Japan hit by 8.9 earthquake

[kaivalagi]

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, 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

Originally Posted by keithd

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]

Originally Posted by Owenski

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

Originally Posted by Soulkiss

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12732335

Originally Posted by keithd

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....

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/0...72E1HP20110315

Really does make you wonder why they decided to build nuclear plants next to a notoriously tetchy fault line

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.

Originally Posted by Owenski

Well im pretty pi55ed off today,

Originally Posted by Owenski

anyone read the daily mail,

i've identified the problem quite quickly....

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]

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/0...72E1HP20110315

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....