Massive earthquake and tsunamis hit Japan

[100% masahiko]

Don't think I ever saw a queue at a bus stop in China

Depends where you I are I guess.
I didn't wander to the outskirts...

 

[Barking_Mad]

Reuters:

NHK reports from people in the evacuation zone in Myagi Prefecture that they are not receiving supplies, and are being told no buses can come to evacuate and that they feel they are being left to die.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Looks like that 10,000 death toll is extremely conservative

Dealing with the dead has become a pressing problem in Ishinomaki. The town's vice-mayor, Etsuro Kitamura, estimates that 10,000 out of a population of 160,000 may have died in the tsunami that pulverized the Japanese coast on Friday.

Although cremations are traditional, this is not an option given the shortage of fuel and the lack of facilities. "Our city has only one crematorium, which can handle perhaps 18 bodies a day," Kitamura said. "If there are 10,000 dead, it will take 500 days to burn them all.

"Close to 20,000 people lived in coastal communities that were far from high ground," Kitamura said. "There was nowhere for them to flee. We don't know for sure that they are dead and we hope they escaped, but the chances are slim. They are probably buried or washed out to sea."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/15/japan-tsunami-petrol-food-bodies

 

[xes]

Brittish rescue team "foiled by red tape"

This shit makes me mad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12756366

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Brittish rescue team "foiled by red tape"

This shit makes me mad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12756366

Read somewhere last night that the British Embassy weren't helping British who wanted to leave the country either

 

[Dr Jon]

Brittish rescue team "foiled by red tape"

This shit makes me mad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12756366

Useless pen-pushing twats

 

[Barking_Mad]

Guardian

The latest estimates from Japan's National Police Agency puts the tally of dead and missing at 12,000, with the death toll to date above 4,000.

 

[DJ Squelch]

is it just me or does the Japanese Emperor look like he has a badly photoshopped head, even in the video it looks far too big.*

*sorry, serious thread.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Guardian

Don't really know why they bother coming out with these figures when it's obvious it's going to be much higher

 

[extra dry]

Is anyone noticing strange weather patterns?

In Thailand now it should be warm and getting humid...only it is cool, even cold, colder than there winter...I think it could be due the Japanese Quake, combined with the New Zealand event and the South American Quake. The graphic the bbc has shows a massive 'hole' in the ocean, this is wave movement, but what is a 'wave'; sea water, water right ok.
Not just any water, the entire total covering japans undersea continental shelf...est. 1-4 million gallons of liquid...someone who knows more about the undersea geography of that area may have a much more accurate figure measurement.
The main point is this water was push/pulled out of the area and the cold northern arctic water was pulled/sucked into the vacuum, cold water being denser than warmer water is heavier and would move with speed at these massive volumes.

What evidence of this lies in a few amazing fossils, two fish one is at the moment of striking the smaller fish, and they both died in an instant, so ether a shock wave from an earthquake or volcano erupting, but also a huge temperature shift, that is happening now, 2011.

Japan as a land mass shifted 4 degrees, four degrees not much on a small piece of paper or trig set, but on a line say, 3000 km long..four degrees is a lot of movement this, huge island and ocean shelf, is also redirecting currents of warmer and colder sea water.

Second point the displacement of deep water, mainly the water suspended near the sea bed, usually full of toxic waste, heavy metals, carbon dioxide, mercury, arsenic, not to mention the junk on the sea floor, all of it would have shifted around and broken up even more.

Also the plankton the food source to a massive number of marine animals, may now be blow all over the sea and not in the usual feeding grounds at the right time of year, breeding/rearing chicks, also weather changes effect the chick survival rate..this event maybe the beginning of an evolutionary bump...events that just alter the normal run of the oceans, winds, food of the entire region. But leave the majority of the planet ok, till the next one.

 

[Miss Caphat]

oh, are you a scientist?

sorry, just getting irritated by all this talk of "unusual" events lately.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

fuck fuck fuck i can't watch the footage... horrific

 

[Barking_Mad]

BBC

About 850,000 households in the north are still without electricity in near-freezing weather, Tohuku Electric Power Co has said, and the government says at least 1.5 million households lack running water. Heavy snow is also affecting parts of the north-east and hampering rescue efforts.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Links please, B_M!

apols, corrected.

 

[Barking_Mad]

NHK World

14 hospital patients die at emergency shelter

Fukushima Prefecture is looking into the deaths of 14 hospital patients at an emergency shelter where they had evacuated.

Prefectural officials say 128 hospital patients evacuated on Monday to a high school in Iwaki city. Two of them reportedly died en route on a bus, and 12 others died shortly after arriving at the shelter.

Most of the patients were elderly, and some bedridden. They were asked to stay at the shelter before being moved to another hospital.

The high school principal says there were 4 medical staffers at the shelter, but medical equipment has been in short supply. The patients were laid on a blanket on a tatami mat, with heaters placed nearby.

 

[Barking_Mad]

 

[Barking_Mad]

 

[Barking_Mad]

Save The Children Website for Donations

 

[editor]

Save The Children Website for Donations

Done. I wish they'd let people pay with Paypal though.

 

[Barking_Mad]

From Kyodo

Many relief supplies offered by food makers and other firms to areas struck by last week's devastating earthquake in northeastern and eastern Japan have not yet been delivered, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.

The situation was attributable to confusion in commodity distribution and difficulties in making arrangements between the government and quake-hit areas, the sources said.

Nissin Food Products Co. said Sunday it will supply 1 million cup noodles to quake-hit areas but has been able to send only 600,000 so far. Its rival Acecook Co. also decided Monday to supply 120,000 cup noodles, but has not been able to send any yet.

Wacoal Holdings Corp. has also decided to supply about 30,000 items of underwear, while the Ezaki Glico Co. group offered powdered milk and retort pouch foods, but they are still waiting for the government's instructions to actually ship them.

Relief supplies are sent by the government through arrangements with the Self-Defense Forces and others after checking lists for such supplies and demand from quake-hit areas.

Executives at manufacturers complained about the government's sloppy responses to offers of their firms' relief supplies to the quake-hit areas.

 

[miss minnie]

W7VOA Steve Herman
I'm no longer going to tweet aftershocks below M5.0 -- they've just become too frequent.
1 minute ago

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Japan Quake Map

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Can someone answer this question please

I notice that the Japanese do have Chinooks.

There's lots of towns/villages that haven't been reached yet as they're difficult to get to. Why have they not used their Chinooks to get rescue teams/food and water in etc.?

 

[100% masahiko]

Can someone answer this question please

I notice that the Japanese do have Chinooks.

There's lots of towns/villages that haven't been reached yet as they're difficult to get to. Why have they not used their Chinooks to get rescue teams/food and water in etc.?

Probably limited resources (they were cooling the plant yesterday remember?)

The Americans should be doing better tbh.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Probably limited resources (they were cooling the plant yesterday remember?)

The Americans should be doing better tbh.

Yeah, I realise that, but the Chinooks weren't being used from day 1 and it's now on day 6. Haven't the Americans got any they can let them use or are they still keeping their distance out to sea?

 

[Barking_Mad]

Japan from above:

http://uk.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=UKRTR2JVU5#a=1

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yesterday my daughter put on the Ponyo DVD (Japanese cartoon), I hadn't really thought about it but it's all about a Tsunami hitting a quiet northern region. If course it's caused by magic and is a fairly fairy tale type of flood. Fairly strange watch in these recent events though.

 

[frogwoman]

What's the situation like where you're living mate?

 

[fen_boy]

Yesterday my daughter put on the Ponyo DVD (Japanese cartoon), I hadn't really thought about it but it's all about a Tsunami hitting a quiet northern region. If course it's caused by magic and is a fairly fairy tale type of flood. Fairly strange watch in these recent events though.

The way the water and debris moved across the land in the real life tsunami really reminded me of a Miyazaki animation.

 

[TruXta]

Overall, I think it's worrying how the nuclear disaster is overshadowing what's looking increasingly like a massive humanitarian disaster. There's 500000+ people living in temporary shelters! They're short on fuel, water, energy, food and other basics. It's understandable that the threat of a nuclear catastrophe dominates the media, but it still doesn't make it right.

No offense to people on here keeping up to date, it's just that I feel that the priority shouldn't be the reactors, it should be the displaced, homeless, injured half a million people.

 

[frogwoman]

yeah. in otsuchi 12k people are missing out of 17000. And the snow is making the rescue efforts v difficult