patiirc Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Things are not looking good  Proper mental.... Fires and and destruction and shit, who needs Mothra to cause damage?  Fuck  8.9 Magnitude quake  Whole Pacfic on Tsunami Alert, it hits Hawaii in 4 hours  Watching on the BBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 Seems it's not as bad as it could've been, though - mainly countryside areas affected and small areas of Tokyo. Â According to the Japan Meteorological Office, the earthquake was a 4 on the Japanese earthquake scale, which measures impact - apparently the Richter scale only measures the energy of the earthquake, which can be misleading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 Apparently, the CNN anchor was laughing and talking about Godzilla while watching the tsunami footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 Apparently, the CNN anchor was laughing and talking about Godzilla while watching the tsunami footage. Â You would expect that from Fox News but not CNN Â Biggest ever earthquake to hit Japan, but as they actually plan and prepare for this sort of thing they should sort it out pretty quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twatters Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 A friend of mine (and KooKoocachu) is actually in Nikko in Japan atm. I'm sure she's ok, but i believe it's closer to it than Tokyo, hopefully hear from her or her family soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Seems it's not as bad as it could've been, though - mainly countryside areas affected and small areas of Tokyo. According to the Japan Meteorological Office, the earthquake was a 4 on the Japanese earthquake scale, which measures impact - apparently the Richter scale only measures the energy of the earthquake, which can be misleading.  Its because its a shallow quake though, only 15 miles down. which is why the drama? hence the warnings, heck even Google is carrying the Tsunami alert  Bullet trains stopped and so on.  Lots of after shocks...  6.2 according to the JMS here  JMS Levels explained Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jaffa Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 I've just got off the phone to my parents, who live in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand and they're on Tsunami alert. Â They're being told that it's not a precautionary alert - they're expecting it to hit. They only live a few yards from the beach, so they're far from safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 I've just got off the phone to my parents, who live in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand and they're on Tsunami alert. Â They're being told that it's not a precautionary alert - they're expecting it to hit. They only live a few yards from the beach, so they're far from safe. Â Hope your folks will be fine, brownie - I'm sure they will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 its at times like this that im thankful that i live in a place where this stuff doesn't happen. Hopefully it doesn't do too much damage, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 The pictures and footage is unbelievable. because of the technology in Japan, we'll get much more footage of this. This picture is incredible: Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twatters Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 A friend of mine (and KooKoocachu) is actually in Nikko in Japan atm. I'm sure she's ok, but i believe it's closer to it than Tokyo, hopefully hear from her or her family soon. Â And she's just posted on facebook that she's ok. Â The picture tiger_rick just posted is crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 holy f'n shit, that picture looks like the end of the world. Â Horrifying stuff, they are listing times on the news now of what time the tsnami are hitting various countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Dent Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 They've declared a state of emergency at a nuclear power plant after the cooling system failed. This is all pretty horrific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 11, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 11, 2011 BBC map said Phillipines was due for the Tsunami at 10am. Not heard anything yet though. Amazingly Mexico, Peru and Chile are on the Beeb's map. Can't believe it can travel that far. Hawaii was 13:07. They must be shitting themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I have a number of friends who work in Osaka and Tokyo. A few of them have yet to check in, though the internet is down there obviously. Â Worrying times. Â The footage of the tsunami sweeping the countryside has to be one of the most horrific things I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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