7.9 and 8.8 Earthquakes in Japan

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.

nothing about this sentence scans appropriately to me

Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

fuck*,* as many people as possible

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.

yes, both these ring v true w/me

Big Picture-type gallery @ DM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365318/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-The-moment-mother-nature-engulfed-nation.html

when this video started I was like, well that doesn't look too bad, just a little swell, then after 1:15 it's like omg and then it just keeps going and going and going

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwnxVIlWss

like my mind is having a difficult time processing the immensity of something that renders houses and cars as just so much detritus like what you find in the strainer after washing the dishes

Holy shit are those burning buildings actually moving with the wave? Fucking hell.

The scale of all these images is mind bending. The gas fire one as well as the waves.

That video is unbelievable. It's like humanity and all it's works are just nothing, dear god....

You know humanity will ride this one out though. There are still people posting in the Pitchfork thread, so...

Do we know what's happening on the ground now? I'm confused with the chronology of these. Is the wave still battering the coast? Are there rescue operations happening yet?

It's night in Japan so any daytime shots at this point are old. The waves should have subsided unless there's been significant aftershocks and doubtless major rescue work is happening -- as has been noted, Japan's all too familiar with both earthquakes and tsunamis.

Tsunami waves are hitting California right now, the coast down near where I'm at is due to receive them in about five minutes.

yeah i was gonna say - haven't heard any news from hawaii and the pacific islands during the day so...i hope no news is good news?

The main Hawaii newspaper has some reports:

http://www.staradvertiser.com/

Sounds like there's been some flooding but nothing huge, at least not yet.

http://media.ohio.com/images/efbd96b8a53d3705e70e6a7067007ac5.jpg

These dudes seem remarkably casual about it.

Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)

Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)

Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
Hawaii was hit by a 1-meter (39-inch) wave, according to scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which wasn’t anticipating major damage.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)

I've been personally hit by a 39 inch wave, wasn't a big deal tbh

Local news has vid of tsunami waves hitting the Oregon coast, which at this point merely appear to be the tide rolling in

NHK reporting 95 people dead. Officials bracing for deathtoll equalling the Kobe earthquake (~6k iirc), there are still numerous people missing/MIA.

Parents back home. Skyped. Chatted. They are fine. Yay.

BBCBreaking BBC Breaking News
#Tokyo Electric Power Co: pressure inside reactor at its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant rising; risk of radiation leak, from Reuters

D:

So that story about 300 bodies on the beach was bullshit then?

This is really horrible. Hoping all ilx0rs and their loved ones are okay.

1708: Nuclear physicist Dr Walt Patterson tells the BBC it sounds like there is a "serious problem" at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant. "It's the sort of thing that nuclear engineers have nightmares about," he says. "If it is not resolved in the next few hours it will get serious. If the core is uncovered, then those rods at the top may get hot enough to melt themselves."

he US has sent emergency supplies of coolant to a Japanese nuclear plant affected by the massive earthquake, Hillary Clinton has revealed.

"We just had our Air Force assets in Japan transport some really important coolant to one of the nuclear plants," the US secretary of state said in Washington DC.

"Japan is very reliant on nuclear power and they have very high engineering standards but one of their plants came under a lot of stress with the earthquake and didn't have enough coolant."

...how much is enough to start with?

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor situation "under control", "precautionary measure":
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12nuclear.html

So that story about 300 bodies on the beach was bullshit then?

― Matt DC, Friday, March 11, 2011 9:09 AM (1 minute ago)

What was the source on that? Maybe even if they did locate bodies and haven't ID'd them, than they may not have entered the official death toll yet?

Meanwhile in the Daily Mail it is all the fault of the what astrologers are calling the 'supermoon' o_O:

http://t.co/qOfhmPH