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kaivalagi
11-03-11, 10:24 AM
Tell me about it, seriously big earthquake....some of those scenes are just scary!
I just got off the phone with relatives in Fiji making sure they're ready for the tsunami that's heading thier way...we're still trying to warn some of the guys in more rural areas next to the sea though, it's late in the evening there and the area will be hit around 3am....not the best timing!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709856
created a FRICKIN whirlpool!!!
hope your relatives will be safe mate, the tsunami warning has gone to new zealand, hawaii, canade, russia, US west coast and i would imagine pretty much all the pacific islands.
maviczap
11-03-11, 11:17 AM
Scariest pictures I've seen since the 9/11 attacks.:|
The images of the water crossing the fields was the most upsetting, cars & boats in the debries, who knows how many folk were caught out in their cars or houses :(
Whirlpool "Sucking everything in"..
Thats it Boy! Sex it up! Was he looking at a different whirlpool then?
Terrible situation though.
C
The images of the water crossing the fields was the most upsetting, cars & boats in the debries, who knows how many folk were caught out in their cars or houses :(
Bad isn't it. There's parts of the video where you can see cars driving about probably desperately trying to get away. Must be horrific! They're pretty much definite gonners.
Filipe M.
11-03-11, 11:34 AM
And now they have a nuclear emergency due to a fire in one of the powerplants... jeezus.
if ever you want an example on how mighty mother nature is and how insignificant we are in the scheme of things look at any news report now!
SoulKiss
11-03-11, 11:39 AM
Whirlpools, Nuclear Reactor Fires...
Next it will be Godzilla.
husky03
11-03-11, 11:40 AM
horrible pics-see the wave heading inland and the white car heading right on the road that suddenly stops with nowhere to go-unimaginable horror.
timwilky
11-03-11, 12:09 PM
Wait for the sunamis to start seriously hitting the whole Pacific rim
Jimmy2Feet
11-03-11, 12:13 PM
Whirlpools, Nuclear Reactor Fires...
Next it will be Godzilla.
AAAHHHH GODZIWA!! haha, but in all seriousness, this is awfull, although the earthquake was smaller than thailand in 2004, that tsunami look 10x more powerfull and destructive. And the worry witht he nuclear reactors!!!! well that is a real worry.
lets hope that the tsunami manages to get a lot weaker before it hits anyone else!
kaivalagi
11-03-11, 12:13 PM
Wait for the sunamis to start seriously hitting the whole Pacific rim
Tell me about it, I'm bricking for my Fijian relatives...3pm or thereabouts our time I'll know the score...I am hoping that they will be spared being on a north-east coastline and south-east from Japan but there's no knowing for sure
Jimmy2Feet
11-03-11, 12:15 PM
Tell me about it, I'm bricking for my Fijian relatives...3pm or thereabouts our time I'll know the score...I am hoping that they will be spared being on a north-east coastline and south-east from Japan but there's no knowing for sure
I really hope they are ok mate, hopefully they should be ok if they are north east.
timwilky
11-03-11, 12:22 PM
Tell me about it, I'm bricking for my Fijian relatives...3pm or thereabouts our time I'll know the score...I am hoping that they will be spared being on a north-east coastline and south-east from Japan but there's no knowing for sure
Hope they get away with it. At least the world is more aware of the dangers and can "prepare"
carnivore
11-03-11, 12:26 PM
Look on the bright side, SURF'S UP!!:reaper::cool:
SoulKiss
11-03-11, 12:29 PM
Look on the bright side, SURF'S UP!!:reaper::cool:
You think Keanu Reeves is headed to Hawaii as we speak?
He's going to be lonely without Patrick Swaze tho..
kaivalagi
11-03-11, 12:36 PM
I really hope they are ok mate, hopefully they should be ok if they are north east.
Hope they get away with it. At least the world is more aware of the dangers and can "prepare"
Thanks guys, I am sure they'll be okay, just not knowing for certain is the problem...
These guys go out into open sea in a 16ft fibreglass boat riding the crests of waves on days when I would think twice about going to sea in things a lot lot bigger, they're a hardy bunch to say the least :)
Still can't get hold of my "cousin brother" who lives at sea level though, carp mobile signal there at the best of times. No doubt he knows it's on it's way and is busy securing things in the village and getting his wife and kids safe...The "coconut wireless" will no doubt have got word to everyone by now anyway
edit: half a metre high tsunami wave at the northern pacific islands...fingers crossed it remains that low...travelling at 500mph though apparently so that much energy could mean anything!
edit2: arrival times for locations listed here: http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.2011.03.11.123017
minimorecambe
11-03-11, 01:09 PM
Hope your family are OK Kaivalagi.
My Uncle is on holiday in Barbados so hoping it stays away from there :-?
kaivalagi
11-03-11, 01:25 PM
Hope your family are OK Kaivalagi.
My Uncle is on holiday in Barbados so hoping it stays away from there :-?
Thanks, fingers crossed...
He'll be fine there, it's the other side of the Central America's, Honduras and Nicaragua in the main land are in the way ;) Lucky sod though....wish I were there!
carelesschucca
11-03-11, 01:30 PM
Don't worry about Barbados its in the Atlantic not the Pacific America will protect it...
It is worrying and I've not seen any footage... I don't know if i want to either.
minimorecambe
11-03-11, 01:31 PM
Oh, my geography isnt very good.
The footage is damn scary
looks like the mayans were right, how many terrible disasters have there been lately?? 2012 is coming closer.....
Jimmy2Feet
11-03-11, 02:18 PM
looks like the mayans were right, how many terrible disasters have there been lately?? 2012 is coming closer.....
I will put my life savings on the world not ending next year!!!
kaivalagi
11-03-11, 02:18 PM
looks like the mayans were right, how many terrible disasters have there been lately?? 2012 is coming closer.....
lol, let's all make the most of life this year then!
I'm a robot so life ending next year wont effect me as I'm moving to the moon.
kaivalagi
11-03-11, 02:21 PM
That explains a lot Reeder lol
dizzyblonde
11-03-11, 02:41 PM
Look on the bright side, SURF'S UP!!:reaper::cool:
No ta....I might get a little washed up:rolleyes:
bet ya they are making the adverts right now.
Milky Bar Kid
11-03-11, 07:38 PM
I'm a robot so life ending next year wont effect me as I'm moving to the moon.
I take it your mummy forgot to give you your medication today then??:confused:
Yeh, this is horrific. It really does make you realise how insignificant we are on the grand scheme of things.
Iansv II
11-03-11, 07:58 PM
Yeh, this is horrific. It really does make you realise how insignificant we are on the grand scheme of things.
We ? or just Reeder ? ;)
metalangel
12-03-11, 11:18 AM
http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/c/ce/Fallout3GlowingOne02.jpg
Pedrosa
12-03-11, 04:54 PM
A cubic metre of water weighs 1 ton, multiply that up by the amount of water and the speed in which the tsunami travels and it really is something you dont want to be in the way of.
husky03
12-03-11, 10:55 PM
i've been watching some of the reports from this today and feel so helpless -the looks on the kids faces who have survived will stay with me for a long time-go give your loved ones a hug tonight, you never know whats round the corner.
kaivalagi
12-03-11, 11:21 PM
Yeah, I've stopping watching the news now...it's just all too much tbh
The sobering thought is that the death toll being quoted is likely to be very unrealistic and that a considerable amount of those missing people could well be gone. There was no warning for the population when the earthquake struck and 10 minutes after that there was a wall of water coming inland sweeping up all those homes.....
My mum was chatting with a Japanese women playing online bingo of all things, the lady was scared for her children and couldn't sleep...they're still having serious tremors there all the time (see here, over 100 more quakes in the area since the big one (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html)) and there is still a real threat although you would hope the chance of 8+ on the scale is near nil...
All this makes you realise how fortunate we are living in this part of the world really where this sort of thing is unheard of
husky03
12-03-11, 11:25 PM
yeh mate-10,000 missing from one town, only the hospital is left standing-heart breaking
hardhat_harry
12-03-11, 11:31 PM
I'm with professer Brian Cox on this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9K0tI9mxc
Funny though
looks like the mayans were right, how many terrible disasters have there been lately?? 2012 is coming closer.....
kaivalagi
12-03-11, 11:38 PM
I'm with professer Brian Cox on this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9K0tI9mxc
Funny though
I love his choice words :lol:
One of the best things that's happened to TV recently I think, well needed!
The Idle Biker
12-03-11, 11:49 PM
Aww yes mate!! The guy is quality.
thedonal
12-03-11, 11:57 PM
I haven't got any words.
The loss of so many is so very, very sad.
The Idle Biker
13-03-11, 12:11 AM
Yes, so true didn't mean to trivialise the subject of the thread.
missyburd
13-03-11, 11:25 AM
saw a bit of footage yesterday and just caught up with it a bit, absolutely staggering. All those people, gone just like that :(
Friend's daughter was on a cruise ship missing off the NE coast of Japan. Just back from visiting and have seen at first hand the grief and shock.:(
Japan suffered an 8.3 shock a number of years back, and the death toll was 143,000. The one on Friday was 8.9, and had the Tsunami too. I dread to think what the final toll for this one will be.:(
metalangel
13-03-11, 12:22 PM
Still, they learned a lot from Kobe and that's made a difference.
kaivalagi
13-03-11, 02:56 PM
Very true, the actual casualties from the earthquake this time around were very low compared to before, a testament to the building regs and lessons learnt etc, that tsunami on the other hand...
Am following this nuclear business with interest. It just gets worse and worse. After FIL's awful experiences at the hands of the Japanese at the end of WW2 I have tried to avoid Japanese stuff - yes I bought a SV and a Hornet - but this shows how silly all that is - they are people, cut them they bleed, just like us - and they need help.
Von Teese
13-03-11, 08:56 PM
My thoughts are with those who are suffering as a result of this disaster :(
metalmonkey
14-03-11, 02:50 AM
I have been on been tour filming for 4 days I only saw the news for a few minutes yesterday am, the footage is shocking last I heard the nuclear reactor was leaking radation...Lets hope it works out for the best.
Specialone
14-03-11, 07:10 AM
Am following this nuclear business with interest. It just gets worse and worse. After FIL's awful experiences at the hands of the Japanese at the end of WW2 I have tried to avoid Japanese stuff - yes I bought a SV and a Hornet - but this shows how silly all that is - they are people, cut them they bleed, just like us - and they need help.
Ed, I have thought similar things tbh, not my opinion but I bet a lot of people mistreated in ww2 by the japs see this as a bit of karma?
kaivalagi
14-03-11, 08:15 AM
Oh dear....you mention about how bad some see Japan but that was over 50 years ago...our own country before that was a disgrace all over the world and I dont see how we've been dealt any reasonable karma comeback for that yet....why bring this carp up aye? There is a time and place and thread...but this aint it!
SoulKiss
14-03-11, 08:16 AM
Oh dear....you mention about how bad Japan was over 50 years ago yet our own country not long before that was a disgrace all over the world....why bring this carp up aye? There is a time and place and thread...but this aint it!
Thats why I spun off This Thread
(http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?p=2500783#post2500783)
kaivalagi
14-03-11, 08:19 AM
Thats why I spun off This Thread
(http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?p=2500783#post2500783)
Hear hear, people need to have a little more heart sometimes....or atleast have their debates away from the rest of us
Pedrosa
14-03-11, 08:44 AM
I avoided all newscasts through the weekend,but was shocked on watching breakfast time news today.The extent of damage and loss of life is truly frightening. Forget their dip in share price,those poor,poor people who have suffered the most horrendous of deaths.:smt010
Specialone
14-03-11, 11:31 AM
With hindsight, it was a bit insensitive, for that I apologise.
It wasn't my view btw, I have had discussions like this before and wondered what peoples views were.
kaivalagi
14-03-11, 12:17 PM
With hindsight, it was a bit insensitive, for that I apologise.
It wasn't my view btw, I have had discussions like this before and wondered what peoples views were.
Sorry to have picked up on it and made something of it too really, I should have let it go as it's obvious you don't have an issue and were just making that point of others....The important thing is we are all no doubt deeply sorry for what has and is going on in Japan and whatever is said it wont change that!
I've still not seen much of the footage - I don't think i want to. I can appreciate the scale of things and know that its happening - its not head in sand. I just wish that Head office would tell their people that they are alright!!
I've still not seen much of the footage - I don't think i want to. I can appreciate the scale of things and know that its happening - its not head in sand. I just wish that Head office would tell their people that they are alright!!
i know what you're saying Q, but i think you ought to watch it. it really is incredible. good and bad incredible. its almost impressive to see the power, impressive probably isnt the right word but hopefully you'll get what im scrambling for!!
Pedrosa
14-03-11, 03:16 PM
Remember that devastation in Haiti? Funny as not much of the world seems to. Could it be due to the contribution that Haiti makes to the world economy,(practically zilch) or the fact that...heavens above....the majority of the people are black, that largely their plight has been forgotten.
China,traditionally Japan's biggest foe, has been one of the first to offer massive aid. Because you know, those economical wheels cant keep turning without our Japanese friends playing their crucial role.
I have now - and now really do wish that somebody would phone form head office!
and I know what you mean Keith - the power of the water is immense
kaivalagi
14-03-11, 03:33 PM
What's worse is the local people are still feeling tremors now, it's non stop and has been since the big one....look at this list from here (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html), these are registered quakes for the Honshu area alone since midnight (43 and counting):
Scale Datetime
5.1 2011/03/14 14:51:40
5.2 2011/03/14 14:50:56
5.1 2011/03/14 14:22:39
4.7 2011/03/14 12:45:32
4.7 2011/03/14 11:34:19
4.8 2011/03/14 11:06:34
4.9 2011/03/14 10:34:52
5.1 2011/03/14 10:29:05
5.1 2011/03/14 10:28:42
4.7 2011/03/14 10:08:59
4.7 2011/03/14 09:38:47
4.9 2011/03/14 09:07:49
4.8 2011/03/14 08:58:18
5.0 2011/03/14 07:25:11
5.0 2011/03/14 07:00:14
5.3 2011/03/14 06:52:23
5.3 2011/03/14 06:46:58
5.2 2011/03/14 06:43:55
5.1 2011/03/14 06:27:29
5.4 2011/03/14 06:18:26
6.1 2011/03/14 06:12:36
4.7 2011/03/14 06:02:42
4.8 2011/03/14 05:53:27
4.7 2011/03/14 05:42:15
4.6 2011/03/14 05:27:13
4.8 2011/03/14 05:19:05
5.1 2011/03/14 04:57:56
4.7 2011/03/14 04:56:28
4.9 2011/03/14 04:45:35
4.6 2011/03/14 04:26:20
4.6 2011/03/14 03:56:38
5.2 2011/03/14 03:20:41
5.3 2011/03/14 03:18:47
5.6 2011/03/14 03:15:53
4.7 2011/03/14 02:11:32
5.1 2011/03/14 01:57:54
4.9 2011/03/14 01:40:24
4.8 2011/03/14 01:34:36
5.8 2011/03/14 01:02:40
4.6 2011/03/14 00:40:18
5.0 2011/03/14 00:22:50
4.8 2011/03/14 00:13:34
4.9 2011/03/14 00:07:52
Scary for all those folks even now :(
Owenski
14-03-11, 03:36 PM
i know what you're saying Q, but i think you ought to watch it. it really is incredible. good and bad incredible. its almost impressive to see the power, impressive probably isnt the right word but hopefully you'll get what im scrambling for!!
I know what you're trying to say and agree 100% those australian floods were eye opening as it seemed to be the first natural disaster in my adult life which made me appechiate just how fragile our existance is even in the developed world.
But this by comparrison makes the aussie floods look like a burst water main, truely jaw dropping footage.
Watching stuff like this makes me feel so sympathetic to those caught in it, I cannot begin to imagine how one must feel to turn a corner whilst trying to escape only to realise its a dead end, quite literally for someof the most unfortunates. Regardless of thier nations past I wouldnt wish that fate on anybody otherwise Im no better of a person than those who carried out the atrocoties.
SoulKiss
14-03-11, 03:44 PM
I know what you're trying to say and agree 100% those australian floods were eye opening as it seemed to be the first natural disaster in my adult life which made me appechiate just how fragile our existance is even in the developed world.
But this by comparrison makes the aussie floods look like a burst water main, truely jaw dropping footage.
Watching stuff like this makes me feel so sympathetic to those caught in it, I cannot begin to imagine how one must feel to turn a corner whilst trying to escape only to realise its a dead end, quite literally for someof the most unfortunates. Regardless of thier nations past I wouldnt wish that fate on anybody otherwise Im no better of a person than those who carried out the atrocoties.
Now people might understand my comment on the NZ Earthquake thread
As for the rest, well Meh to that.
Its very unlikely that we will destroy the Earth.
We may make it uninhabitable for large mammals, but the planet wont even notice and it will all start over again.
So, Dont Worry, Be Happy
beabert
15-03-11, 07:05 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12732335
beabert
15-03-11, 07:09 AM
i know what you're saying Q, but i think you ought to watch it. it really is incredible. good and bad incredible. its almost impressive to see the power, impressive probably isnt the right word but hopefully you'll get what im scrambling for!!
Indeed, if i was well id fly over to experience it, seeing it on tv is one thing, but with my own eyes....
missyburd
15-03-11, 09:33 AM
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/uk-japan-nuclear-iaea-idUKTRE72E1HP20110315
Really does make you wonder why they decided to build nuclear plants next to a notoriously tetchy fault line :-(
Owenski
15-03-11, 09:42 AM
Well im pretty pi55ed off today, anyone read the daily mail, Anyone seen pages 8-9?
What good does it do anyone to highlight the parrallels between this NATURAL disaster and that of a manmade one 60+years ago, the first pic is actually quite good and valid due to the monument still standing amoungst the rubble but ffs the others are just tenous at best, no difference between teh otehr images and any other quake around the world.
NO NEED!!! all for bloody column inches.
Well im pretty pi55ed off today,
anyone read the daily mail,
i've identified the problem quite quickly....
Owenski
15-03-11, 10:21 AM
I did think someone would make that connection, never missing a beat there keith :) is it too late to say its a the womans who sits next to me at work and that I was reading it for the "4month old baby found in rubble" story?
kaivalagi
15-03-11, 11:21 AM
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/uk-japan-nuclear-iaea-idUKTRE72E1HP20110315
Really does make you wonder why they decided to build nuclear plants next to a notoriously tetchy fault line :-(
Scary, especially the part about wind reaching tokyo in hours from the site....I had a feeling the Japanese authorities were down playing the whole thing, I really really feel for the people there, it's just one life threatening thing after another it seems :(
Cost effectiveness will be the reason for the plants and where they are, a blinkered money driven decision in hind sight. But who's to say if they had placed the plants on the western coastline for example that it would have been viable or made a difference anyway, sods law and all that....bit too late now anyway though aye....
What's worse is the local people are still feeling tremors now, it's non stop and has been since the big one....look at this list from here (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html), these are registered quakes for the Honshu area alone since midnight (43 and counting):
Scary for all those folks even now :(
Im looking at the website from the link you provided. I had no idea just how frequently there are aftershocks. still hitting 6 on the scale too, so not just little 2's and 3's. guess the earth takes a lot of settling down after such a big shift
kaivalagi
15-03-11, 12:42 PM
Im looking at the website from the link you provided. I had no idea just how frequently there are aftershocks. still hitting 6 on the scale too, so not just little 2's and 3's. guess the earth takes a lot of settling down after such a big shift
I keep using the word "scary" a lot but all of this really is isn't it...
No doubt all of us think that there might be 1 or 2 or several after shocks from something like this but if you look at the after shock count it's enormous from this one...
I posted further back the too where I counted more than 200 tremors for approx a day after the main biggy, so it is obviously settling if you can call 6 on the scale settled!
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