Massive 8.9-magnitude quake hits Japan

[Ulysses31]

Trains tossed around like discarded toys: Terrifying pictures reveal full horror of Japan's worst quake

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ght-fires-search-survivors.html#ixzz1GTSP5TnZ

Still smouldering: White smokes rise from burning house in Yamadamachi in Iwate, today after the earthquake caused pandemonium in the area
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Scattered: Train carraiges were thrown from the line in Fukushima and ships were tossed ashore by the tsunami in Aomori province
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Rest: Elderly residents of a nursing home that was evacuated amid fears of a nuclear fallout from the Fukushima Daini plant sleep on their duvets while one man in his mask appears bemused by everything
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Blaze: Thick black smoke rises from burning buildings in a factory zone in Sendai, north-eastern Japan
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Left: A derailed train carriage and piles of debris litter the landscape that will be scarred by the devastation for years to come
Right: Run aground: A container ship stranded, swept half ashore, in Sendai, north-eastern Japan
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[Ulysses31]

Second Explosion Fears At Japan Nuclear Plant

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo...hquake_-_Fears_Grow_Over_Nuclear_Power_Plants

 

[wigster]

I just heard recently that a volcano has erupted in the southwest of Japan as well, it's getting more and more tragic by the day. My heart goes out to all of them.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/14/3162909.htm?section=world

 

[Ulysses31]

And the aftershocks go on: 275 new tremors hit quake-torn Japan as fears grow for missing 10,000 in flattened port town

# 42 survivors have been pulled out of the rubble
# Official death toll hits 763, but many hundreds believed to be buried under rubble or washed away by waves
# Explosion at nuclear power plant, but experts say reactor is not at risk
# Number of people contaminated with radiation could reach 160
# Region hit by hundreds of aftershocks, some up to 6.8-magnitude
# Rescue operation begins but some areas still cut off by road damage and flood waters
# 70,000 people evacuated to shelters in Sendai

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ocks-hamper-rescue-efforts.html#ixzz1GVkgKDpz

Villagers carry relief goods in Minami Sanriku, the worst-hit area where almost 10,000 people have gone missing

A motorcyclist passes by an overturned fishing boat in Hachinohe, Aomori, northern Japan

People walk through the rubble that will take months to sort out in Rikuzentakakata, Iwate Prefecture

A car sits on top of a small building in a destroyed neighborhood in Sendai

The wave from a tsunami crashes over a street in Miyako City in an incredible picture taken on Friday but only just released

A river bank in Sendai is destroyed beyond recognition following the tsunami

Indescribable force: The wave carried a ferry inland leaving perched on top of a house in Otsuchi

Left: An aerial view of the devastation in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi
Right: An old man is piggy-backed to safety after surviving the tsunami in Tagajo near Sendai

A woman searching for her missing husband looks under an overturned truck after an earthquake and tsunami struck Minamisanriku

A convoy of emergency vehicles drive past rubble in Natory City

Flames and smoke rise from a petroleum refining plant next to a heating power station in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture

Japan graphic

 

[Ulysses31]

Dramatic satellite images taken from Eastern Japan show the amount of devastation left behind by Friday's powerful tsunami

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...llite-pictures-devastation.html#ixzz1GWJLaZUc

 

[Trident1]

The destruction is simply obscene.

 

[STDiva]

(Insert insincere blessing here)

 

[Ulysses31]

'Hell on Earth: I've seen 20 wars. But nothing prepared me for this'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-20-wars-But-prepared-this.html#ixzz1GX5RUY9e

There is nothing left: A woman surveys the ravaged town of Minami Sanriku

The wasteland: A few shattered buildings that survived the might of the tsunami stand sentinel over Miami Sanriku, where the devastation stretches as far as the eye can see

Rescue mission: Japanese fire department personnel gently lift a barely conscious woman from the wreckage

Broken home People walk through the debris of what was once a suburb of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture which was hardest hit by Friday's earthquake and tsunami

Nowhere to go: A woman stops to study a framed picture found amongst a mountain of rubbish in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture, while a dazed man (right) searches for his home in the neighbouring town of Rikuzentakata

Close to the edge: A patient in a wheelchair is helped by attendants as they evacuate from a tsunami-affected hospital at Otsuchi


How the earthquake tilted the world's axis by 25cm (and could even cost us a microsecond a day)

* Parts of Japan's coastline shifted 2.4metres

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ke-tilted-worlds-axis-25cm.html#ixzz1GX7BMvJZ

Friday's earthquake was so powerful it shifted the axis on which the Earth rotates

 

[alexpnz]

One of these fucking things are gonna wipe out one of the larger West Coast cities one day.....it's inevitable!
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Area-Tsunami-Warning-117788553.html

 

[TheOrangeCat]

One of these fucking things are gonna wipe out one of the larger West Coast cities one day.....it's inevitable!
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Area-Tsunami-Warning-117788553.html

And we'll be left with the cool, calming waters of ... Arizona Bay.

 

[PirateKing]

Looking at the pictures, I still feel a sense of detachment from this disaster. I have a better understanding of the level of the devastation from the images above but I'm not there so it's hard to take it all in. I'm hopeful for Japan though. Love that country.

And we'll be left with the cool, calming waters of ... Arizona Bay.

:hatsoff: Learn to swim.

 

[Facetious]

One of these fucking things are gonna wipe out one of the larger West Coast cities one day.....it's inevitable!

Sorry to rain on your parade, Alex, but Slip Faults (See San Andreas Fault) don't produce Tsunamis like Strike Faults do.
For now, ''this is as good as it's gonna get and it won't ever get that good again''.

Movie quote... who said it and in what film?.. . Forget it, that was inappropriate of me.




Aside: Suggested videos

Watch a beautiful white ship get demolished
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zfCBCq-8I&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRDpTEjumdo


Horrible! I feel so bad for the people of Japan.

 

[Facetious]

Before/After split screen

 

[saschaxx]

Looks like in Fukushima it ain´t finished yet .....

Poll in Germany : 88% of citizen AGAINST nuclear power.

 

[ragincaucasian]

Bananas!

http://m.gizmodo.com/5781566/this-is-the-scariest-first+person-video-of-the-japan-tsunami-yet

 

[Ulysses31]

I concentrate so much on updating the news and pictures I actually forget to comment on the crisis but hopefully the pictures help raise awareness and keep it in the public mind. Like everyone else we can only feel helpless sitting miles away in comfort and many of us will never face the possibility of facing a tsunami. Amazing to see how the Japanese respond, all helping one another remaining calm which reduces hysteria and chaos, I've seen the young helping/carrying the old which is typical of japanese thinking and even people forming orderly queues when getting supplies, no fighting no panic no riots and no looting. There is even no fundraising drive on any news channel and I can only assume it's because the Japanese are so proud they want to help themselves first before asking for money eventhough so many people worldwide are ready and happy to donate. Japan is also a very generous country and donates lots of money (despite having no natural resources) to countries like India and China eventhough these countries are becoming rapidly wealthier and have vast amounts of natural resources. My thoughts are with the Japanese people at this difficult time and I hope the international community gives them all the help they need. More updates:


Japan faces 'SECOND monster quake and tsunami' as thousands of bodies wash up on beaches

# Second 'monster' quake could measure almost 8 on the Richter scale
# Terrible tide of at least 2,000 bodies wash up on the coastline
# Crews fight to bring reactor at nuclear power plant under control
# Millions left without food and power and hospitals have no medicine

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-hit-stricken-country-days.html#ixzz1GarUJXVC

Devastating: A woman sobs on a road as she surveys the destroyed city of Natori in the region of Miyagi in northern Japan

Bird's eye view: A photograph of the devastation in Sendai taken from a U.S. military helicopter

Laid waste: Huge swathes of land were destroyed when the tsunami hit Sendai in Miyagi province, sweeping away everything in its path

Screening: A mother tries to talk to her daughter who had been isolated for signs of radiation after evacuating from the vicinity of Fukushima's nuclear plants (left). She then drops down to talk to the family dog

Wave of destruction: The ruined shoreline of Sendai (left) and cars burnt out by fires in the wake of the tsunami lined up nearby

Sprint to safety: Two men flee before an unstoppable wave of water in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture

People line up to get kerosene in Hitachi in Ibaraki Prefecture (left) while an aerial picture shows the remnants of train tracks in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture

Reduced to matchsticks: A view of a vast area of tsunami devastated Shizugawa district in Minami Sanriku

Totally destroyed: The town of Minamisanriku town, Miyagi, where 10,000 people are missing


Japan's nightmare gets even WORSE: All THREE damaged nuclear reactors now in 'meltdown' at tsunami-hit power station

* Fuel rods appear to be melting inside three over-heating reactors
* Experts class development as 'partial meltdown'
* Molten fuel could burn through reactor safety shields
* Earlier blast at Fukushima nuclear plant felt 25 miles away
* Eleven workers injured after hydrogen ignited
* 180,000 people have been evacuated from the area
* Engineers desperately trying to cool reactors with sea water
* Up to 160 people so far exposed to radiation


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...plosion-rips-nuclear-plant.html#ixzz1GauFQ4wb

The cost and time taken to repair infrastructure will only lengthen the country's economic recovery


WHAT A DICK


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...arthquake-death-toll-worse-economic-toll.html

 

[Kingfisher]

Sorry to rain on your parade, Alex, but Slip Faults (See San Andreas Fault) don't produce Tsunamis like Strike Faults do.
For now, ''this is as good as it's gonna get and it won't ever get that good again''.

Movie quote... who said it and in what film?.. . Forget it, that was inappropriate of me.




Aside: Suggested videos

Watch a beautiful white ship get demolished
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zfCBCq-8I&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRDpTEjumdo


Horrible! I feel so bad for the people of Japan.

But if an equivalent 8.9/9.0 hit the southern start point of the San Andreas, California could be looking at nearly a million deaths. The southern point is near the south edge of the Salton Sea. And that 7 pointer near the Mexico border is believed to put additional stress on that location because the energy traveled north, rather than south. Pushing on the plates. Either way you look at it, from the sea or from land, California is really screwed in the event.

#1 reason I want to leave this State.

 

[PirateKing]

Sorry to rain on your parade, Alex, but Slip Faults (See San Andreas Fault) don't produce Tsunamis like Strike Faults do.
For now, ''this is as good as it's gonna get and it won't ever get that good again''.

Movie quote... who said it and in what film?.. . Forget it, that was inappropriate of me.

They're spazzing out about a small surge....This is why I can't stand Californians. Maybe they should take a little scope at the coast of Japan.

Btw the quote is from True Romance. :hatsoff:

 

[Kingfisher]

They're spazzing out about a small surge....This is why I can't stand Californians. Maybe they should take a little scope at the coast of Japan.

Btw the quote is from True Romance. :hatsoff:

I completely agree, the news had the morons down at the beaches and harbors "waiting" for the waves. You got to be kidding me. Wipe out Mali-boo-hoo and then they'll realize the real impact. If the same wave had hit our coast it would have wiped everything out from the beach to Culver City.

 

[Trident1]

When the big quake hits LA all the media will do is report how the idiot stars are coping.