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Other => General Discussion => Topic started by: kswx29 on March 11, 2011, 03:04:10 AM
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I'm quiet surprised this hasn't been posted but a large Earthquake and Tsunami struck Japan a short time ago with wide-spread devistating damage, and now Tsunami Warnings are in effect for the entire Pacific including the state of Hawaii, with (according to TWC) a Tsunami Watch for Oregon and Washington.
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The earthquake was registered at magnitude 8.9 on the Richter Scale. The tsunami was reported to be about 10 meters high in Tokyo, which is about 33 feet. It's a really tragic day in Japan. :(
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The Weather Channel is going commercial-free starting at 7:30 eastern for tsunami coverage.
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Wasn't there a 7.9 earthquake off the Japan coast earlier this week also? Would this had been an aftershock to that one?
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Hawaii Braces For Tsunami From 8.9 Magnitude Honshu, Japan Earthquake (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7-uIRxbloM#)
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Many thoughts and prayers go out to those in Hawaii and along the West Coast.
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This is so sad. My thoughts and prayers are with all of those effected, and the countless families who have lost loved ones. Hundreds reported dead, with much, much more expected, unfortunately.
Unbelievable.
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Some footage of the tsunami hitting Sendai, Japan
Raw Video: Tsunami Slams Northeast Japan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4w27IczOTk#ws)
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the band from the school I graduated from is currently on a trip to hawaii, they are safe and the wave that hit the island was not as extensive as they thought it would be.
http://www.kens5.com/home/Alamo-Heights-band-safe-in-Hawaii-despite-tsunami-waves-117809893.html (http://www.kens5.com/home/Alamo-Heights-band-safe-in-Hawaii-despite-tsunami-waves-117809893.html)
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I found out that this earthquake that triggered everything was the 7th strongest ever recorded. Hundreds of people are dead in Japan, and hundreds more are missing. We'll likely be talking over a thousand dead before they can find everyone in the rubble. Some of the tsunami footage on CNN this morning was unreal and really scary to watch.
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This is the first time in my life that I've actually been under a Tsunami Warning (being a new resident in the San Diego area). The warning lasted several hours during the nighttime, until then it became more of an advisory. Schools didn't cancel or anything here in SD, everything went as if today was a normal, boring day. The LA area and above got most of the damage than any other part of the west coast, especially Crescent City, which is the hardest hit. I was a bit concerned that I'd be seeing some waves coming ashore, since I live near the coast, but nothing happened. As far as I know, no damage have been reported here in the San Diego area.
On a related note. I knew about the earthquake before those "bozo" news networks went on the air to break the news about it. I knew that the cities of Sendai and Tokyo would be extensively damaged by the 8.9 quake, but I never thought that this would trigger a massive tsunami. Reminds me of the 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia. I also never thought that the tsunami would actually impact the whole Pacific Ocean. It's amazing what natural disasters can do.
EDIT: I think the title should be 8.9 quake in Japan/Pacific Tsunami. We're basically talking about both the tsunami in the pacific AND the earthquake in Japan.
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1 dead and 1 missing in Crescent City, CA so far. 4 people were also swept out to sea. This is the second fatal tsunami to hit Crescent City since 1964.
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Japan's NHK Now reporting 10,000 Missing in Minamisanriku, Japan.
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Probably never will ever no how many people is missing, etc. This country needs to prepare for something like this.
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Probably never will ever no how many people is missing, etc. This country needs to prepare for something like this.
What? Japan is probably the most prepared country for earthquakes in the entire world. They were even warned about 1 minute before it hit.
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Probably never will ever no how many people is missing, etc. This country needs to prepare for something like this.
What? Japan is probably the most prepared country for earthquakes in the entire world. They were even warned about 1 minute before it hit.
This country means "America".
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Probably never will ever no how many people is missing, etc. This country needs to prepare for something like this.
As has already been said, Japan is the most prepared country in the world to deal with earthquakes. Earthquake preparedness has basically become a part of their lives.
However, no country, with current technology, can deal with the effects of one of the strongest earthquakes on record plus a tsunami of immense proportions all within the same hour. It's just not possible.
To be perfectly honest, Japan is coping probably better than most countries could in such a situation. It's a true tragedy that's taking place there, there's to be much recovery work and much sadness for quite a while to come, but at least Japan will survive, rebuild, and, hopefully, learn something from this and teach the rest of the world.
Nature is still more powerful than man.
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Probably never will ever no how many people is missing, etc. This country needs to prepare for something like this.
What? Japan is probably the most prepared country for earthquakes in the entire world. They were even warned about 1 minute before it hit.
This country means "America".
America, to an extent, is prepared for natural disasters. However, the United States is much larger than Japan and also faces more varied natural threats.
The parts of the country that are used to earthquakes have stronger building codes than in other places. However, if a rare earthquake should strike in an unexpected and unprepared place, there can be a disaster. The west coast, including Hawaii and Alaska, are the most prepared for a tsunami (though, really, what can one do?). However, should an Atlantic tsunami (similar to the one that affected Newfoundland in the 1920s) strike... good luck to the people on the eastern seaboard. The South gets paralyzed in a snowfall that Northerners hardly even notice.
Since Japan is small, it's more homogeneous in terms of the disasters it can face, and the whole country can prepare accordingly. The United States is larger and faces a much wider variety of natural disasters, though each kind is generally limited to a local scale.
But, as I already said, it's impossible to prepare for everything, especially against Mother Nature.
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On a different note: The Prime Minister of Japan stated this was the most difficult crisis to deal with since WWII. So, this earthquake and the resulting tsunami have had an impact on Japan not seen since the war and the nuke bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Wasn't there a 7.9 earthquake off the Japan coast earlier this week also? Would this had been an aftershock to that one?
Foreshock
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Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning System (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU1bYspMyQw#)
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After a closer look at the measurements, the USGS and Japan's Meteorological Agency both officially put the Japan earthquake at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale. This means that it was the 4th largest earthquake recorded in the world since 1900.