7.9 and 8.8 Earthquakes in Japan

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.

icey if you watch the 15 minute one there are a lot of moving cars in the path of the oncoming wave, the camera doesn't linger on it but it doesn't look like that area was completely evacuated, ppl are still driving on roads that seconds later are getting flooded

what makes that footage so crazy is the birdseye view, so you get a sense of scale of the destruction but not a sense of where humans are in relation to it, most of the footage from 2004 I've seen was on-the-ground stuff so you can actually see the people fleeing

seeing ground footage from sendai would not be good methinks

i specifically mentioned the cars!

Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/japanearthquake2011/pool/

yeah i really want to know what happened to the dozen or so ppl on the rooftop of the large building in the last seconds of the 15 minute video, it ends as the wave approaches them

Updated tsunami amplitude map

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef014e5fcc1a75970c-800wi

nature, man

Huge aftershocks all night. 6.6 was the biggest so far.

It looks like Japan is vomiting blood in that image.

Indonesia volcano erupts, spews lava and gas

JAKARTA, Indonesia – One of Indonesia's most active volcanos has erupted, sending lava and searing gas clouds tumbling down its slopes.
Volcanology official Agus Budianto said Friday that authorities were still trying to evacuate residents living along the slopes of Mount Karangetang.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage.

The 5,853-foot (1,784-meter) mountain is located on Siau, part of the Sulawesi island chain. It last erupted in August, killing four people.

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is located on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
The eruption happened hours after a massive earthquake in Japan that triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami.

from twitter

Anyone stuck in Tokyo DM me for a place to spend the night．Sumiyoshi- Kai will provide food & shelter.

I find it strange that there aren't more than a few different videos and photo albums of this. Not complaining, I just thought coming from Japan there would be way more amateur videos documenting it.

not sure if this was posted, real time tweets on google maps
http://www.mibazaar.com/japan.html

the telco network is fucked! xp

some ground footage, weird to see people standing on a bridge in this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_bbFdJfz0

ground level footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xOzYRdEPBE

Ok I haven't seen that one yet. Thats nuts.

cripes, its like watching an invisible hand sweeping away legos.

from sendai harbor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMRiike0Hg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Cosmo_Oil_explosion_20110311.png

That newscaster in ice cr?m's clip could be reading the stock market ticker.

the worst bit of that video is the car with windscreen wipers and indicator lights on

totally. and the person walking their bike slowly up the road, seemingly unaware of the torrent coming their way. p upsetting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJzdtzl6KY

A building in downtown Tokyo swaying and flexing with the earthquake.

tuned mass damper, y'all

always really impressed how thousands of tons concrete and steel can flex like cedars in a strong wind

Tsunami hitting the SF (East) Bay:
http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Tsunami.jpg

the world is pretty amazing

my company's office in tokyo had to relocate last year because they were in an old non-earthquake-certified bldg, they were forced to move by law, japan takes that stuff pretty seriously

with good reason I guess

can you imagine what itd be like if an 8.9 hit any other city?

Shit just got serious.
http://twitter.com/#!/EW/status/46277336311660545

yeah really, if it was going to hit somewhere, japan is prolly most well-prepared for it

xp

can you imagine what itd be like if an 8.9 hit any other city?

― max, Friday, March 11, 2011 4:21 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

chiles was an 8.8

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http://youropenbook.org/?q=pearl+harbor&gender=any

i don't get why ppl always post shit like this in these threads

I look at Shasta's East Bay picture and think about that wave beginning in daylight, going through night, and then coming back into the dawn of the same day again.

chiles was an 8.8

― ice cr?m, Friday, March 11, 2011 4:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

right but it didnt hit as close to major urban areas

"very cool link that i appreciated"

well neither of them registered nearly 8.8 in any major urban areas xp

unless you consider under the ocean a major urban area