7.9 and 8.8 Earthquakes in Japan

Oh you adorable limey

if there's one thing worse than predictive text it's not consulting urbandictionary before posting

See I'm from the streets so I know what's up

the streets, in a few hours

Btw if I die I am happy to go out quoting "I ain't the one"

Look it up lj

ice cube or skynyrd?

aha, the one you quoted then

Best song to ever utilize poop-butt btw

skynyrd would be kinda incongruous w/ yr marital situation, was o_Oing until i looked further down the page

Ha you might want to listen to the nwa before you give me any marital cred tbh

take care jj + k

deej, i really hope your sister is fine and that you hear from her soon, i have recently been through the same horrible wait to hesr from my sister who was in christchurch so you have my full empathy.

<3

a friend of mine has been trying to get through to his sister in osaka - when he finally did so, her response was "what earthquake?"

lol how embarrassing

Yeah, Nick's in Osaka and they had a few shaky tremors but nothing major - he said the holy-fucking did not commence until he tuned into the Al J feed.. Japan is incredibly well-prepared for seismic activity; good luck Pacific.

Via Elvis T:

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/energylhvpd9-04.jpg

Uh that looks bad for me

Ok to be fair that is my reaction with a totally lunkheaded grasp on geography so I am glad to be wrong here

hawaii is directly in line with the projected path of the biggest eastward waves

You can see a little blue dot that's supposed to be Hawaii.

going to bed, the very best of luck deej's sister and jjj

What side of the island are you on jjj?

Northwest side. Whoops.

Tbf in all seriousness i am in a tall concrete/steel structure (which is inconveniently close to the shore which sucks atm but) worst case we get stuck for a day or two - bathtub is full of water etc so not really worried. Still fucking freaky tho, not going to lie.

Ring-side seats for this thing then, but I guess there's all the other islands to your northwest that will take the worst of it.

Yeah we're pretty much in that wedge between Molokai and lanai, so I don't know how that works

FWIW, Wake Island (sort of on the same path) only saw 0.39M / 1.3FT.

Barely worth getting your board out, but good luck anyhow jjj!

Uh according to Hawaii news midway island just reported 4 foot swell

kind of really glad facebook exists-- one of my friends in japan who was unaccounted for doesn't have internet at home so I thought I'd have to wait and worry for the next day or so, but her sister (in uk) posted on someone else's comment thread that she's okay.

So basically no one knows anything. On the not awesome side, the hotel isnt allowing the lower floors to bring any luggage or bags with them, just prescription medication

Obv an xpost

Same as me c major, one of my oldest friends from Dublin is in Sendai, he's fine tho.

Japan declares 'nuclear emergency' as attempts to cool reactor at northern plant are 'not going as planned' - official via NHK

Really not feeling good about this.

!!!!

well, shit

Thinking of you Jjusten.

Ok so apparently the second wave at midway was 8 feet

Tbf all of this would be much more useful info if I was not a shitheel from the middle of a continent.

I logged on to my work email today and saw that one of my colleagues in our Tokyo office had sent an email at 11:38pm ET. In almost comically stereotypical fashion, it informed us that they had email and network access in the office, but might have difficulty at work due to continuing aftershocks. This was followed about 10 minutes later by our SF-based VP of Operations informing the company that Tokyo was closed for at least the weekend.

Hey jjjusten - keep us updated when u can and look after yrself. Sending out anti-tsunami mindwaves now.

Can't find anything else on this?!

[6:41 a.m. ET, 8:41 p.m. Tokyo] CNN International, citing Reuters news service, is reporting a ship with 100 people aboard has been swept away by the tsunami off Japan.

It must be so chaotic out there that it's virtually impossible to corroborate anything.

hawaii has been given a playful tickle in the form of a 4.5 earthquake. nature, you coquette

Good luck, JJ.

Holy fucking crap I've been out all night and I just got txted by N on the way home and what the fuck woah.

Good luck JJ, please let us know you're ok when it's passed.

stay dry, y'all

jjj, you are going to video this shit, right? also, stay safe big man.

waves hitting hawaii about now fwiw

6 ft wave at the speed of an airplane is prediction they were giving a bit ago for HI.

terrifying, apocalyptic footage on that al jazeera news page, jesus.