7.9 and 8.8 Earthquakes in Japan

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.

Holy shit

If you want surreally mellow coverage:
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904

apparently the waves at hawaii were smaller than forecast

basically japan has borne the vast majority of any brunt

My parents were just landing in Tokyo (after a local trip). They are fine. In a cab going home. This is so fucking surreal. Don't think I am going to Japan this year with the kids. DOn't feel like going ever again. I hope they decide to come back home but I doubt it.

1332: Between 200 and 300 bodies have been found on a beach near Sendai, the semi-official Jiji Press news agency is reporting.

Sort of understandable at the moment but this is a once-in-hundreds-of-years type occurrance and the country will rebound. It'd be sad to write off going back for good.

(xpost fucking hell that's grim)

hey nat, haven't heard from you in a while. glad your parents are okay, stay strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8zyscGWe4&feature=player_embedded#at=49

On the mellow Hawaii news, they're saying calm, calm, calm, no biggie, and a minute ago the whole coral reef on Diamond Head beach was exposed, the ocean inhaling.

Feeling quite sick after reading about the bodies being found in Sendai.

my dad on the big island (just inland enough) watching the waikiki webcam, after at least two big-deal false-alarms in my lifetime: "oh. something's actually happening." stay dry, everyone on the pacific.

stay safe out there jjj; posi thoughts out to all ilxors affected

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The official Kyodo news agency is reporting that about 88,000 people are missing.

Jesus, that number is hard to even process.

yea g-damn

This stream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/foxtokimekitonight is showing what I'm guessing from other reports is the waterfront at Sendai completely ablaze. Just terrifying.

Really hoping that number is just because the phones are jammed to hell and it's impossible to contact anyone.

sending good thoughts to Hawaii and jjj...

ugh just watched some of the footage. horrible. really hope they get this nuclear situation under control.

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That footage is astonishing, I thought it was a lava flow at first.

ugh CNN coverage is the worst...morning "A" team as bad as late night "D" team

al jazeera is killing every news organisation out there atm

heard from my sister. shes stuck in the city but ok

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709856

This is pretty terrifying looking as well. Can't work out where if anywhere the land's supposed to begin.

Al j reporting that the tsunami is reaching Hawaii about now.

Big Picture on the quake, great as usual http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indonesia-volcano-erupts-2239167.html

paging jjj

the world is ending

The second picture on Stet's link, with the couple holding each other as the ceiling collapses, is terrifyingly intimate compared to everything else we're seeing.

Just made the mistake of looking up photos of Sendai on Flickr :(

watching the debris wave stuff makes me feel dehumanized, like we are all just ants

That was my thought exactly - just like water washing away an ants nest. So horrible to see those cars driving around looking for a way out.

holy shit

hope jjj and fuck as many people as possible can survive and be safe.

It makes me feel *very* human, in a rightful-place-of-puny-human kind of way. Also that wierd sense of an emotional connection to the whole human race that extraodinary disasters bring on.

Yup, please to be no more massive bumps in the deathcount.

hope jjj and fuck as many people as possible can survive and be safe.

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