7.9 and 8.8 Earthquakes in Japan

Really great to get some good news at last.

That photo of the cat is breaking my heart.

2142: A Twitter campaign has been set up to persuade Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yukio Edano, to go to bed. Mr Edano has been dutifully covering the nuclear crisis at all hours of the day and night, but many TV viewers feel the strain is beginning to tell. The hashtag #edano_nero - which mean "Edano, go to bed" - has been trending on Twitter

xp MaresNest, indeed, indeed...

You know, of all the stupid "escapist" disaster movies I've ever seen, I don't think I've seen one that featured an entire unmoored town more or less swept away down a river.

someone call Michael Bay

Actually, I wonder if FX crews and CGI guys actually study disasters to try to be accurate? Like, in five years will there be a guy plopped in front of a bank on monitors, morbidly replaying this horrific stuff again and again to try to recreate it for a forgettable summer blockbuster?

ilx isn't that bad surely

oh my days

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/japan-earthquake-rescue-recovery-and-reaction/100024/

In the days since the earthquake, Japan has experienced an additional 403 aftershocks -- 32 of them with a magnitude greater than 6.0.

wow. i have no idea what's "common" in similar circumstances but this sounds like a lot

this photo breaks my heart

A mother tries to talk to her daughter who has been isolated for signs of radiation after evacuating from the vicinity of Fukushima\'s nuclear plants, at a makeshift facility to screen, cleanse and isolate people with high radiation levels in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao HEALTH)

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/jpq0314/j35_RTR2JV4A.jpg

In the complete mess of it all, the one thing that's really got to me is the actual attitude of those there. Yes there are shots of people crying, but the majority seem to be getting on with it.
In all of the recent disasters, i don't recall seeing people queueing like this in such harsh times.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/jpq0314/s_j27_RTR2JU2Z.jpg

oppet :DDDDDDDD

Hard to keep track of all these but Dai-ichi #2 experienced another massive blast about 30 minutes ago.

That is the 4th explosion involving a nuclear reactor since the 9.0 earthquake.

When it did become 9.0? Ppl still calling it 8.9 that I can see.

Ugh jesus fuck:

In a message on Twitter about Friday's earthquake, [Family Guy] scriptwriter Alec Sulkin wrote: "If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google 'Pearl Harbor death toll."'

The reference to imperial Japan's sneak attack on US forces in Hawaii, which killed about 2500 people, set off a storm of criticism over the internet.
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Sulkin apologised and deleted the message, explaining that he wrote it when he believed the death toll was lower.

"Yesterday death toll - 200. Today - 10,000. I am sorry for my insensitive tweet. It's gone," he wrote.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THE DEATH TOLL WAS THE ONLY BAD THING ABOUT THAT "JOKE", RIGHT.

I'm at loss whether to tune this all out or follow it (almost obsessively) as I have been. It's p much req for me to read a dozen news articles as a journalism major, but man is this constant onslaught of bad news/death tolls bumming me out. It's really that one pic I posted upthread that initiated it.. "10,000 feared dead" is easy to say and something that, yeah, makes me go "woah" but not really feel much. Seeing these pics of mothers crying over dead daughters has me literally welling up.

I mean I really wish I were apart of the Red Cross or whatever such American orgs are over there atm... I get restless just sitting around in class, listening to ppl talk about not liking daylight savings time or whatever. I mean, I feel guilty just posting in ILM. It's like... to what degree are you just supposed to move on with your life? And why wallow in others troubles? I feel a relative disconnect with most news, even if regarding an atrocity... not sure why Japan has hit me so hard lately.

The U.S. Geological Survey has upgraded the magnitude of Friday's deadly earthquake in Japan to 9.0

LOS ANGELES - The move Monday comes after Japan's Meteorological Agency did the same. It's not unusual for scientists to tweak the magnitude of a giant quake after some number-crunching.

U.S. government scientists originally put the Japan quake at 8.9. The change to 9.0 means that the quake was about 1.5 times stronger than initially thought.

The Japan quake is now the fourth largest in the world since 1900 behind the 2004 magnitude-9.1 Sumatra quake.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/jpq0314/s_j02_13030808.jpg

this one is just like how high did the water get

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/jpq0314/s_j11_14012714.jpg

A baby girl was found in Ishinomaki yesterday, a coastal town northeast of Sendai smashed by the tsunami.

Members of the Japanese Self Defence Force marvelled at the four-month-old's survival, wrapping her in a pink jacket and transporting her to safety.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Monday, March 14, 2011 4:44 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I keep wondering if anyone was in that (or any other) boat...

time out tokyo doing a hell of a job keeping up on developments, incl translating press conferences http://twitter.com/#!/TimeOutTokyo

Family Guy writer being an enormous cunt is possibly the least shocking thing ever.

great link harlan, thanks

latest explosion:

The basic summary: At 6.10am, an explosion was heard at Fukushima Power Plant 1, container 2. TEPCO aren't really confirming what happened either way, but NISA say it probably has something to do with suppression pools beneath the fuel rods. The Japanese reporters at the news conference grilled the TEPCO spokespeople into an embarrassed silence.

tx harlan.

>Family Guy writer being an enormous cunt is possibly the least shocking thing ever.

maybe, but I was shocked

shocked enough at the sentiment when expressed by anonymous online users, triply shocked anyone famous would just out and sign their name on to something as appalling as that, and I hope he notices his own shame sometime between now and soon

also gilbert godfreid (sp?) got fired by aflac for insensitive japan tweets

i don't think anyone foresaw the aflac duck as being amongst the casualties

hope the fucker gets fired

The basic summary: At 6.10am, an explosion was heard at Fukushima Power Plant 1, container 2. TEPCO aren't really confirming what happened either way, but NISA say it probably has something to do with suppression pools beneath the fuel rods. The Japanese reporters at the news conference grilled the TEPCO spokespeople into an embarrassed silence.

― sleeve, Monday, March 14, 2011 7:20 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jesus

NHK: Japanese government has made an official request to the US government for assistance in cooling the fuel rods.

omg

PM Kan admits that he saw the explosion on TV, but nobody informed him officially for an hour. He tells TEPC: Pull yourselves together (NHK)

A Swiss 3rd-party nuclear watchdog group will be brought in to monitor the situation at the 4 trouble nuclear plants.

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

Cappie Pondexter sorry for tweets

COME ON, CAPPIE

the worst is these totally bullshit insulting "apologies"

why did the anti-defamation league comment on it

cappie pondexter is the love child of John Poindexter & Caspar Weinberger

Yeah that was so backhanded "sorry I offended anyone but u know I believe god does this shit for a reason." &*^&^%^

more on the god did it tip i dont want to embed it here cause its just gross, but c&p if you like youtube.com/watch?v=7UmotTE-VlY

http://grab.by/9tx3

lol

I want to punch tamtampamela in the face.

*likes & favs*

Haha I didn't even notice her name

it's good to know that when I go to hell ppl like her will be sitting in jesus's lap

princess tamtampamela

lol