Topic: Quake/Tsunami hit Japan

[ShyGuy]

8.9, pretty big.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake

I hope everyone at Nintendo is okay.

The NWR correspondents too!

[NWR_pap64]

I sent messages to the staff members in Japan. Still waiting for their response.

[SupaKirb]

Words can not explain my feelings toward what has happened in Japan. I have never been there, but I do watch Japanese youtubers. Amazing and lovely people. I am thankful to them for showing me how beautiful the culture in Japan is. I will be praying for them most definitely. It just sucks feeling so powerless when there are people out there need your help. (Looking to donate to relief efforts as soon as I can.)

God Bless You Japan.

[Kytim89]

There seems to be a lot of strange weather phenomina going on here lately and especially a lot of eathquakes. Of course these things have went on as normal, but so many things in such proxitmaty to each other seems coincidental to me.

[Silenced]

I've seen some photos of it. I hope everyone there is alright, it looks pretty damn deadly

[Toruresu]

My prayers to Japan and to the NWR Correspondents.

Possible tsunami to hit hawaii in the next hour or so, may He have mercy.

[Stogi]

I've been watching this for quite sometime and it looks devastating. I hope looks are deceiving.

[MegaByte]

All of our Japan crew has checked in, and thankfully, they are safe.

[Toruresu]

That is great to hear! Thank you!

[apdude]

The worst I've experienced was a 6.9 and this was an 8.9 which as I understand it is 100X bigger.  I can't even immagine that.
 
Edit: It's actually 1000x bigger.

[Kytim89]

It appears to me that the ring of fire fault line in the pacific is becoming active. We just had an earthquake in New Zealand and Chile. Let's also not forget the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire

[KisakiProject]

Glad all the NWR people are okay.  I'm trying to get a hold of all my friends and make sure they are okay.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I've just seen pictures
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html

and video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kc-KvQ-XUQ

of what happened in Japan. That's horrible, but then I heard about the possible/potential radioactive leak at one of the Nuclear plants, and that just made a very bad situation 1000x worse.

FoxNews is confirming a leak, other sources are saying there is no leak.
1 source claims radio active mist was released to relieve pressure, others say that alternate power sources have been activated to aid in cooling of the plants.
Another source says that the U.S. is sending coolant to Japan to avoid a nuclear incident of any kind, other sources say that coolant is only water and that the alternate energy sources have already restored power to those pumps.

So regardless of what is happening out there, I hope everyone is OK and takes all the precautionary measures to stay that way.

[Stogi]

Wow those pictures look horrific!

I've talked to my ex who has family in the southern end of the country and she said the quake didn't affect them significantly. Her mother though, was in Tokyo visiting a friend and she can't get ahold of her . I hope she is ok. I can't imagine losing a family member to a disaster.

[MegaByte]

I think most of the game developers were out of harms way from this one, but there's a chronicle of their tweets here.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Also according to those pictures, Japan has paper streets.

I knew they had paper walls in their old style traditional housing, but paper streets seems a little unsafe. It's also kinda weird how that one street "tore" right along the center dividing line, as if that was where it was scored liked ripping lined paper out of a book.

[TJ Spyke]

FoxNews is confirming a leak.

That pretty much confirms that there isn't a leak.

Luckily the death toll has been really low so far (151 confirmed deaths), although a lot of damage has been done. CNN was showing a video where cars were being swept along like little toys.

[Stogi]

Talked with my friend in Hawaii and he was thinking about surfing the tsnunami (not really). Though he heard that some people were, idiotically, going to try. I'm not a scientist, but I'm pretty sure surfing a wall of water going 500 mph isn't possible.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Talked with my friend in Hawaii and he was thinking about surfing the tsnunami (not really). Though he heard that some people were, idiotically, going to try.

Some people always do..... and we'll be able to watch them on Youtube doing it. Maybe even LiveStream if we're lucky.

[apdude]

Talked with my friend in Hawaii and he was thinking about surfing the tsnunami (not really). Though he heard that some people were, idiotically, going to try. I'm not a scientist, but I'm pretty sure surfing a wall of water going 500 mph isn't possible.

They slow down closer to land, but I don't think tsunami waves break so I'm pretty sure you can't ride them.

[Kytim89]

Here are a few articles I found on the Japanese tsunami:
 
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/has-the-tsunami-in-japan-destroyed-the-japanese-economy
 
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/is-the-magnitude-8-9-earthquake-in-japan-a-sign-that-the-ring-of-fire-is-coming-to-life

[oohhboy]

One of he nuclear reactor buildings has lost it's roof. Meltdown improbable, most likely due to a hydrogen or steam explosion. Reactor vessel expected to be intact and radiation release minimal.

[MegaByte]

The International Atomic Energy Agency is using Facebook to post updates because their servers couldn't handle it. (Plant updates)

[RagnaBlade]

News says it was so bad it actually shifted Japan over 8 feet and altered the tilt of the Earth's axis. Crazy stuff. It was 1,000 times more potent than the quake which hit Haiti. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html

[ShyGuy]

holy crap. Time to start redrawing the maps. With the axis shift, are we going to have longer days?