Lesson: Don't build a nation on a ****ing island.

[BigMeatballDave]

Probably already posted, but I heard today that Friday's quake moved Japan 8ft, and shifted the Earths axis 10".

[Just Passin' By]

Japan nuclear safety agency confirms hydrogen explosion at Fukushima Daiichi plant No.3.


There are also conflicting reports about the possibility that another tsunami is on the way.

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2

[tk13]

CNN is reporting people are being told to move to higher ground in NE Japan. Live right now. Expecting up to 3 meter waves.

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by Bob Dole

Lesson: Don't build a nation on a ****ing island when your island is prominently located on the Ring Of Fire, the most badass tectonic area of the planet which wreaks havoc by sending earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes after anything living.

FYP

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by tk13

CNN is reporting people are being told to move to higher ground in NE Japan. Live right now. Expecting up to 3 meter waves.

Good Christ! WTF did these people do to piss off the Gods to bad?

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by alnorth

well, better them than us. Even in California, we only have to deal with one major fault. The island of Japan is in the middle of the horrifying dreaded "ring of fire" with 3 major active continental faults.

Yeah, and the San Andreas runs right up into the even scarier and totally ignored Cascadia fault line, which probably hit Japan with a killer tsumani hundreds of years ago and also may have given birth to the Native legend of the "Thunderbird". I would bet that when "the big one" hits it's going to trigger both the San Andreas and Cascadia faults, which will basically destroy everything from Vancouver to Ensenada Mexico. People joke about the west coast falling into the ocean, but that's pretty much what would happen.

Of course, on the other hand, the east coast is due for a quake too. And because of the solid rock, they say if an L.A.-style quake hit Atlanta it would be felt up in New York City... and since the buildings in the east aren't built for it, we're ****ed.

Even if Japan goes total Chernobyl with thousands exposed to high radiation, we'll learn a lot from their mistakes and design even safer reactors from this valuable experience. This should not discourage us ***at all*** from nuking up the entire United States, except maybe near the west coast and near the new madrid fault close to St. Louis.

Japan is a crappy place to build a nuclear reactor, but there are lots and lots of tectonically stable places far from any ocean in the US where nuclear reactors would be absolutely perfect and ideal.

There is so much misinformation and fearmongering going on in the media right now. Nothing modern will "go Chernobyl" because Chernobyl was an unshielded piece of shit, whereas the modern reactors found in places like the U.S. and Japan are heavily shielded. Nuclear energy is pretty cheap, so they spend a good deal of money on the containment buildings. Short of an earthquake ripping the containment building apart, even a "meltdown" is probably going to be contained within the building. Sure, it'll be unusable, but it's not going to result in humans within 1000 miles turning into Swamp Things. But, yes, we can "learn a lot from their mistakes", in terms of, "Don't build your ****ing nuclear reactor on the coastline when you know there's a very good possibility of a tsunami."

[teedubya]

I don't understand WHY another big tsunami would be coming... there hasn't been any huge aftershocks recently.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_all.php

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by teedubya

I don't understand WHY another big tsunami would be coming... there hasn't been any huge aftershocks recently.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_all.php

There was a report of a 6.2 aftershock on the Reuters 'live' site, but that was somewhere around 9 o'clock.

[BigMeatballDave]

Tsunami warning cancelled.

[Just Passin' By]

Regarding the tsunami:

Vibrations from the explosion of the nuclear plant triggered the tsunami warning- Fox News