7.9 and 8.8 Earthquakes in Japan

or maybe kyodo news reported something and then took it back?

or maybe they reported it on air and not on their website?

so many possibilities, really

maybe la times has the train now

it's even possible that not every bad thing that has happened has been reported... but idk this is a slightly distasteful pissing contest that steve has won

maybe la times has the train now

guilty lol

http://totallycoolpix.com

^^ uhhhh

how gross is it that they watermarked all the pictures, too. wonder how many years these will be floating around with "totallycoolpix" on them? hope they get their asses sued for putting their logo on other people's pictures.

and their design is a total rip off of the big picture/in focus

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/quake1/bp25.jpg

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/quake1/bp36.jpg

entire morning's local news coverage in Northern California has been about "oh the tsunami that is going to roll in" (1 ft high wave at low tide) "oh dear" and almost zero on Japan. Thanks for reinforcing the stereotype of self-involved, naval-gazing, myopic californians. "Disaster thousands of miles away? HOW IT AFFECTS US".

'local news'

that's an entirely natural thing in a regional news source tbf

These pictures are horrifying

Faultline in that photo matching up exactly with the highway divider line is O_O

have been avoiding the local coverage...not sure that I need a fix of dudes with umbrellas standing on beaches telling me nothing is happening

i think it must have to do with how the road is built, since it does it on the other side by the guard rail too

In case people missed the bump
on the other thread, everything is fine on my end.

whew!

Great news.

Awesome (in the terrible sense) how that 15-minute video is in real time. Hard to comprehend what happened in any single minute of that video.

Thinking of Annie Dillard's meditation on natural disasters with incomprehensible damage, For The Time Being.

Awesome and terrible are both words whose original meanings are all too applicable to this...

BreakingNews Breaking News
Fukushima update: Japanese authorities will release radioactive vapor to ease pressure at nuclear reactor - AP
11 minutes ago

UH RELEASE RADIOACTIVE VAPOR

So, err, got an uncle + his family living in Sendai who are uncontactable atm. Trying to focus on the positives i.e. my uncle there is a potter so potential boom times ahead, right.

oh jesus I can't imagine how stressful that must be. :/

oh no, dude...I can't even imagine

hugs?

From The Weather Channel twitter:
From the Times-Standard in Eureka, Calif. Harbor has been destroyed in Crescent City, 35 boats crushed and harbor has major damage.

The US air force is flying additional barrels of deuterium depleted light water to Fukushima, but evidently if you have a meltdown in progress Borax powder dissolved in water makes a very effective neutron absorber. News you can use. Gravity pumped Borax is a regular feature of more recent boiling water reactors.

It's weird...I mean, I spent the day just kinda assuming everything was ok cos one cousin in Tokyo popped up on facebook soon after. Then I rang my dad and he says that obv they can't get through to call my uncle and the cousin hasn't said any more abt it so it's all a bit hoping for the best. Telling myself that most ppl in the area are fine so prob nothing to worry about.

xxp thanks guys. Means a lot for a new ilxor.

Crescent City has a bad history with tsunamis. After the 1964 Alaska earthquake:

http://www.drgeorgepc.com/tsu64CrescentCity.gif

Miniscule news, but: in CA, damage in Crescent City and Santa Cruz.

I have a box of Borax under my sink, can I help?

Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) reporting that at least 200 people have died and another 398 are missing.

Crescent City Harbor is about the size of my flat:
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&q=harbor&fb=1&gl=us&t=h&sll=41.748431,-124.184711&sspn=0.004282,0.009634&rq=1&ev=zi&split=1&radius=0.3&hq=harbor&hnear=&ll=41.748303,-124.18382&spn=0.004282,0.009634&z=17

"All 36 boats in the harbor were damaged".... uhhhhh ok.

golf channel is providing in-depth coverage of the mental states of japanese touring pros

which there's nothing wrong with, i guess, it's just really weird

balkanization_of_cable.xls

best wishes oppet

Hope you get good news soon, oppet

echoing the well wishes of everyone else, oppet

What they all said, oppet. I pretty much have nothing to say but HOLY FUCKING SHIT at it all, but my heart and thoughts and prayers going out to anyone who needs them right now.

local Sacto news getting reports from CHP in Crescent City that roads have been flooded and some homes damaged

Mr Veg says Int3l employees in Japan are putting up photos of the Tsukuba office, stories of employees walking 2.5 hours home after the quake, cell phones out but wifi firmly in place...photos from the office the place has water pouring in from the ceiling, all over the floor, pretty trashed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQTJy5mWejA&feature=player_embedded#at=12

not sure if this has been posted

looks like edited version of the 15 minute one above

still terrifying + unfathomable

hope your uncle's ok oppet

Video/photos from Crescent City here: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/03/11/tsunami-watch-for-california-coast-after-big-japan-quake/

at 2:12 in that video-- the end of all things, my god. A wave of broken scrambled civilization eats everything

The Triplicate (NoCal newssite) is down/overwhelmed but coming through occasionally:
http://www.triplicate.com/

i havent heard what the evacuation situation was like - there are few moving cars in that video but besides that it seems like people were able to get out - in comparable images from the 04 indian ocean tsunami there are all sorts of people running and on balconies and roofs - tho obv those couldve just been from more densely populated areas tho

Some more news sites for infovores:
http://www.philippinenews.com/
http://www.rnzi.com/index.php (Radio New Zealand international - shortwave radio network for South Pacific islands)

One minor, trivial bit of good news amidst all this:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/03/11/funny-pictures-japan-tsunami-maru-safe/

At least Maru the cat is safe. There's a photo of him playing in his emergency cat transfer pack his owner readied just in case.