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

Clipsey said:
Experts have been saying this is not what is expected to happen, where the the ocean recesses back first.
Pearl Harbor reporting that it has gone through the area and was insignificant. Hope this is the case.
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true, I guess japan 'had' the tsunami, this is just a wave hopefully it piddles out across the ocean.
 
From the BBC live coverage: 1349: Ryan McGuinness on the Hawaiian island of Maui tells CNN that he is standing about 10ft away from the shore. He says there have been surges, during which the sea has advanced about 20ft further inland than normal. But now, he says, the sea level has receded about 200ft, exposing reefs and rocks which are normally always covered. People are calm, he adds, but they are now moving to higher ground.

That must be a horrible feeling seeing that happen, when the sea suddenly goes way out like they describe there. And I wouldn't want to be standing only 10ft from the shore, even if the approaching wave may be fairly small.
 
tigerstyle said:
I guess as the caption says that was just a 'fireball' it would have settled down after that. But yeah, not an easy one to put out, turn the taps off and just stand well back?

It's night time there now too, easy to forget about, makes all this escaping/rescuing so much harder!
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I'm not sure it did settle down, thats what I meant they were filming the fire for ages from a chopper and even from that, which was minutes/hours later, not sure, it was still dwarfing the buildings around it, which was shocking, because its not really an explosion but an ongoing fire thats so big the firemen were simply cooling buildings and couldn't get seemingly within a couple hundred metres of it, too hot.

I guess the obvious answer would be, the fire will go out when it runs out of oil, which will take a while. Is it because pressure from the other tanks are literally shooting oil into the sky a couple hundred metres? I have no idea.

CNN has live tv from japan tv, unfortunately they seem to be getting lots and lots of footage of overturned boats, I'm not sure boats that got dragged inland will easily slip out back to see but rather get caught in the mud, so capsided boats are likely fishing/other boats out to sea when it happened. :(
 
Frozo said:
Not having ago here but it annoys me about people talking about global warming,

No one was around when the Ice Age melted so just because the planet is going through it's cycle we can't blame everything on global warming, okay we might contribute to it but we're not to blame for everything
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Just wanted to point out that it seems you are assuming that when someone refers to global warming that that they are also refering to 'man-made' global warming which are 2 completely different things...
 
I've just got home from work and started watching BBC News, it's incredible how little damage the earthquake caused considering how powerful it was, yet how much damage the resulting Tsunami has caused.

The scenes from Sendai (or however it's spelt!) are horrific, utter devastation.
 
drunkenmaster said:
I'm not sure it did settle down, thats what I meant they were filming the fire for ages from a chopper and even from that, which was minutes/hours later, not sure, it was still dwarfing the buildings around it, which was shocking, because its not really an explosion but an ongoing fire thats so big the firemen were simply cooling buildings and couldn't get seemingly within a couple hundred metres of it, too hot.
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Yeah it won't just settle down with a failure this massive it will compromise containment measures one at a time causing huge explosions each time one goes, dieing down a bit between them as it errodes through to the next.
 
1410: Japan's government has declared an emergency situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after a reactor cooling system malfunction. But officials say there is no radiation leaking. Some 3,000 residents living near the plant in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, have been told to evacuate the area.
 
awaybreaktoday said:
1410: Japan's government has declared an emergency situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after a reactor cooling system malfunction. But officials say there is no radiation leaking. Some 3,000 residents living near the plant in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, have been told to evacuate the area.
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From what I've heard its a pretty critical failure - no imminent/immediate problem but another strong aftershock/earthquake would likely be catastrophic i.e. think chernobyl.
 
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