Massive 8.9 mag quake in N Japan...

[aways]

Major tsunami damage in N Japan after 8.9 quake - Yahoo! News



Horrible tragedy....

[Jim Bremner]

Thankfully it was 80 miles off of the coast!

[356RS]

My house is right on the beach here in Oregon. We are taking some action right now. I don't like the photos I've seen so far.

[Jim Bremner]

Originally Posted by 356RS

My house is right on the beach here in Oregon. We are taking some action right now. I don't like the photos I've seen so far.

I don't see any warnings....

[slodave]

LA and Ventura is under a watch, no warning though.

[village idiot]

I'm in Honolulu, not far from the beach I put both my P-cars up in the air @ work...I'm crossing my fingers.................

[Heel n Toe]

NOAA Tsunami Bulletins for this Earthquake for US west coast, British Columbia, and Alaska:
Magnitude 8.9 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

[Mr.Puff]

Scary stuff. I'm happy to be in the valley for once .

[JavaBrewer]

I am stranded at TCAT. Any Japan pelicans have advice or can provide a lift to Dome hotel? PM me. Thanks!

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Hawaii and the entire west coast are under a tsunami warning. Supposed to reach Hawaii at 0800 eastern time - about a half hour. Don't screw around with this one! Better safe than sorry!

This sounds just terrible, an 8.9 is HUGE... Good thing Japan has strict building codes and good construction practices or there would have been a LOT more damage and loss of life. If rhis had ever happened in one of the many locations of the world that still use predominantly unreinforced masonry construction, it would have been downright apocalyptic - and that's not even factoring in the tsunami.

Radio was saying that a refinery was burning out of control this morning and a nuclear reactor had lost cooling capacity, but fortunately not containment... Let's hope this doesn't get much worse.

I wouldn't go anywhere near the ocean for a few hours just in case... Well, not without the surfboard anyway (I kid! I kid!)

[azasadny]

Wow! The "end-timers" will have a field day with this! They will be screaming "the world is coming to an end" even though these horrible natural disasters occur regularly. I feel bad for those affected.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Warning & watch info (tsunami):

Tsunami message from WCATWC

[Laneco]

Originally Posted by 356RS

My house is right on the beach here in Oregon. We are taking some action right now. I don't like the photos I've seen so far.

You, and my favorite 356 in the whole world, need to get to some higher ground, Mark!

angela

[masraum]

I used to live near the coast just north of where the quake struck on an air force base in Misawa. From what I've been able to find, the base didn't lose anyone and is mostly without power.

These videos are amazing, especially the videos that show the tsunami traveling inland. Nothing slows it down. In the videos you can see people driving away from the tsunami on roads. I can't even imagine how terrifying it must be to see the wave coming like that.

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[slakjaw]

TOKYO -- Japan's top government spokesman says the country has issued a state of emergency at a nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed. There was no radiation leak.

This is bad.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by slakjaw

TOKYO -- Japan's top government spokesman says the country has issued a state of emergency at a nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed. There was no radiation leak.

This is bad.

The plant has multiple back up cooling systems. I have not heard if those worked. I suspect they did. They are designed to do an automatic emergency shut down with any earthquake above a certain level. The plant will likely be shut down for years. The entire communications system is crippled in Japan.

[krystar]

yea the nuke plant is shutdown already. mobile networks are still all dead. can't get any calls thru. hardlines are jam packed

[kaisen]

A couple of my friends in Japan have made posts on Facebook, so not all communication is down

[masraum]

Originally Posted by kaisen

A couple of my friends in Japan have made posts on Facebook, so not all communication is down

Yeah, I saw a video where a Brit in Japan that felt the quake was talking to the BBC via Skype.

It's not the entire country, just parts of it. Also, fortunately, even though Tokyo felt the quake it was very far from the epicenter. Had the epicenter been closer to Tokyo, the magnitude of the devastation would have been much worse.

[island911]

Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

I am stranded at TCAT. Any Japan pelicans have advice or can provide a lift to Dome hotel? PM me. Thanks!

TCAT = Tokyo City Air Terminal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ?

Yikes. But at least you're not to the north.