Massive earthquake and tsunamis hit Japan

[Open Sauce]

That's not a picture of the nuclear plant

Good, because that didn't look like hydrogen.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

All of the immediate family are ok though not all have been able to make it home yet. We were a bit worried about some relative very close to the center of the quake but we have just found out they are ok. We don't know how bad things were for them yet as nobody can speak to them, they just sent an email saying they were all alive. Yokatta.
Phones and power are still out.

 

[weepiper]

oh good news AS

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

All of the immediate family are ok though not all have been able to make it home yet. We were a bit worried about some relative very close to the center of the quake but we have just found out they are ok. We don't know how bad things were for them yet as nobody can speak to them, they just sent an email saying they were all alive. Yokatta.
Phones and power are still out.

What a relief for you both. My first thought this morning when I switched on was wondering how your lot were

 

[Barking_Mad]

Oh dear.

Japanese TV is reporting that about 10,000 people are missing in the town of Minamisanrikucho in Miyagi prefecture.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

All of the immediate family are ok though not all have been able to make it home yet. We were a bit worried about some relative very close to the center of the quake but we have just found out they are ok. We don't know how bad things were for them yet as nobody can speak to them, they just sent an email saying they were all alive. Yokatta.
Phones and power are still out.

Oh that is good news, hope they all stay safe.

 

[Barking_Mad]

another aftershock has hit - 6.0 apparently.

 

[stethoscope]

Another strong aftershock

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

There's been absolutely dozens of aftershocks

 

[laptop]

another aftershock has hit - 6.0 apparently.

That'd be a respectable-sized earthquake all by itself

 

[Voley]

Jesus, 6.0 and that's just an aftershock.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That'd be a respectable-sized earthquake all by itself

Yep, there's been plenty well over 6. I think there was a 7 yesterday

 

[peterkro]

I think the latest one may well be a separate quake and not an aftershock.

(given all this seismic activity is related it's difficult to tell but it appears the epicenter is not the same)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You can see them here (although this is the past week)

http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/

another one

http://maplarge.com/Japan-Earthquake

there's loads of them

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

List

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30.html

 

[Barking_Mad]

No tsunami form latest 3 aftershocks.

Italian TV apparently reporting 10,000 missing in Mayagi.

 

[claphamboy]

List

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30.html

Bloody hell

 

[quimcunx]

List

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30.html

I thought they'd missed the biggest one off there. But then I realised there had been so many I was just going to have to scroll down a long way.

Hope everyone is soon accounted for for AS, gaijingirl and anyone else with friends or relatives there.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I thought they'd missed the biggest one off there. But then I realised there had been so many I was just going to have to scroll down a long way.

Hope everyone is soon accounted for for AS, gaijingirl and anyone else with friends or relatives there.

and if you go further down to the 9th and 10th March, you'll see there were quite a few before the big one

 

[quimcunx]

I did and I did.

 

[laptop]

Hell... a significant earthquake under the sea every 5 or 10 minutes

So they're not causing tsunamis... but what are the odds on another 8+?

 

[Barking_Mad]

great graphic of tsunami waves spreading round the globe

[video]http://www.youtube.com/user/NOAAPMEL?feature=mhum#p/c/3/PBZGH3yieLc[/video]

 

[magneze]

The overhead before & after pics of Minamisanrikucho are unbelievable. The whole town is just washed away.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This site's quite good but it only shows the latest and they sometimes take a while to appear. The last 4 tremors are currently showing. It not only shows earthquakes, but tsunamis, landslides, explosions, nuclear incidents, plane crashes, environmental disasters, outbreaks of diseases etc.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=asia&lang=eng

 

[quimcunx]

You know all the cheery sites, don't you, minnie?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You know all the cheery sites, don't you, minnie?

Probably more an interest from when I used to work at the Civil Contingencies Secretariat

A plane in America crashed into a deer yesterday according to that website. There's been an outbreak of chickpox somewhere and other outbreaks of meningitis and bird flu elsewhere. Very interesting you know

 

[bi0boy]

Amazing how many buildings seemed to have stayed up after this massive quake, the vast majority only succumbing to the tsunami.

A testament to Japanese engineering and construction regulation.

I'm sure San Francisco would come of rather worse after such a quake, we've had a few big ones over the last few years and they're overdue one.

 

[laptop]

A plane in America crashed into a deer yesterday

Surely a reindeer?

Right. Serious thread. Sorry.

No news of reactor is good news?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Surely a reindeer?

Right. Serious thread. Sorry.

No news of reactor is good news?

Three people exposed to radiation apparently.

 

[claphamboy]

The overhead before & after pics of Minamisanrikucho are unbelievable. The whole town is just washed away.

Just seen those, shocking.