Massive earthquake and tsunamis hit Japan

[bi0boy]

live Japanese news TV in English: http://jibtv.com/program/?page=0

 

[Weller]

meanwhile Gaddafi is having a field run , what a glorious world of shite we now live in - Im off to bed

 

[Lock&Light]

............what a glorious world of shite we now live in

It has ever been thus.

 

[twentythreedom]

I bet Gaddafi is thanking allah right now..

 

[twentythreedom]

death toll 2,500 (officials saying 10,000)

17,000 missing... no doubt these figures only scratch the surface

 

[miss minnie]

@newscientist on Twitter, some good news at last

newscientist New Scientist
RT @rowhoop: Amazing: 9,700 missing people from Minamisanriku are safe: evacuated before the tsunami http://s.nikkei.com/iiC9vj (Jpnese)
11 minutes ago

 

[xes]

@newscientist on Twitter, some good news at last

Awesome! I hope the other large figures of missing people turn out the same way!

 

[Steel Icarus]

@newscientist on Twitter, some good news at last

If that's accurate, it's tremendously heartening and quite amazing.

 

[editor]

I can't imagine what it must have been like to watch your entire village being swept away as happens in this video:
http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=showcustomobject&postId=5782038&item=0

 

[trashpony]

@newscientist on Twitter, some good news at last

They've revised that down to 2,000 now

 

[miss minnie]

They've revised that down to 2,000 now

Aye, saw that

Still... *fingers crossed*

 

[Bucksta]

Another earthquake just hit. Apparently the epicentre was in Shizuoka http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/ - felt our 10th floor apartment in Osaka shaking.

 

[girasol]

Another earthquake just hit. Apparently the epicentre was in Shizuoka http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/ - felt our 10th floor apartment in Osaka shaking.

Hope it's not a big one, and no more tsunamis!!!!!!!!!!! (e2a: it says magnitude 2.9, so doesn't sound too bad)

 

[Barking_Mad]

magnitude 6.0, no tsunami.

 

[xes]

equake puts it at 6.1 eastern Honshu.

 

[girasol]

Where do you see that? I'm getting this from equake

22:56 JST 15 Mar 2011 35.4N 138.7E very shallow 2.7 Yamanashi-ken Tobu-Fujigoko

... oh, I clicked the 'seismic intensity' button and that gives 6+

 

[invisibleplanet]

magnitude 6.0, no tsunami.

I keep thinking about the volcano Shinmoe Dake.
There's a 1 million reservoir of lava directly underneath, and a connected 7 million lava chamber, approx. 10 km to the north west (closest to the Philippine Sea Plate).

 

[xes]

I have equake installed for firefox, it rumbles in all earthquakes above M2.

the usgs website (which equakes gets its info from I think) should have a better idea of what's what..

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php

top of the list

and the innitial 8.9 has been upgraded to a 9.

 

[Barking_Mad]

you can follow on twitter for earthquake updates: @NewEarthquake

 

[stuff_it]

I keep thinking about the volcano Shinmoe Dake.
There's a 1 million reservoir of lava directly underneath, and a connected 7 million lava chamber, approx. 10 km to the north west (closest to the Philippine Sea Plate).

1 million whats? lava points?

This http://www.glgarcs.net is definitely an informative site, even if you can't link to pictures....

 

[Barking_Mad]

On 13 March, two days after the 2011 Sendai Earthquake, the volcano once again erupted.[6][7] The eruption forced the evacuation of several hundred residents.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinmoedake

 

[invisibleplanet]

1 million whats? lava points?

This http://www.glgarcs.net is definitely an informative site, even if you can't link to pictures....

Oops. Around 7-8 million cubic metres of magma accumulated beneath the peak, forcing the lava dome, during the Jan/Feb eruption.

 

[invisibleplanet]

http://www.glgarcs.net is definitely an informative site,.

That site (gigarcs.net) is one of my favourites for earth-sci

 

[xes]

Another 6 (and the 6.1 was upgraded to a 6.2)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

@newscientist on Twitter, some good news at last

I've not seen any news today but how did they manage to evacuate that many people with so little time?

 

[invisibleplanet]

This thread makes me weep

((Japanese people))

 

[Shevek]

There was a piece in the Indie today saying this was basically the death knell of the Japanese economy because they are already carrying debts of 200% of GDP and now this will finish them off or at least kill off any vague shoots of recovery - which they have been trying to nurture for the last 20 years.

I think the Japanese are quite inventive so maybe this will spur them on to scale up renewables like Elbows said.

 

[ska invita]

I know Im stating the obvious here but the shock and tragedy of the earthquake, compounded by the devastation of the tsunami, followed by endless aftershocks, and now followed by nuclear fallout near one of the most densely populated areas on earth - i feel scared and upset just thinking about it, i cant begin to imagine what must be going through peoples minds. Poor poor people.

Seeing japanese peoples stoical attitude to this (though the amount of real people on the media seems to be at a minimum), and the bravery faced by unarmed protesters in north africa, arabia etc has been a really moving experience this year.

But already they are moving on to the next line of PR defence. The future of nuclear energy around the globe is now considered to be under increased threat, so we can look forward to lots more talk along the lines of:

I saw today that while some european countries are putting their nuclear plans on hold, Poland announced today there is no going back and they're moving full speed ahead, spouting shite like 'there's no earthquakes here' etc. It will be interesting to see what J Lovelock's got to say about this

 

[yardbird]

I would just like to say this

We discuss, debate and theorise about the terrible things that are happening in Japan.
I am distressed and concerned - tearfull even - about what is happening to beautiful, fascinating people.
I have had to put up with casual, uncaring and even vengeful remarks by people who as friends, shocked me beyond belief.

I wish those trying to live through this nightmare all my love - and that's fuck all help. I'm helpless, useless and that's all I can offer.

If I had a god I could pray to, I would.

 

[Dr Jon]

We discuss, debate and theorise about the terrible things that are happening in Japan.
I am distressed and concerned - tearfull even - about what is happening to beautiful, fascinating people.
I have had to put up with casual, uncaring and even vengeful remarks by people who as friends, shocked me beyond belief.

I wish those trying to live through this nightmare all my love - and that's fuck all help. I'm helpless, useless and that's all I can offer.

If I had a god I could pray to, I would.

this ^