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

Dunks · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:49

That whirlpool

Participant · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:50

LolLucero, once again.

Liquid_Entity · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:51

Kerplunk said:
Well if YT hasnt been blocked...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8zyscGWe4

Thanks, omg that is scary as hell !!

oddjob62 · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:52

Lucero said:
Seriously, these are so common for Japan it's a non issues really.

This was recorded 2 days earlier!

http://www.nowpublic.com/environmen...video-tsunami-alert-honshu-coast-2764943.html

The Richter Scale is logarithmic, so the difference between 7.2 and 8.9 is HUGE!!!

Redrum · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:53

Lucero said:
Seriously, these are so common for Japan it's a non issues really.

Japan does get a lot of earthquakes and most of the buildings are well protected against them, but it doesn't make them a non-issue. 40 people died in the quake in 2007 (and on the subject of nuclear power stations, the biggest one in the world was shut down and they still haven't finished repairing it). About 6,500 people died in the one is 1995 and that was only a 6.8. This one was an 8.8.

trigger-happy · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:54

go to the NHK news channel on sky, they have more precise details about the quake.

steve258 · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:55

I live in Osaka and the quake was not so bad here, a few houses out of power maybe but that's about it. Didn't even realise how serious it is until I got home and turned on the TV a couple of hours ago.

smit101 · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:56

Slept in today due to being on late shifts so was oblivious to all of this until a few minutes ago, unbelievable and shocking pictures on BBC news, of 1000's of tonnes of water and debris sweeping the countryside, it's like something out of a Hollywood doomsday movie X1000! Seems miraculous there have been only 29 reported deaths.

Cosimo · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:56

Lucero said:
Seriously, these are so common for Japan it's a non issues really.

LOL This is a very significant event, enormous in scale and almost all the others pale in insignificance.

Cyclone · 11 Mar 2011 at 10:57

They are saying an earthquake has struck Hawaii now.

Craig1981 · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:01

My works PCs blocks a lot of stuff, like youtube, flash, java.

Anyone got any pics of the whirlpool?

deuse · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:01

Sky news says they can't pump water to cool the nuclear plant. I hope sky are wrong.

Liquid_Entity · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:01

Cyclone said:
They are saying an earthquake has struck Hawaii now.

Nothing so far recorded on this website:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

Cyclone · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:05

The doris on the bbc news was saying there 'were reports coming in'. I cant find anything else on this either. Hope its a false report!

Speirs · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:06

Cyclone said:
They are saying an earthquake has struck Hawaii now.

Yes. 4.5 but no damage.

Django x2 · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:07

So, lets summarise. Such a massive event that some guy who lives in Osaka barely even knew about it. Yes, ok, it's a big event, but not for Japan in this day and age. Their whole culture is built around this type of event happening. I assure you, if it happened here, most of the country would collapse. We can barely manage when a tube line gets flooded. For those in Japan (who potentially have eartquakes every other day), this is just inconvenient.

PiKe · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:08

Lucero said:
So, lets summarise. Such a massive event that some guy who lives in Osaka barely even knew about it. Yes, ok, it's a big event, but not for Japan in this day and age. Their whole culture is built around this type of event happening. I assure you, if it happened here, most of the country would collapse. We can barely manage when a tube line gets flooded. For those in Japan (who potentially have eartquakes every other day), this is just inconvenient.

You're an idiot.

Kerplunk · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:08

Lucero said:
So, lets summarise. Such a massive event that some guy who lives in Osaka barely even knew about it. Yes, ok, it's a big event, but not for Japan in this day and age. Their whole culture is built around this type of event happening. I assure you, if it happened here, most of the country would collapse. We can barely manage when a tube line gets flooded. For those in Japan (who potentially have eartquakes every other day), this is just inconvenient.

Are you being serious?

leaskovski · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:08

deuse said:
Sky news says they can't pump water to cool the nuclear plant. I hope sky are wrong.

I would guess that they shut the thing down when stuff like this happens?

Embed · 11 Mar 2011 at 11:09

When is it due to hit Indonesia?