Massive earthquake and tsunamis hit Japan

[RaverDrew]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

 

[RaverDrew]

This is looking really bad

10m high tsunami

 

[purves grundy]

Fuckin hell

 

[Barking_Mad]

Reports of wave size vary on report. The BBC video doesn't look good tho if that's a river inlet in Tokyo? (edit: possibly not Toyko)

BBC showing oil refinery on fire in the east of the country and what looks like large areas of land underwater at the coast.

 

[RaverDrew]

The footage on Sky News look horrific.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/#

 

[RaverDrew]

Oil refinery in Tokyo on fire.

 

[RaverDrew]

8.9 on the Richter scale, a mega quake, biggest in a century.

 

[Kanda]

Hawaii and West coast of US on Tsunami alert! Blimey, meant to hit about 1pm if it lasts that long.

 

[Barking_Mad]

that sweep of water inland is truly astonishing.... truly awesome.

 

[Barking_Mad]

oh dear, some really bad damage from helicopter shots and fires burning.

My thoughts are with the people of Japan

 

[Tankus]

LPG storage plant and refinery ...airport , steel works , even damage to walt disney ...very shot notice for alerts ,vertical evacuations go up rather than go to high ground , I dread to thing what the death toll is

 

[Kanda]

Tsunami alert for the whole of the pacific.. Australia, Russia, Sth America, everywhere...

 

[Barking_Mad]

Australia also on watch

 

[Barking_Mad]

The burning oil refineries are in Ichihara. It is the largest in Japan

 

[Steel Icarus]

That's appalling. I just hope the loss of life is smaller than it looks it could be.

 

[Balbi]

My god, the BBC coverage is of a helicam just following the wall of water as it eats everything

 

[invisibleplanet]

 

[Badgers]

Oh no, how horrible.
Just been looking at the different news sources.

In 1933 a magnitude 8.1 quake in the area killed more than 3,000 people

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/11/3161866.htm

 

[Tankus]

there was an awful shot of around 10 vehicle driving up to a junction . waiting to get on to the main road ...and they just get taken

Im amazed how close packed in those LPG tanks are ..once one goes its going to cook of the others

the fire is in those spherical tanks bottom right ....this is way bigger than Buncefield

 

[Barking_Mad]

I think outlying areas are going to be hammered by this. Japan is so heavily populated too.

 

[machine cat]

 

[DotCommunist]

That's appalling. I just hope the loss of life is smaller than it looks it could be.

if anyone is prepped for a quake it is the japanese. But of this size?

god help them

 

[Steel Icarus]

That oil refinery looks terrible. Makes me wonder what the fuck I'm doing living a mile from one myself.

 

[Balbi]

Oh no, how horrible.
Just been looking at the different news sources.



http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/11/3161866.htm

Japan then and Japan now are seriously different though, in an architectural sense.

 

[Tankus]

5 nuclear plants have scrammed automatically , no leakage reported


Jesus ...flames now several hundred feet in the air ..... At least they are burning rather than exploding

 

[Kanda]

Super Moon? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...Supermoon-cause-weather-chaos-Earth-week.html

Crap Daily mail link but Indonesia tsunami and Darwin cyclone were a week before the super moon event... /conspiraloon

 

[Barking_Mad]

Nearest major islands to the east are Midway Islands and then Hawaii.

 

[Echo Base]

This is amazing. Look at that helicoptor shot of the water destroying everything.
Ive had a hell of a week this week but this makes me count my blessings. My little one gets a special cuddle this weekend.

 

[Badgers]

Japan then and Japan now are seriously different though, in an architectural sense.

No doubt they are was just trying to get some measure of what a magnitude 8.9 quake would do. The pictures/videos look pretty awful but these things are often measured in loss of life and financial terms.

 

[rover07]

Super moon event.

If the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth then that could account for increased volcanic activity.

As the Earths crust is being pulled apart and stretched thinner by the gravitational forces.