Massive earthquake hits Japan

[Arumdaum]

JMA doesn't seem to have a 6.0 or 6.6 listed in the last 45 minutes or so, and they're very good about getting things up fast.

It was on the 12th.

[The Soviet Technocracy]

Paul Watson's a dick? You don't say!

Nah, just an SOB. The real dicks are trolling Google's person finder...

some of those are funny

edit: Waiting for the inevitable "Hey mom, I'm a zombie" post from someone who got trolled on PF

[Daistallia 2104]

JMA doesn't seem to have a 6.0 or 6.6 listed in the last 45 minutes or so, and they're very good about getting things up fast.

It was on the 12th.

LOL - there have been some aftershocks in the area in the last hour or so, but all in the 3-4 range.

[Reploid Productions]

USGS lists a 5.4 offshore. Maybe that's it?

[Vortiaganica]

People here started cheering when they heard of the earthquake and tsunamis. It was horrible. Sometimes I wish it hit them instead, racist bastards.

But of course there's nothing I can do to stop them from being racist. And I think the one in Nagano was 6.6. But I'm not sure.

American?

And people say Australians are racist.

(According to the Facebook groups, anyway)

Those bastards trolling the Google People Finder should be shipped to Japan and made to give blood and help reconstruction. Bloody idiots.

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Oh, and Paul Watson and the rest of those anti-Humanitarian environmentalist nutcases can dine in hell.

He makes me want to invest in whaling companies and kill my younger sister's canary just for the lols.

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I doubt the nuclear reactor will do too much. The Japanese need to have redundant power systems, but I suppose with a disaster on this scale, it isn't really feasible. It might not even help that much with power probably gone. (I don't watch the news, it tends to be talking about everything BUT what's actually happing at the disaster - at best, it'll be stuck talking about what happened at the start)

It's not that much radiation, from what I've heard, and I doubt that the Japanese will let things spiral out of control. They've been through worse, right Mr. Truman?

[Arumdaum]

People here started cheering when they heard of the earthquake and tsunamis. It was horrible. Sometimes I wish it hit them instead, racist bastards.

But of course there's nothing I can do to stop them from being racist. And I think the one in Nagano was 6.6. But I'm not sure.

American?

And people say Australians are racist.

(According to the Facebook groups, anyway)

South Korea. They literally hate Japan here.

[Vortiaganica]

American?

And people say Australians are racist.

(According to the Facebook groups, anyway)

South Korea. They literally hate Japan here.

Well, they've a better excuse than the damned Sea Shepard.

[Daistallia 2104]

South Korea. They literally hate Japan here.

Not all of them of course, but yeah, I experienced that in Seoul once or twice. (Not ethnic Japanese, just things like drunk Koreans telling me things like "If you were Japanese, I'd kill you.")

Japan has racist jerks too. Every time the DPRK pulls something, there's always a spate of attacks afterwards. The bastards seem to like targeting girls who go to the Korean schools because their uniforms include chima and thus stand out.

[Daistallia 2104]

Amusing story:

Reporting from Tokyo --
She was elderly and alone, injured and in pain. When the massive earthquake struck, a heavy bookshelf toppled onto Hiroko Yamashita, pinning her down and shattering her ankle.

When paramedics finally reached her, agonizing hours later, Yamashita did what she said any "normal" person would do, her son-in-law recounted later: She apologized to them for the inconvenience, and asked if there weren't others they should be attending to first.

The worst earthquake in Japan's recorded history left a trail of blazing buildings, inundated coastal communities, wrecked roadways and potentially unstable nuclear power plants. But it barely made a dent in the implacably Japanese trait of exhibiting concern for others even in the worst of circumstances.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... ?track=rss

[Arumdaum]

South Korea. They literally hate Japan here.

Not all of them of course, but yeah, I experienced that in Seoul once or twice. (Not ethnic Japanese, just things like drunk Koreans telling me things like "If you were Japanese, I'd kill you.")

Japan has racist jerks too. Every time the DPRK pulls something, there's always a spate of attacks afterwards. The bastards seem to like targeting girls who go to the Korean schools because their uniforms include chima and thus stand out.

Of course not all of them, but a whole lot of them.

There's Korean schools in Japan? And I thought Japanese schoolgirls wore skirts too....

Ughh... nationalists....

[Sibirsky]

Hiroko Yamashita is one of my many heroines.

[Daistallia 2104]

There's Korean schools in Japan? And I thought Japanese schoolgirls wore skirts too....

Koreans are the biggest minority group in Japan, mostly the "Zainichi Koreans" from the occupation period, but also immigrants from the 80s. The two main Zainichi organizations (ROK and DPRK affiliated, of course) run schools that use Korean as the language of instruction, and the girls uniforms are usually the same as for Korea. Most of the attacks were in the 90s, and in '99 most schools allowed girls to wear a different skirt to school and then change.

BTW, Osaka, where I lived 15 of my 19 years in Japan, has the biggest Korean population.

Ughh... nationalists....

Indeed.

Hiroko Yamashita is one of my many heroines.

Good one, eh.

[Kandorith]

http://i56.tinypic.com/30iji37.jpg

Either magic.. or skills I must say...

On serious note, this shows how strangely objects are misplaced.

[Kandorith]

Newest updates:

Fuel rods at both reactor 1 AND 2 fully exposed.

Fuel rods at No3. have fused together.

According to multiple sources, including Kyodo and live broadcasts.

[Forlon]

My heart goes out to Japan. I'm really considering donating, damn being poor, but I want to send at least something, maybe I'll do that thing through Red Cross where they add it to your phone bill. Something, anything at least for one of my top favorite countries in the world.


Anyway, living in SoDak, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't going to cause Yellowstone to destabilize more. I hope not, if Yellowstone goes I'll most likely have little to no time to get out of here. I live about 500 miles away from it, so maybe, but I doubt I'd make it very far before the pyroclastic floes and everything got here.

I know California will be affected by this, hell all along the ring of fire will be probably, but Yellowstone is a big worry of mine--again just due to proximity.

[Daircoill]

My heart goes out to Japan. I'm really considering donating, damn being poor, but I want to send at least something, maybe I'll do that thing through Red Cross where they add it to your phone bill. Something, anything at least for one of my top favorite countries in the world.


Anyway, living in SoDak, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't going to cause Yellowstone to destabilize more. I hope not, if Yellowstone goes I'll most likely have little to no time to get out of here. I live about 500 miles away from it, so maybe, but I doubt I'd make it very far before the pyroclastic floes and everything got here.

I know California will be affected by this, hell all along the ring of fire will be probably, but Yellowstone is a big worry of mine--again just due to proximity.

living that far away from a volcano, even a super volcano, you probably wouldn't have to worry much about pyroclastic flows which travel at about 450 mph. You got an hour to run. Even if it did reach you by that time much of the heat will have dissipated and you would choke on hot gasses slowly, rather than burn instantly. Assuming you escape InstaDeath from the flow, the ash would spread across much of North America, depending on meteorological conditions and you may find yourself choking on hot ash, or being bludgeoned by falling rock. That is of course assuming that the gasses were vented from the ground before the eruption, or else there will probably be a Verne Shot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verneshot) and then we're all pretty much fucked anyway.

[Sibirsky]

My heart goes out to Japan. I'm really considering donating, damn being poor, but I want to send at least something, maybe I'll do that thing through Red Cross where they add it to your phone bill. Something, anything at least for one of my top favorite countries in the world.


Anyway, living in SoDak, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't going to cause Yellowstone to destabilize more. I hope not, if Yellowstone goes I'll most likely have little to no time to get out of here. I live about 500 miles away from it, so maybe, but I doubt I'd make it very far before the pyroclastic floes and everything got here.

I know California will be affected by this, hell all along the ring of fire will be probably, but Yellowstone is a big worry of mine--again just due to proximity.

That's what I did (texted to donate). Main reason being is that these text charges won't be due until the end of April.

I really doubt this will affect Yellowstone.

[Forlon]

My heart goes out to Japan. I'm really considering donating, damn being poor, but I want to send at least something, maybe I'll do that thing through Red Cross where they add it to your phone bill. Something, anything at least for one of my top favorite countries in the world.


Anyway, living in SoDak, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't going to cause Yellowstone to destabilize more. I hope not, if Yellowstone goes I'll most likely have little to no time to get out of here. I live about 500 miles away from it, so maybe, but I doubt I'd make it very far before the pyroclastic floes and everything got here.

I know California will be affected by this, hell all along the ring of fire will be probably, but Yellowstone is a big worry of mine--again just due to proximity.

That's what I did (texted to donate). Main reason being is that these text charges won't be due until the end of April.

I really doubt this will affect Yellowstone.

Maybe not immeadiately, iunno, I guess we'll have to see. Still Yellowstone is going to blow and this just made me think more about it.

Pretty much decided I'm going to donate, at least $10, not much but its something.

[Sibirsky]

That's what I did (texted to donate). Main reason being is that these text charges won't be due until the end of April.

I really doubt this will affect Yellowstone.

Maybe not immeadiately, iunno, I guess we'll have to see. Still Yellowstone is going to blow and this just made me think more about it.

Pretty much decided I'm going to donate, at least $10, not much but its something.

It's $10 more than they would otherwise have. $10 can feed several people.

[Scientific socks]

South Korea. They literally hate Japan here.

Not all of them of course, but yeah, I experienced that in Seoul once or twice. (Not ethnic Japanese, just things like drunk Koreans telling me things like "If you were Japanese, I'd kill you.")

Japan has racist jerks too. Every time the DPRK pulls something, there's always a spate of attacks afterwards. The bastards seem to like targeting girls who go to the Korean schools because their uniforms include chima and thus stand out.

When people in South Korea can recall the 80 odd years of Japanese oppresioin I think it is slightly understandable. Much better than sea shepard that will always find something to complain about. The people saving the whales will just turn to penguins, polar bears, climate change, kangaroos or whatever else once japan stops. Sea Shepard will always find someone to hate.

[Scientific socks]

Maybe not immeadiately, iunno, I guess we'll have to see. Still Yellowstone is going to blow and this just made me think more about it.

Pretty much decided I'm going to donate, at least $10, not much but its something.

It's $10 more than they would otherwise have. $10 can feed several people.

good start. I havnt donated any money to disasters lately. Instead I have donated 2nd hand furniture and my time to help clean up. When the disaster is overseas the physical hand is so much harder to deliver. Anyway after all of the latest disasters I kind of have charity fatigue outside my normal community activities.

[Ifreann]

Apparently Japan(like, all of it) has moved 2.4m. Time to throw out our maps.

[Arumdaum]

Koreans are the biggest minority group in Japan, mostly the "Zainichi Koreans" from the occupation period, but also immigrants from the 80s. The two main Zainichi organizations (ROK and DPRK affiliated, of course) run schools that use Korean as the language of instruction, and the girls uniforms are usually the same as for Korea. Most of the attacks were in the 90s, and in '99 most schools allowed girls to wear a different skirt to school and then change.

BTW, Osaka, where I lived 15 of my 19 years in Japan, has the biggest Korean population.

I know, I used to have relatives that used to live in Osaka.

I don't really get the school uniform thing though, doesn't every school have a different kind of skirt?

When people in South Korea can recall the 80 odd years of Japanese oppresioin I think it is slightly understandable. Much better than sea shepard that will always find something to complain about. The people saving the whales will just turn to penguins, polar bears, climate change, kangaroos or whatever else once japan stops. Sea Shepard will always find someone to hate.

35* years.

[Gauthier]

Pentagon says aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan passes through fallout cloud. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world ... .html?_r=4

And Paul Watson joins the SOB club, along with those calling this revenge for Pearl Harbor, by saying this is divine retribution.
http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/14/pa ... n+Probe%29

Congrats, SS.

Make yourselves look better. Being pirates just isn't quite as bad as being assholes.

My personal view is that Japan is going to be gutted after this. They are frankly not going to recover any time soon. The radiation emitting from the power plants are going to destroy the surrounding environments, and with a high population density, if it hits a major city, we will be seeing casualties in a six figure hight. The world cannot do much about it... it's nature's way.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

no.

So much for Anarcho-Hippies being peaceminded people. Celebrating the death and destruction of a technological society puts them in the same peanut gallery as the WBC.

[Post War America]

The bad part wasn't the tremors, its the nuclear powerstations. The Japanese currently have two options, their industry potentially throwing the world into a true depression, or evacuate Japan, the better part of South Korea, the Kamchatka Peninsula, potentially even Vladivostok, and Beijing. A true meltdown would spell displacement of millions.