Tsunami hits north-eastern Japan after massive quake

**jimbo** · 11th March 2011 21:56

speaking of,.. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**Tron** · 11th March 2011 21:57

Makes you wonder how earthquake proof your apartment building is...

**not bkk** · 11th March 2011 21:58

Originally Posted by Tron

Makes you wonder how earthquake proof your apartment building is...

It isn't.

**you_me_no_savy_talk_talk** · 11th March 2011 23:17

Originally Posted by Enclavean

I hope Japan doesnt stop making animes.

i don't know. it has been doing quite well since WW2...

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oh, sorry... not enemies... carry on

**kiwiling** · 12th March 2011 04:08

Originally Posted by Thaitanium

Tsunami Alert for New Zealand

Yep...the waves got here all right...only 40 cm though...but heaps of current in the narrow coastal inlets

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Japanese tsunami sweeps across ocean to smash 35 boats in California

Japanese tsunami sweeps across ocean to smash 35 boats in California

**Farangrakthai** · 12th March 2011 04:16

still problems with the nuke reactor:

BBC News - Japan earthquake

2131: Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan has just announced that residents living within 10km (6.2 miles) of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear station must evacuate their homes, according to the Kyodo news agency. Engineers are trying to fix the cooling system of one of the plant's reactors, which was damaged by the earthquake. The authorities had earlier told some 3,000 residents living within 3km (1.9 miles) to leave.

2132: The Tokyo Electric Power Company has said radiation may already have been released at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant.

2149: The Kyodo news agency is now citing a safety panel as saying that the radiation level inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant is 1,000 times higher than normal.

2153: The pressure inside one of the six Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant has built up because the cooling system was damaged by the earthquake. The heat produced by the nuclear reaction inside the core still needs to be dissipated even after a shutdown. If the outage in the cooling system persists, eventually radiation could leak out into the environment, and, in the worst case, could cause a reactor meltdown, experts say.

**not bkk** · 12th March 2011 05:13

Looking at the variety of pics and video, monitoring Japanese TV this morn.......what a mess. They will bounce back quickly.

**Robin Hood** · 12th March 2011 05:25

A friend and fellow Tefler went home yesterday to America via Japan. He was landing as the quake hit...He's OK...though...

**Slim Chance** · 12th March 2011 05:59

Originally Posted by Tron

Makes you wonder how earthquake proof your apartment building is...

Originally Posted by centermid7

If such an event were ever to stike BKK/Thailand there is not enough syrup in all the world for all the "pancakin'" that would occur

Certainly no consideration towards earthquake construction, not much is reenforced or tensioned, very little is tied in along the horzional axis, even less on the vertical, and probably within seconds all this shitty concrete would turn to dust

Yeah but BKK isn't in an area of great earthquake activity compared to Japan. The Japanese have invested a lot of resources to alleviate the amount of deaths and damage caused by earthquakes. It seems to have paid off - just about anywhere else in the world it would be flat cities and 6/7 figure casualties.

The nuclear power stations are a bit of a worry tho'

It started out with the Govt assuring everyone there were no problems, then a bit of a problem, then evacuation, then....???!!!! A bit like 3 mile, chernobyl - who knows how bad it reallly is. But then there's probably not a lot to be gained by broadcasting "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES"

**tomcat** · 12th March 2011 07:16

...SD escaped being stranded in Japan by a very few hours: Haneda and Narita both closed shortly after his plane took off...

**Tron** · 12th March 2011 08:00

My wife was just telling me that next weekend the moon will be closer to the earth. She said that scientists are warning that this might cause more natural disasters. They (the scientists) made references to past disasters when the moon was closer to earth. Not sure if there is any validity to these claims. I'll have to check it out when I have time later today.

**kiwiling** · 12th March 2011 08:18

Originally Posted by Tron

She said that scientists are warning that this might cause more natural disasters.

A guy predicted the Christchurch earthquake on the same basis...but apparently these events do come in clusters

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Originally Posted by Slim Chance

The nuclear power stations are a bit of a worry tho' It started out with the Govt assuring everyone there were no problems, then a bit of a problem, then evacuation, then....???!!!!

Exactly

**not bkk** · 12th March 2011 08:23

Originally Posted by Tron

My wife was just telling me that next weekend the moon will be closer to the earth. She said that scientists are warning that this might cause more natural disasters. They (the scientists) made references to past disasters when the moon was closer to earth. Not sure if there is any validity to these claims. I'll have to check it out when I have time later today.

Our moon does have bearing on things, natural events, etc.