Massive earthquake and tsunamis hit Japan

[xes]

aah, sorry, was (slightly miss)quoting the thingy i linked to. Still, quite a ferrocious mountain kicking off by the looks of things.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

More stupid questions on BBC news, speaking to a local resident

BBC: Have you ever felt anything like that before

Local Resident: Actually yes, I'm quite often in earthquakes of this magnitude and I have baths every day so a little tsunami didn't bother me in the slightest

BBC: Have there been many aftershocks?

Local Resident: Not that I'm aware of, but I don't have access to the internet or news to look

 

[Miss Caphat]

More stupid questions on BBC news, speaking to a local resident

BBC: Have you ever felt anything like that before

Local Resident: Actually yes, I'm quote often in earthquakes of this magnitude and I have baths every day so a little tsunami didn't bother me in the slightest

BBC: Have there been many aftershocks?

Local Resident: Not that I'm aware of, but I don't have access to the internet or news to look

wtf? that person sounds like a real life troll.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

wtf? that person sounds like a real life troll.

Sorry, that's me mucking about with the local resident response. That's how I'd like to respond to the reporter asking stupid questions

 

[Mr.Bishie]

More pics - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan_earthquake_aftermath.html

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

More pics - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan_earthquake_aftermath.html

A lot of new ones there. Very sad

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Very difficult viewing.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Very difficult viewing.

but some heartening ones as well. The girl crying had heard her mother was alive.

The father (or brother) with young boy standing looking at the destruction is like something from the end of a disaster film.

No. 34 is a bit... I'm not sure if that's a body there or a dummy or something that just looks like a body

No. 4 is just sad. They look like a load of dejected refugees wandering with nowhere to go and if that wasn't enough, it looks like it's shit weather

They're all horribly sad

Oh, Sky News - just pulling some elderly survivors from a car who had been trapped for 20 hours

 

[Mr.Bishie]

AlJazeera's @wayne_hay reports from Minami Sanriku, where 10,000 people are missing.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

AlJazeera's @wayne_hay reports from Minami Sanriku, where 10,000 people are missing.

Wasn't that reported yesterday or is that somewhere else? Getting confused with all these unfamiliar place names

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Wasn't that reported yesterday or is that somewhere else? Getting confused with all these unfamiliar place names

Looking at his tweet, it was 10 hours ago - sorry for the confusion. Strange that AJE just tweeted it.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Sorry, that's me mucking about with the local resident response. That's how I'd like to respond to the reporter asking stupid questions

oh, I see.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

oh, I see.

Was sort of a response to Corax's post at No. 490

Originally Posted by Radio 4

Quote Originally Posted by Reporter in Japan
Oh... there's another aftershock.

Quote Originally Posted by Presenter
Another aftershock right now? Can you describe what that feels like?

Quote Originally Posted by Reporter in Japan
There's some shaking.


Well yes...

 

[Barking_Mad]

Excellent NYT sliding graphic for before and after.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?hp

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Same as the one posted earlier isn't it, except it slides slower.

Still great the way it's done though

Think I prefer this one though

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just been reading about this breakwater that was only completed in 2009 at huge cost. Not sure how much more damage the area would have sustained had the breakwater not been there, but it seems like a lot of money to have spent on something that's not really stopped this particular tsunami, although I'm guessing it's worked for smaller tsunamis

http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Deepest-Breakwater/BLOG/2699333/7691.html

 

[Open Sauce]

Just been reading about this breakwater that was only completed in 2009 at huge cost. Not sure how much more damage the area would have sustained had the breakwater not been there, but it seems like a lot of money to have spent on something that's not really stopped this particular tsunami, although I'm guessing it's worked for smaller tsunamis

http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Deepest-Breakwater/BLOG/2699333/7691.html

Very little could probably stop that particular tsunami

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-japan-quake-breakwater-20110314,0,4883014.story

 

[Sunray]

Cliffs like you get in Cornwall can take it, much less, like anything that's constructed has the potential to be blown away like matches in a hurricane (cyclone).

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Sad Ch4 video on this link on Minamisanriku

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/japan-tsunami-minamisanriku-a-fishing-port-that-vanished-/2011/03/13/ABulj1T_blog.html

 

[peterkro]

There was a 6.2 aftershock 118k offshore, the reports appear to come from naval vessels,by the look of the spokesman who appeared scared shitless on NHK there is a lot of confusion.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I saw a video report much earlier in the day where the reporters were being ushered away. Turned out the small tsunami happened somewhere further along the coast

Ah, it's this one. Apparently it happens a lot

http://www.channel4.com/news/inside-minamisanriku-some-kind-of-armageddon

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Plant operator injured apparently. Poor, poor Japan, this is such a fucking nightmare.

2000 bodies discovered (I think Minamisamruku)

 

[Steel Icarus]

3 metre tsunami on the way? Wtf?

ETA False alarm.

 

[DJ Squelch]

blimey, just shows how high the water must of been.

 

[editor]

blimey, just shows how high the water must of been.

That is astonishing.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Some amazing photos in the Guaridan's latest series

 

[Barking_Mad]

That is astonishing.

Im not sure what is more astonishing, that the boat was thrown so high up, that it landed on the building and stayed there, or that the building hasn't fallen down!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That is astonishing.

Found this one yesterday. Huge cargo tanker

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Godzilla is to blame

 

[TitanSound]

New footage of when the Tsunami struck. It always amazes/terrifies me to see stuff like this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12725646