Earthquake in Japan....9.0...ouch!

lol Japan are just ridiculous to be fair to them. They are so well organised and efficient it's amazing!
 
I may sound like a complete **** here but IMO it's such a tragedy that arguably the greatest nation has had to suffer this. Japan has brought the world so much, technology included... I'm not saying that I'd prefer it to happen to any other nation at all but it's just such a shame that it is the peaceful country of Japan that has suffered this mayhem.
 
I'd argue that if i was forced at gunpoint to pick a nation to suffer this disaster, i would pick Japan. Not only have they got arguably the best infrastructure to handle the initial impact, they've also got the best cultural ideals to allow them to deal with the aftermath.
 
Streeteh said:
I'd argue that if i was forced at gunpoint to pick a nation to suffer this disaster, i would pick Japan. Not only have they got arguably the best infrastructure to handle the initial impact, they've also got the best cultural ideals to allow them to deal with the aftermath.
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That's a fair point. They do seem to be coping incredibly well and just dealing with it. (based on info from this thread and a few other sources) I do feel it just to be a waste though. A waste of man power etc. I'm not sure why I'm saying this, as there is sweet **** all anyone could have done to prevent it.
 
There are plenty of other countries that deserve a good shake up but anyway enough about that, what areas so far have had BIG earthquakes in the last 20years?
 
RKO said:
I think the point of the zoomed out image on the right was to show as much of the road repaired already as they could.

Incredible people.
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I mentioned it earlier in the thread but the public works side is fantastic. Round the clock work (noise and regulations permitting), taking pride and care to get things finished. Even up in mountains away from civilisation, they'll be in decent nick. A far cry from the pot hole down the road which is still there 6 months on!

SkScotchegg said:
I think everyone in the world just wants this to be over now, it's such an awful situation, a really terrible disaster but I think the world needs to get together and support japan best as possible until this situation is under control. And even when this does end, we can't forget those that have died and we need to help rebuild japan and support the survivors.
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Unfortunately once the nuclear situation is under control all the international press will be off just as things are truly beginning. As a friend said it's been survival the past few days, for which they are thankful. But there's more hard work to come as people wonder what to do after they've lost everything.
 
Yeah, I was saying earlier, survival, short term stuff is manageable, to a degree, theres teams for dealing with this stuff, and stockpiles of things like oil, fuel, food, and sheltering half a million people in massive buildings for several days without showers and running water, and space is doable, over weeks and months will become pretty bad. You've got 70k damaged buildings I think at last count, around 7000-8000 completely destroyed, and farms that will cause food shortages for a long time to come, and all this as stockpiles of emergency ration's, fuel/oil supplies are used up.

Hopefully the international community won't get "bored" of the situation there because nothing new is happening and continue to support them.
 
They should use the millions of reporters over there as slave labour, surely they'll be the least bit useful then. In fact, the British government should shutdown the BBC and divert all excess funds towards Japan as charity.
 
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/5...-feet-haiti-chile-and-taiwan-the-ring-of-fire


just a snippet of a blog a year before the BIG japan earthquake.


Also with regard to previous posting of very distressing earthquake images in this thread for their HIGH emotional content ...i'm undecided on it but not sure it feels right. Feels like an intrusion into someone's grief e.g. the picture of the board with all the names missing and the girl (obviously grief stricken) who is looking at the names

"earthquake porn" ? dunno....

still.. :(
 
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Does anyone know if the people that lost their homes will get reimbursed? Will the Japanese government pay for them a new home? or give them some kind of payout? What schemes do they have setup in Japan for this sort of thing?

Surely they wont let the survivors just be homeless on the street with no food or shelter?

And also surely because Japan is different to my country, England, surely because they get really bad earthquakes they have schemes setup to help fund for new homes where as in England we wouldn't have schemes like that because we don't have earthquakes?

Like some sort of "mother nature disaster scheme", not sure what you'd call this sort of thing?
 
SkScotchegg said:
Does anyone know if the people that lost their homes will get reimbursed? Will the Japanese government pay for them a new home? or give them some kind of payout? What schemes do they have setup in Japan for this sort of thing?

Surely they wont let the survivors just be homeless on the street with no food or shelter?
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NO idea, but Im sure residents will have been registered to some sort of local resgister or have insurance. Im sure the government will help rebuild houses for them.

Have to say the Japanese have handled the crisis pretty well considering how much s*** they are going through with the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear meltdown, snow/cold weather, fuel, power, food and water shortages and also the stockmarkets/currency in turmoil.

tbh, I don't think they can hold off the reactors much longer but I'm pretty sure they will do what they can to minimise the fallout.
 
They are restoring power to the plant in order to cool overheating rods apparently, looks like a meltdown is to be avoided


Seems kinda ironic that a power plant becomes so dangerous when it has no way to provide electricity
 
lol. Just read [West Coast] Americans are panic buying anti-radiation drugs and geiger counters in preparation for the fallout.

Surely, it would take something much more severe than Chernobyl for any radiation to even get to the West coast unless I'm mistaken?
 
This is America you're talking about, home of FOX News, I expected nothing less from those clowns :p
 
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