godzilla is such an asshole
― deej, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link
complimentary map:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/01/ttvulhvpd9-01.jpg
to quote dr samuel beckett: "oh....boy"
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i just heard they're evacuating tokyo??
― deej, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:10 (thirteen years ago) link
in case anyone is wondering, grady is not in hawaii
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 March 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
unless they grounded flights w/in the past few hours
he must have meant buildings in tokyo
― deej, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
this footage of the waves wiping out towns is so brutal
― jeff, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
oil refinery fire is looking more and more terrifying
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm DJing a birthday party and watching al jazeera on my iPhone. This is really conflicting.
― Clay, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:16 (thirteen years ago) link
many xposts thanks AA for reassurance abt Australia/tsunami... stuff like this just wigs me right out
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm in Tokyo, I don't think they're evacuating the city. At least I hope not...
― adamj, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:17 (thirteen years ago) link
if that wave keeps going it's our turn in 10 hours
― acoleuthic, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
hang tight lj
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
They can't evacuate Tokyo, it's far too big, where would everyone go?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^was actually going to post that sentiment
― adamj, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha guess I should have flown out of Hawaii today instead of tomorrow
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
:/
― acoleuthic, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen the footage of that initial debris wave twenty times now and it still blows my mind every single time.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Just saw it. Unbelievable.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoohoo sirens
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Not going to hit here until 3 am, but I think they are trying to get peeps to go look at the news
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:25 (thirteen years ago) link
np veg (keep ignoring those warnings, I'm getting consistent information here from two major sources that aus is safe)
― Birds (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
<3
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Secondary Al Jazeera stream
http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:30 (thirteen years ago) link
gahhh awful. already heard from my japanese colleagues and they are all fine thank god
― kl0ppa kl0ppa down (tpp), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Hawaii's coast is being evacuted??
― Jooones, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
No it isn't. I say that as a dude currently 30 yards from the coast on Maui.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
The Isle of Man is forecasted to have 10" waves hitting her coasts shortly. Good luck Angland.
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
We're being told some low-lying areas of Hawaii are being evacuated, but I don't know enough about Hawaiian geography/topology to make any sort of call on that.
― Birds (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckkkk not the kind of thing you ever want to wake up to. footage is unbelievable/awful - floating fires in residential areas, horror as you see cars getting swept away live
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Friday, March 11, 2011 3:46 AM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark
the chile earthquake from last yr?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 March 2011 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just going by what the guy on Al Jazeera is saying.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:50 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes footage looks not so bad until you catch sight of a house or something and suddenly realise the scale. awful.
― stet, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
6 deaths being reported (not counting the 2 deaths from the earthquake 2 days ago).
― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Hawaii local news also reporting this is larger than the chile one fyi
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 March 2011 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Chile was 8.8 it seems, and this is 8.9.
That might not seem like a big difference, but it is.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Each 0.1 escalation is x100 right?
tsunami watch for washington and oregon coasts
― harlan, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
LA Times says it's the world's fifth largest since 1900, according to USGS
― adamj, Friday, 11 March 2011 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching the Busena Terrace webcam (north shore of Okinawa) to get a sense of how large the tsunami will be across the Pacific. ETA in 12 minutes.
― Competent Person Statement (Sanpaku), Friday, 11 March 2011 09:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you kiddng? Some caller just "baba booey'ed" the MSNBC coverage.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 March 2011 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
death toll up to 19 according to al jazeera according to "japanese media"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 March 2011 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Hawaii's Department of Emergency Management issues tsunami refuge locations
― James Mitchell, Friday, 11 March 2011 09:08 (thirteen years ago) link
And Google updates its Person Finder webapp, again: http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en
― James Mitchell, Friday, 11 March 2011 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh. We're in the 4th floor and they might be moving us up to the 6th floor which is kinda o_O
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 March 2011 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
places like Tuvalu & Vanuatu could be in serious trouble :(
― zappi, Friday, 11 March 2011 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
footage of that japanese newsroom, there's a moment where the intern-lookin' boy shifts his attention from his keyboard, boss gives him the pointy finger of doom and he returns to frantic typing
this is as the newsroom is shaking like a 70s disco
― acoleuthic, Friday, 11 March 2011 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Guy on Japanese TV says this was 180 times the strength of the Kobe earthquake
― adamj, Friday, 11 March 2011 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link