Holy Holy Shit.
 

There has been a maximum intensity earthquake on the eastern coast of Japan.

Damage is huge and there is an all-Pacific tsunami warning.

I saw that. It hit east of Sendai and Tagajo where I used to live. :(

I think I heard that only one life was lost which seems almost like a miracle with as much damage as happened.

The toll will be in the thousands DB.

The videos are impressive.

Death toll is now in the "hundreds" in Japan, and expected to rise.

Hawaii took a small hit, and California felt it also.

Reports are for damage, not casualties.

To make matters even worse is the radiation now seeping from the nuclear power plant. I hope they aren't facing another Chernoybl. With the aftershocks that will undoubtedly follow, this is a fragile situation that could easily turn into a disaster of catastrophic proportion.

For everything and everyone within 500 miles of the quake line, it is a disaster of catastrophic proportions.

NBC now reports that there are 2 nuclear power plants in trouble. They also reported that the power of the quake has actually moved the entire country of Japan 8 feet to the east. That is really difficult to comprehend just how much force that quake had.

I spent 3 yrs at Misawa AB, Japan and that area has frequent earthquakes. The larges that we had while I was there was a little over a 7.0.

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/phot...F-9876P-001.jpg

That is amazing.

I'm also amazed at how calm and controlled the Japanese seem to be in dealing with this terrible disaster. Prayers sure go out to all the people hurt or lost because of this earthquake and the tsunami.

I don't believe there is another country/culture who's people and authorities are as knowledgeable, well equipped or prepared. If this is a warning of things to come, a lot of us are in deep do-do. :yikes:




Side note:
Just got notice of 7.0 in Burma (Myanmar :rolleyes2 )
[which is only 1% of what Japan had]

It was up near China, so they can share the pain.

http://satwcomic.com/don-t-panic

The Brits, just pre-WWII created this one.

I rather prefer this one.

Not a DO-DO tsunami!

Hip boots are going to sell out fast. :D

This from the USGS.

The seabed near the epicentre of the massive earthquake that rocked Japan last month was shifted 24 metres by the tremor, the country's coastguard said.

Sensors found that one part of the ocean floor had been stretched to a point 24 metres east-southeast of its position before the 9.0-magnitude undersea quake, which triggered a massive tsunami that engulfed large areas of Japan's north-east coast.

The undersea movement is more than four times bigger than any observed on land, where part of the Oshika peninsula in Miyagi prefecture was found to have shifted 5.3 metres.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said in March that the force of the quake moved Honshu - Japan's main island - by 2.4 metres.

- AFP

7.1 "aftershock" i heard
man, japan is gonna be messed up for a few generations, eh? what a shame

Is it going to stop for those people? :wish:

Yesterday marked one month after a record making quake started the recent session of activity. The continuing after-shocks have been of the magnitude that constitutes major quakes elsewhere, taking many lives and bringing down large portions of towns and cities. During the night I got an alert of another 7.1 in Onoyasashi and just now for a magnitude 6.4 in Ichinomiya. The good news is we are witness to and learning from some extraordinary events. The bad news is those poor people are participants in these events. The good does not out-weigh the bad. :(

And the Fukushima nuclear disaster is now a scale 7: as bad as Chernobyl.

Taking into account the "way down the track" consequences.

Another 7+ this morning off Japan.