7.9 and 8.8 Earthquakes in Japan

on al jazeera they just said that a roof caved in at a graduation ceremony at a university in japan -- 600 students were inside

― J0rdan S., Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:42 PM (2 minutes ago)

on NHK they said that several students were injured, nothing critical.

i think this is where we're looking at with the NHK stream
http://i53.tinypic.com/of1341.jpg

Tsunami warning extended for most of US Pacific coast.

my little sister is in jp :-/

on NHK they said that several students were injured, nothing critical.

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, March 11, 2011 2:46 AM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark

aight cool

What's her routine, deej? Do they usually stay on the ship, or head into town immediately?

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/icons/1968_0516.jpg

im not sure. she was on medical leave in tokyo, is normally on the other side of the country

Tokyo seems to be okay according to reports.

im watching an effin boat coast across farmland o_O

^^^^

fuck earthquakes. tokyo is fine, deej.

@ deej - that's shocking footage, the cars racing against it on the highway - they seem to have gotten away :)

also, I KNOW al Jazeera is awesome but this coverage is really, truly blowing USA away

6.1 and 6.3 aftershocks a little closer to Tokyo.

some different video
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

Can't wait to find out who Pat Robertson blames this on.

14 structures reported on fire in Tokyo due to earthquake.

According to FB friends, the U.S. NWS is issuing tsunami watches for the Oregon & Washington State coasts, with the wave expected to hit in about 7.5 hours

Nick Momus reports only a 'slight lurch' in Osaka.

godzilla is such an asshole

complimentary map:

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/01/ttvulhvpd9-01.jpg

to quote dr samuel beckett: "oh....boy"

i just heard they're evacuating tokyo??

in case anyone is wondering, grady is not in hawaii

unless they grounded flights w/in the past few hours

he must have meant buildings in tokyo

My coworkers in Tokyo are being sent home early (which is a really big deal!). No real damage there, most of the damage you see is in low-lying reclaimed land on the coast of Miyagi near Sendai.

this footage of the waves wiping out towns is so brutal

oil refinery fire is looking more and more terrifying

I'm DJing a birthday party and watching al jazeera on my iPhone. This is really conflicting.

many xposts thanks AA for reassurance abt Australia/tsunami... stuff like this just wigs me right out

I'm in Tokyo, I don't think they're evacuating the city. At least I hope not...

if that wave keeps going it's our turn in 10 hours

hang tight lj

They can't evacuate Tokyo, it's far too big, where would everyone go?

^^^was actually going to post that sentiment

Haha guess I should have flown out of Hawaii today instead of tomorrow

:/

I've seen the footage of that initial debris wave twenty times now and it still blows my mind every single time.

Just saw it. Unbelievable.

Whoohoo sirens

Not going to hit here until 3 am, but I think they are trying to get peeps to go look at the news

np veg (keep ignoring those warnings, I'm getting consistent information here from two major sources that aus is safe)

<3

Secondary Al Jazeera stream

http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish

gahhh awful. already heard from my japanese colleagues and they are all fine thank god

Hawaii's coast is being evacuted??

No it isn't. I say that as a dude currently 30 yards from the coast on Maui.

So apparently this is the 7th most powerful quake in recorded history, and the only one of the 7 to strike near a populated area.

That can't be good.

The Isle of Man is forecasted to have 10" waves hitting her coasts shortly. Good luck Angland.

10 years ago today (officially 9.1 on the Richter scale, lasting 6 minutes).

14,308 people drowned (including 1 man in Indonesia and 1 man in Oregon!)
19,575 total dead including after-effects

The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 125 ft in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, causing whitewater to surge up to 6 miles inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes of warning, and more than a hundred evacuation sites were washed away.

The tsunami broke icebergs off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica, ~8k miles away.

The earth's axis shifted between 10-25cm.

Three level 7 meltdowns occured at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex.

Within a year objects such as a soccer ball and a motorcycle would wash ashore in western Canada, over four thousand miles after drifting across the Pacific.