7.9 and 8.8 Earthquakes in Japan

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

ugh, do you have a desire to hate humanity? then click here

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

good i was hoping to get into another fight on this thread

i feel like maybe the only thing worse than ppl that use national or international tragedies to remind us that they're racist is people that use national or international tragedies to remind us that other ppl are racist

anyway

haha i "like" reading those facebook things, its like rubbernecking a car accident

max maybe u should consider stopping making false claims, also posting man boob videos

It's relevant. Dunno what you're up in arms about.

http://grab.by/9qrl

ha this guy is top notch

Kyodo news agency is reporting that four commuter trains are still unaccounted for in the Miyagi and Iwate prefectures, the coastal area of northeastern Japan that were hardest hit by the tsunami.

I think my favourite method of earthquake-proofing is this unlikely tale:

Slosh tank
A slosh tank is a large tank of fluid placed on an upper floor. During a seismic event, the fluid in this tank will slosh back and forth, but is directed by baffles - partitions that prevent the tank itself becoming resonant; through its mass the water may change or counter the resonant period of the building. Additional kinetic energy can be converted to heat by the baffles and is dissipated through the water - any temperature rise will be insignificant.

SURELY NOT?

j0rdan I feel like maybe you could just stfu and sb me if it bothers you so much

would it be possible for ppl to keep their sandy vadges out of the japan earthquake thread thx

welp everyones fighting the emergency much be over

slosh tank = tuned mass damper!!!

oh wait

Breaking News
Japan says radiation levels surges outside nuclearplant, expands area subject to evacuation - AP
5 minutes ago

this is insane

"damn you will gibson!!"

aftermath looks pretty devastated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfY1w0x744s

holy shit

Random House Tower has not one but two slosh tanks. Or as "fluid tuned mass dampers", with 265,000 and 379,000 liters of water each.

who else keeps thinking of el-p

tbh he's the only reason i know what a tuned mass damper is to begin with

they're fukkin rad, i'd rap about em

glad i got off the el-p train before he started going on abt earthquake preparedness - anyway this guy makes some good points imo

http://grab.by/9qtk

i mean it might not be the best time but someone has to mention all them nuclear threats

serious guilty LOLs at these complete fucktards

it's like these dudes totally forget that we obliterated not one, but two of japan's cities entirely.

who else keeps thinking of el-p

― max, Friday, March 11, 2011 4:04 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbh he's the only reason i know what a tuned mass damper is to begin with

― ullr saves (gbx), Friday, March 11, 2011 4:05 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol this is exactly what went thru my mind

thoughts anyone???

errrrr just to clarify (although I really hope clarification is unnecessary and I'm just begin overly cautious) I meant the ppl in the openbook thing

btw youropenbook is a valuable service but it needs to remove any status that link to it, after a while it just ends up being a lot of statuses with people being like "check out these fuckos youropenbook.com=search?htmlpearl harber.edu"

yeah, noticed that

it appears these FB morons are unaware of post-Pearl Harbor retaliations...you know, of the ATOMIC variety.

fuck you and your stupid fucking karma, buddy. they got karma up the yin yang, and radiation poisoning to boot, 65 fucking years ago.

they shouldn't make me mad but someone as naturally IA as myself simply can't help it

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/741/screenshot20110311at421.png

deej made that joke in the first 50 posts of this thread

Nope, pretty sure that Ashley Lesnick was the only person on the earth who thought that one up today.

the contrast w/the profile pics really gets me, like one w/a dog, another w/optimus prime looking all contemplative

morons can be deceptively pleasant-seeming

karmas a bitch, affleck

http://grab.by/9qu6

i liked my phrasing better

http://grab.by/9qtk

http://www.theonion.com/articles/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock,11150/

fwiw i think having a little sister w/in miles of impact who i couldnt get in touch w/ gives me the right to gallows humor fuck yall